SD card programing -

jd1008 jd1008 at gmail.com
Fri May 1 17:09:17 UTC 2015



On 05/01/2015 11:01 AM, Rick Stevens wrote:
> On 05/01/2015 08:38 AM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 01/05/15 11:10, Terry Polzin wrote:
>>> tail -f /var/log/messages with device un plugged and while plugging in
>>> you'll see the device get picked up if it's recognized.
>>>
>>
>> Ok, I found it, I didn't have the tiny device shoved into the adapter
>> far enough, a new experience for me.
>>
>> [bobg at box10 ~]$ journalctl -n 25
>>
>> ......  snip  ....
>> May 01 11:23:27 box10 NetworkManager[680]: <info> Connectivity check for
>> uri 'https://fedoraproject.org/static/hotspot.txt' failed with 'Peer
>> May 01 11:25:32 box10 kernel: sd 13:0:0:0: [sdd] 124735488 512-byte
>> logical blocks: (63.8 GB/59.4 GiB)
>> May 01 11:25:32 box10 kernel:  sdd: sdd1
>>
>> [root at box10 ~]# fdisk /dev/sdd
>>
>> Disk /dev/sdd: 59.5 GiB, 63864569856 bytes, 124735488 sectors
>> Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
>> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
>> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
>> Disklabel type: dos
>> Disk identifier: 0x00000000
>>
>> Device     Boot Start       End   Sectors  Size Id Type
>> /dev/sdd1       32768 124735487 124702720 59.5G  7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
>>
>> I wont be able to get back to this until later but it looks as though I
>> simply need to install the Pidora system to it?
>
> Yup. Essentially:
>
>     dd if=/path/to/pidora.iso of=/dev/sdd bs=1M
>
> Note the "of=/dev/sdd" (the ENTIRE disk), NOT "of=/dev/sdd1" (a
> partition). You want to whack the entire MicroSD.
Every solution has it's drawbacks.
After the dd  is finished, fedora will detect it as an optical medium.
That's what happened to me :)
I was not even able to make use of the flash stick as an ordinary
partitionable device.



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