Hi, I have just started to download its OS on another machine, is it really so that it takes more than 12hrs to download its operating software and if so is there anything that I should be aware off while downloading it.
Unless you have a dial up internet connection, it should download in a few of minutes. A projected time of 12 hours means you have either a dial up connection, a clogged up internet provider, or have connected to a swamped server. The download will likely fail. Try another download method...do you have a bittorrent client?
Yeah thanks for that. It was also my suspicion of my internet connection and after only downloading 3% in around 3hrs of the 8GB + of software of around 48KB per second, I decided to cancel the download. Although as a rule I don’t normally have any length of time issues when downloading any other type of software. Strange. - I don’t have “bittorrent client” installed, do you think that will help. I feel that there maybe something wrong with my downloading procedure that is causing this extremely slow-speed issue. Thanks for responding to my query.
Hi Steve and thanks, I did download this link raspberrypi-fedora-remix-14-r1.img.gz in which took only around 13 minutes to download, but in the end it came to “Windows can’t open file”, so I am now not sure in what is going on. - At this very moment in time I am a bit confused in what OS software I exactly need in conjunction with the Raspberry Pi and only hope that as time goes on my understanding will become much clearer with the functioning of this particular dev board.
Hi Steve and thanks, I did download this link raspberrypi-fedora-remix-14-r1.img.gz in which took only around 13 minutes to download, but in the end it came to “Windows can’t open file”, so I am now not sure in what is going on. - At this very moment in time I am a bit confused in what OS software I exactly need in conjunction with the Raspberry Pi and only hope that as time goes on my understanding will become much clearer with the functioning of this particular dev board.
See the part where it says 'Copying the image to an SD card on Windows'. You cannot directly use the downloaded file, you need to use the Win32DiskIamger Utility to write this file to an SD card, using the instructions I have linked to. Once you have done this, and it has worked successfully, you can insert the card into the Pi and it should boot from the SD card as expected.
Thanks coder27 for the download link suggestion and did download successfully but have absolutely no idea at this stage the connection with “Nero BackItUp & Burn Essentials/Nero Express" and Raspberry Pi dev board. I guess I was expecting some sort of Raspberry Pi GUI or IDE software.
Thanks Steve for the SD card link. Am I right in assuming that this is the Raspberry Pi bootloader card software that needs to be installed into the Raspberry Pi dev board before anything can be done with it. I am thinking of taking the "Safest/Laziest way” route on this one when available.
Hello Violin, yes, you are correct in that the card needs to be installed in the Pi for it to do anything useful, or in fact *anything*
From what I recall, there is a small amount of boot code on the Graphics chip, that then transfers control of the boot sequence to the SD card. From a PC perspective, you can think of the Bios as being the small boot code on the graphics chip, which then passes this work onto the hard drive, or in the case of the Pi, the SD Card.
You cannot plug a Pi into a TV or Monitor without following one of the guides above to prepare and write a boot image to the SD card. This is also a strength of the system, as you can configure multiple cards to perform multiple actions, for example have one card for Debian and another for openElec or XBMC, which will turn the card into a media server. These are just two examples out of many possible and I suspect that when the Pi is available on demand, these applications will soon multiply. It also means a resilient system and if anything goes wrong, just re-image the SD card and your back on the road again.
Thanks Steve. I am starting to get a much clearer picture of this “Raspberry Pi” dev board in which I have ordered but not really knowing what it is that I have really ordered and am waiting for with much anticipation. - The pre-programmed SD card is a “media image” card slotted into the Raspberry Pi and can be influenced by a mouse and/or a keyboard peripheral/s to a computer monitor – or TV.
- At the moment I am taking this posted link “debian6-19-04-2012.zip” as the software writer tool for SD media image card/s, but no media image software has been released as of yet so as to install/burn onto the SD card/s. The Raspberry Pi is a “stand-alone” development board without the requirement of a “PC” for any type operation, other than to write to the SD cards via download links, - hence the no need for any “PC” GUI or IDE, unlike what I am already used too with my long time prototyping with my type of dev boards via PCs. Please correct me if I am wrong with any of this. Thanks
The Rasp Pi is really a *very* small computer rather than a Dev board as such. The images used to boot are a port of Linux that is compiled to use the arm processor.
Software has been released to install onto the SD cards, if you see my thrid post down, there is a link to the downloads page of the Foundation (http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads. I think that you said you have already downlaoded one of those images. As Coder says above, you will probably have better luck with the Debian Squeeze download. Get that, use the Win32diskimager to write it to the card and you will be ready to go.
You are correct in that once you have used a PC to burn the image to the SD card, there is no further need for a PC. You do not 'talk' to the Pi via a GUI or IDE, you connect it to a monitor, keyboard and mouse and you can program it directly. This can be via the command line, or through a GUI.
Any Linux software that has been ported to use the arm processor you should also be able to use.
