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.
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.
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.
