I can not get Wheezy to work on Pi

I downloaded Wheezy and I used the Win32diskmanger and I see the file with a IMG extenstion on my SD card, but the Raspberry Pi just sits there and the green led does Not blink. Help, Thanks Jimmy

johnbeetem over 13 years ago

A good starting place is the RasPi Wiki Troubleshooting page: http://elinux.org/R-Pi_Troubleshooting
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Former Member over 13 years ago

If you can see the img file on the SD card then this is the problem. The img needs to be written to the SD card so that its contents (its basically a complete file system)are on the SD not the img file.

Have a look on the RPi forums & wiki for help on how to do this.
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GreenYamo over 13 years ago

Jimmy,

As above, if you can see the img file on your SD card, that is the reason for problems. See this guide on the Rpi site
http://elinux.org/RPi_Easy_SD_Card_Setup
To precis, download the image, stick the SD card in your pc, open Windisk imager, browse to the image file, select the correct disk to write to (Not your C drive) write the image out, put the card in the pi, things should start happening.
Steve
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Former Member over 13 years ago in reply to GreenYamo

Is there really nothing better than this win32diskimager available for windows ? The number of posts that are appearing where it seems to be the common denominator for a non-working Pi has me wondering if it isn't the biggest problem here.
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Former Member over 12 years ago

i'm haveing the same problum
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