Raspberry Pi just assembled

G'day Luc,

When I place the card in a Windows system I get the following:

'you need to format the disk in drive I: before you can use it'

Then upon cancelling that the following message appears;

' The volume does not contain a recognised file system. Please make sure that all required file system drivers are loaded and that the volume is not corrupted'

Thus I am unable to see what is on the card.

No green light whatsoever appears in any shape or form!!!

Thanks for your comment.

John

Hello John,

That sounds a lot to me like a corrupt image on the card - as Luc says above, you should be able to see a small partition on your Pc on the card, and the fact you are not getting the green light makes me think the Pi can't see the card either. I'd be tempted to either 1) Borrow an SD card from a friend, download an image from the Raspi.org's web site and try that http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads or use 2) the card you have already got and re-image that. Thing is, you have paid a premium to get the card with the image on it, and if re-imaging works, you have just performed the very job you paid the premium for :-( (And it will be difficult to say it doesn't work, when it does, if you see what I mean.

Borrowing a new card and seeing if that works with a fresh image is probably the way I would go, if that is OK is proves that the card is corrupt (and the other components are OK)

Steve

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?3nr88hap9wbl7ru

Previous link should get you the win32diskimager.

If you copy an image to the card, you should see the 75MB fat32 boot partition and it's files. It requires to remove the card and insert it again. You can only mount the second ext4 partition on a linux system.

Hi Luc ,I went to buy a 8gb card and found the cost was cheaper to get another with the OS system installed from the UK post free!!! So ordered that and already have been advised on its way. This will give me 2 copies hopefully!

However have since read Steve and your comments and have been able to download win32diskmanager from mediafire. So will now wait until the disks arrive, maybe next week sometime,but will at some stage write my own as want to  know how it is done, plus have the original disk to format.

Will keep you both informed and really appreciate very much indeed both your assistance.

Kind regards.

John

Hi John, glad to be of (a little) help, keep us posted on how things go :-)

win32diskmanager can also be used the other way around, to make a backup of the image of an sd card.

A few spare sd cards to experiment with are always usefull.

Just out of curiousity, don't you have a local supplier of those?

They are the same used in cellphones and digital cameras.

Maybe you don't live close to a town?

Yes we do have several local suppliers in and near the town but thought would be easier at the moment to get the OS already written so can spend a bit of time experimenting!!! We live in a place called Little Mountain which is just outside of Caloundra on the coast about  1 1/2 hours drive north of Brisbane in Quensland. great weather at the moment!!!!

John

HI Luc and Steve, Am writing this through Raspberry Pi !!!!! Took the bull by the horns this afternoon and downloaded wheezy-raspbian-zip and also how to make a disk image.Then formatted the disk that came wih the OS on and wrote to it and it worked!!!! Wonders will never cease!!!!!!! However the wireless keyboard and mouse I acquired for it does'nt like it very much despite changing a few things so hooked in the one from my laptop and worked without changing any thing!! So will now see what else goes on and does'nt work!!! Now the fun starts.

Catch up soon.

Kind regards, John

Still have 2 OS's coming so will try them out and could have a spare disk!!!

Great news John :-)

The Pi often doesn't seem to like wireless keyboards and mice, the current requirement for most of them seems too much.

Good luck and have fun.

Steve

Good to hear you are making progress.

Do a search for hexxeh rpi-update script and install it.

run a sudo rpi-update. It will bring your kernel to the latest version.

Some fixes are in it for usb issues like the one you see with your wireless keyboard. (no guarantee)

Basically, you can also run 'sudo apt-get upgrade' and 'sudo apt-get update'

You can run the 'uname -a' command to see what kernel you are running. It should be 3.2.27+ #xxx

Luc & Steve,

Thanks guys, I moved the Logitech keyboard and mouse from the laptop to the Pi and worked well straight off!! and the Microsoft one to the laptop and no problems!!!!! So all is well...Simple eh? Why? No idea!!!!!!!

Will folllow your suggestion up on the fixes thanks Luc.

Luc & Steve,

Thanks guys, I moved the Logitech keyboard and mouse from the laptop to the Pi and worked well straight off!! and the Microsoft one to the laptop and no problems!!!!! So all is well...Simple eh? Why? No idea!!!!!!!

Will folllow your suggestion up on the fixes thanks Luc.