On 04/29/2015 07:46 AM, bobgoodwin@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I just received a Raspberry Pi 2b as a birthday gift. Apparently the operating system must be stored on an micro-SD card, the o/s can be downloaded but I have to get the SD card and whatever is required to program it from Fedora 21 or 22, or buy one preprogrammed. Perhaps someone with experience there can enlighten as to what I need to order to do this?
I have a Raspberry Pi (B+ model). I can give some ideas. 1. I bought micro SD cards that come with an adapter that converts micro SD to regular SD. I bought the fastest SDs I could find, but you can probably go slower/cheaper. 2. My laptop has an SD card slot on it, but I also have a USB card adapter (SD/MMC/others) that works just fine. About $15 US. 3. I've tried several OSes. The most common is Raspian (a Debian-based distro). I've also used OpenELEC (essentially a purpose-built media center package) and Pidora (a Fedora 20-based package). They all come as ISOs that you simply "dd" to the raw SD device (NOT a partition), e.g.: dd if=pidora.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=1M 4. Just plug the micro SD into the Pi and power it up. It should boot up to the desktop (Raspian and Pidora) or the media center (OpenELEC). Hope that helps. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - Politicians are the opposite of pickpockets because you never see - - them take their hand out of your pocket. - - -- Larry Fine - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
