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On 04/29/15 12:39, Rick Stevens wrote:
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.
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At this point everything helps!

I will start a new section in my notes and save this.

Thanks,

Bob

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