On 18/05/15 09:28, Dave Ihnat wrote:
Sorry I was buried in work while this thread was playing out--I could have
suggested you just run "fdisk" on it and delete all the partitions.
However, I can add something else here--be careful with SD cards and
capacity. While building up a bunch of Raspberry Pi 2 Model B 1GB cards
for internet kiosks and slideshow kiosks, I found that "8GB isn't 8GB the
world 'round". Essentially, even from brand-name manufacturers, an 8GB--or
16, 32, 64, etc.--card from one manufacturer will differ in size. In my
case, an EMTEC Gold 8GB card was some 200MB smaller than a Kingston 8GB
card.
200MB, you say; no big deal. EXCEPT all the tools to manipulate SD cards
deal with raw capacity when imaging/copying. Meaning if the destination
card is even 200MB smaller, you likely end up with a corrupted filesystem.
It should be hit-or-miss, depending on used space, but at least on the RPi
with Raspbian (a Debian fork), it _always_ was broken.
(Because of this, I became too familiar with fdisk, gparted, etc.)
G'luck,
--
Dave Ihnat
dihnat@xxxxxxxxxx
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I will watch for this. The two I have are Sandisk [16 and 64GB] and I
imagine they are reputable. I just ordered 5 more "Team 16GB microSDHC
Flash Card (Card Only) Model TG016G0MC28X" that Newegg has on sale, I
don't know about them but it would be convenient not to have to wait
while writing zeros to clear one.
Today's problem: I've installed Fedora-21 Minimal on the Raspberry Pi 2
b, that comes without an X display. After a lot of googling and trying
what others suggested, something called "openbox" among other things, I
can startxfce4 after logging in as bobg, the graphic login screen comes
up but I loose keyboard and mouse control. Any suggestions on
troubleshooting that will be appreciated.
It's a secondary problem since normally I access it via ssh from this
computer and where I prefer the display, have the xfce set-up screen,
xfce4-terminal, even Firefox. It all works better than I expected, at
least the parts that are included in this install.
But I would like to fix the mouse and keyboard problem.
Thanks,
Bob
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Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD
box10 FEDORA-22b/64bit LINUX XFCE
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