On Tuesday 17 September 2019 15:07:30 ghe wrote: > On 9/17/19 11:01 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > And that results in exactly the same effect, partitiuon 1 is an > > iso9660 image, and I don't believe the rpi-3b supports that for a > > boot medium. dos/fat32 only I believe. Obviously I got those images > > from the wrong place in the debian file system. So I need to remove > > these, but where do I get the correct versions? > > From https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/ ? > > Use the damn NOOBS and quit fighting with your Pi(s)! NOOBS takes a > while, and it doesn't install things the way you want them to be, but > it does work -- you end up looking at a working Buster desktop. No > confusion or cardio stress involved. > > There are a lot of recipes on the web to make things all better. And > 'rm' works pretty well, too.
I'd luv to give it a try, since I've never tried it, but unpacking the NOOBS to an sd card seems to be a secret, so what linux command will unpack the .zip and put it on the card? Thanks. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>