On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 at 08:17, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > 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? Hi Gene, I suggest a first step is just get your Pi 4 running the simplest way possible. Just to see it working first before starting to customising it in any way. You don't need NOOBS, just Raspbian. Note: Raspbian is not Debian. Just do this: 1) get the zipped image $ curl -L -o raspbian_latest.zip downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian_latest 2) verify the download $ sha256sum raspbian_latest.zip 6a1a5f20329e580d5161a0255b3d4163db6f56c3997e1c3b36bdd51140bd768e 3) write the SD card (replace my /dev/sd_ with your SD card device, without any partition number): # unzip -p raspbian_latest.zip | dd bs=4M of=/dev/sd_ status=progress conv=fsync and that will produce a SD card that will boot a Raspberry Pi 4 hardware into a Raspbian desktop.
