Re: [Dorset] Using DD to write image file for R-pi problems

2016-02-12 Thread Peter Merchant
On 11/02/16 18:04, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Peter, Neil wrote: sudo dd bs=1M if=./2016-02-03-raspbian-jessie.img of=/dev/sdb1 Dump the image to the device root /dev/sdb not sdb1 Yes, as described: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/installation/installing-images/linux.md It's a disk

Re: [Dorset] Using DD to write image file for R-pi problems

2016-02-12 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Peter, > I used gparted first to clean out all partitions and leave them blank. A disk is logically just a sequence of bytes. It's convention that some at the beginning are used to "partition" the remainder, like the contents page of a book. Since the image you're copying onto these disks