TomAmes wrote: > Thanks guys. I am up and running! > > Thank you particularly for the link for the SD formatter as Windows was > giving me error messages and not allowing me to format "normally." And > thanks to both of you for steering me to an SD card problem rather than > a networking one. > > Solution (imo): When I burned the image to the SD card (G: drive, for > me), after it completed successfully I got a pop-up that informed me > that Drive H could not be used successfully unless it was formatted, so > I hit "OK". This apparently created a small USB drive partition on the > SD card which was totally unexpected. The third time I burned an image I > removed the SD card without hitting OK to format the H: drive. > > I guess that was idiosyncratic to my machine or something. Sorry, I did > not check to see if there is now a USB H: drive partition on the > successful image. If it could be useful to know for future > trouble-shooting I could do that if anyone wants. If the creation of an > extra drive on the SD card is an expected occurrence, a notation should > probably be added somewhere. > > edit: I did also tick the Checksum box, but did not do anything else > differently than the above, so maybe that also made a difference??? > > Thanks again!
>From my experience you "never" need to format the SD card, and I have done hundreds of images. So you don't need SD formatter. If prompted by Windows to format a partition always say "no". The prompt to format on Windows only started for me sometime in the last year, never used to. I have used SD formatter only once when I have a corrupted SD card. Copying a pCP image should take about 10 seconds, so the whole process should take a minute or two. regards Greg ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Greg Erskine's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7403 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=107352 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
