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On 28 Mar 2013, at 14:04, Gordon Henderson <gordon+lug@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 28 Mar 2013, JOHN DAVEY wrote: > >> Hi, as you all know I'm having problems with my Pi. Currently I >> have a PC working and am trying to download a decent copy of debian Wheezy >> that I am going to fix and reinstall onto my pi. The problem now is I cant >> download a decent image od Debian Wheezy. I have tried four or five times but >> every time I try to extract the image I'm told it's not a valid image if debian >> wheezy. >> What am I doing wrong? > > You download the image. > > Go here and click on the direct download link. > > http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads > > It's currently called: 2013-02-09-wheezy-raspbian.zip > > If you want to verify it, then run: > > sha1sum 2013-02-09-wheezy-raspbian.zip > > And compare the result with the website. It's currently: > > b4375dc9d140e6e48e0406f96dead3601fac6c81 > > > You unzip the image. > > This gives you the following file: > > 2013-02-09-wheezy-raspbian.img > > it's just under 2GB, so make sure you have the disk space. > > You copy this image in one piece to an SD card. > > So plug the SD card into your PC - it will come up as either /dev/mmcblk0 or it > might come up as /dev/sdb if it's in a USB reader. (do check, but you're obviously > done this before) > > dd if=2013-02-09-wheezy-raspbian.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 bx=1M > > obviously the of= thingy will be whatever device you have. > > When it finishes type > > sync > > pop the card out of the PC and into the Pi and turn it on. > Thanks Gordon. That is possibly the simplest set of instructions I've read. Kind regards ðRichard Brown ðhttp://wild-woods.org.uk/ â07747 343637 ð@TheStreetYouth -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq