i swear i replied to this post last night saying that the camera trick worked. maybe i forgot to hit submit? anyway, YES!!! the camera trick worked. thanks for the tip!!

i did check the sticky titles, and if there was one for this subject, the thread title was not self explanatory enough for me ( a complete beginner to pi) to recognize it. im trying not to be that annoying noob that asks the same shit over and over. so, this sd card is ONLY this one os from now on, ...

back story: as per my other post, i finally got raspbian written to my 8gb sd card. i got my hdmi cable and hooked it to the tv. it booted up, everything worked. life is good, right?? well...... so today i also got in my tft touchscreen i bought off ebay. plugs into the gpio pins. plugged it in and ...

..now that the problem i had in my op is solved[/i], an sd card with raspbian on it Actually your problem is not solved until you see your RPi boot from that card. :) Hopefully you will but don't count your chickens until they are hatched. lol, im feeling positive about this now, dont jinx me!!!! :...

and yes, i know a *can* run the pi without most of that stuff in "headless mode" and try it now, but again, im new to this, and the whole process of having the screen and keyboard on it seems much easier and more intuitive to me, so i will wait.

thanks guys!!! (and maybe girls, idk) the win32 app worked just like fedora *should have*. very simple and i am currently writing to my sd card (albeit very slowly) so all is well so far. again, many thanks! sean Well confusion reigns you clearly wrote in response earlier i have pi 1 B+, but at thi...

thanks guys!!! (and maybe girls, idk) the win32 app worked just like fedora *should have*. very simple and i am currently writing to my sd card (albeit very slowly) so all is well so far.

again, many thanks!
sean

im just trying to get raspbian wheezy onto an sd card I wonder why this was posted in the "Pidora / Fedora" section of the forums? I second the recommendation to follow the Raspberry Pi Foundation documentation. because my problem is getting fedora to work. it will not burn the image file to my sd ...

i have pi 1 B+, but at this point, its irrelevant. i havent even touched it yet. im just trying to get raspbian wheezy onto an sd card to put into it. thats where im stuck.

im using vista. all the tutorials say that 7 and up have built in utilities for making the card, i dont. i downloaded "fedora arm installer 2" to do this. i run the program, but as soon as i start it, i get a dos type window opening up and windows asking me for permission to run "diskpart", when the...