It works now! It's a bit embarrassing but I still don't know what caused the problem, since I did it exactly the same as before. I suspect that something went wrong while downloading the file, I haven't checked the MD5 checksum. This is very unlikely but I don't have a better explanation why it didn...

Well, thanks for all the help, but I'd rather understand the issue than work around it by buying various new things.

Hi Thanks for the help. I have only one SD card and it's a new one, so I don't think that's the issue here. And after destroying partition table and master boot record (not sure if both was needed), I can easily mount it again. I will test it with another SD card if I find a cheap one. I'm not sure ...

Hi I try to do a headless setup of a Raspberry pi from an Archlinux machine. I downloaded the Raspbian image from the official website and use this command dd bs=4M if=2015-05-05-raspbian-wheezy.img of=/dev/sdc That seems to work fine, at least it takes a while and the SD card blinks as if data is w...