Mahjongg, its working! I used the check sum and sure enough the image was corrupted. Downloaded again this time using the HTLM link, re imaged the card and it booted to the desktop without any incident. I used your sudo shutdown cmd and it shut down, rebooting without any problem. All the expected i...

Mahjongg, thanks for taking the time to reply. I had no idea about the sensitivity of the shutdown procedure for the first few boots. Once i get this sorted I'll run the sudo cmd as you suggest; thanks for sharing the sudo cmd lines. I just assumed that downloaded OS was compressed (I have little ex...

I've noticed what may be an associated problem with respect to my SD card. I'm using an 8 GB card but after imaging the card it only shows up as 56 MB! I tried reformatting (back on the pc) but it will only reformatt to 56MB. Have I just turned an 8GB card into a 56MB card (please tell me its recove...

Thanks mahjongg, I'll explore that today. Starting to wish I had bought one of the preloaded cards now.

Genius, Tanks for the prompt reply. I followed your advice, this time used a torrent download manager (UTorrent) and I've now got it booting up to the white desktop screen with the raspberry logo. However there are no icons or menu command on the desktop. If I right click on the mouse I have some op...

Hello, I'm a new user (not very knowledgable) and having problems with the initial setup. I've imaged Wheesy (used the win 32 Disc Imager utility) but the boot sequence hangs with teh following message " Authentication Failure Respawning Too Fast restart in 5 minutes". After 5 minutes it tries to bo...