sd card

[noob]

i'm just starting with the whole proggramming thing and i don't know how it works, i try to write the wheezy raspian .img to an sd card using dd but every time i open dd a batch file starts for one second and disapears, i have no idea how to make it work, or is this the way it should?

[boyoh]

Try downloading BerryBoot v1.09- bootloader /universal operating system installer.
Windows will un-zip this to a 4GB SD card. Put the card in your" raspberrypi" and download
Debian Wheezy Raspberry 2012.09 from the internet using a 8GB SD card ,using a card reader in a USB port on your "raspberrypi " .You might have to leave both cards in your raspberrypi
for the Program to work ( I did ) Best of luck " BoyOh "

[toysareforboys]

Got a friend with a Windows laptop? Most of them have built in SD card readers. Super easy to write the .img to your SD card with http://launchpad.net/win32-image-writer/+download

-Jamie M.

[noob]

@boyoh does it work with 2gb cards too?

[boyoh]

Noob , you might be pushing your luck using a 2Gb SD card'
I'm using a 4Gb SD card , with the BerryBoot program on in the card slot on RaspberyPI
I'm using a 8Gb SD card with the Debian Wheezy Raspbian program on, using a USB SD
card reader in a USB port on the RaspberryPI. ( RaspberryPI recomend 4Gb or bigger)

BoyOh

[toysareforboys]

@boyoh does it work with 2gb cards too?

Berryboot works sweet on a 2gb SD card. I ran it on a 1gb SD card and installed the super tiny webserver program, worked great, SUPER fast!!! I'm going to put in my brand new "Fastest SD card on earth" and install Wheezy with Pancake + PHP for the webserver part and Citadel for the e-mail side

Love this Pi.

-Jamie M.

[noob]

i used the berry boot, it runs open elec great but raspbian still doesnt work, i can type my login name but not my password

[itimpi]

i used the berry boot, it runs open elec great but raspbian still doesnt work, i can type my login name but not my password

I assume you know that nothing is displayed when you type in your password (this is standard on Unix/Linux systems)? You have to type it blind and press enter.