help please - copy NOOBS to another card

[aaronmatt]

i have limited broadband and a preloaded noobs s.d card and a new one i need to transfer the noobs to the new SD but it boots up fine but when noobs is on it says no space have i done something wrong

[aaronmatt]

i need a reply in the next 20 minutes will pay if needed

[DirkS]

First you have to make it clear what you actually want to do / are doing.
Do you want to copy a Noobs ibstall from one SD card to another?
If yes, what have you done so far (using what software)?

[aaronmatt]

i copied it straight from the preinstalled one (after formating new one)to the new one and it did exactly the same as preinstalled one except when i tryed to boot it it said i have o space on the card and when i checked it on my laptop i had 7 gb of space left

[aaronmatt]

15 mins left please reply quick

[aaronmatt]

back soon

[DougieLawson]

Can you start by reading http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewt ... 28&t=58151
Then take a look at: http://www.raspberrypi.org/help/noobs-setup/

You're probably going to have to download a 738,376,500 byte ZIP file to get your system going.

Where in the World are you?

[DirkS]

i copied it straight from the preinstalled one

You probably only copied the first partition (using windows copy).
You will need to use e.g. windiskimager to make a complete image of the original card and then use the same program to write that image to the new card.
Even then you could run into problems. Not every xGB card is exacly xGB. If the new card is a little bit smaller (normal with SD cards) then it will fail too.
If you're lucky the new one is the same size or slightly larger...

BTW: you will net get this done in the remaining 10 minutes...

Info on windiskimager: http://www.raspberrypi.org/documentatio ... windows.md

[jamesh]

15 mins left please reply quick

Giving people time limits is not likely to result in anything happening more quickly. People here are volunteers, and technical support is not a timed issue. They also have their own schedules to keep to.

[DougieLawson]

i need a reply in the next 20 minutes will pay if needed

We're out of time (by 25 minutes) on your 20:59 posting. I guess you'll be back tomorrow.

[aaronmatt]

sorry what i meant is until my dad makes me get of the wifi sorry for any misunderstandings

[aaronmatt]

[/quote]Where in the World are you?[/quote]
the island of st helena in the middle of the south atlantic

[jamesh]

Have you sorted out the problem?

[aaronmatt]

no but i would just get another preinstalled one but it takes 5 months minimum to get here seen as weonly have a ship

[aaronmatt]

by the way the new one it is a kingston 8 gigabytes class four micro sd card

[DougieLawson]

Start downloading the zipfile from http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/NOOBS_latest

[aaronmatt]

i also cant download windiskmanager seen as it uses allot of internet

[aaronmatt]

how much internet is it because i need alot to skype my family back in scotland

[aaronmatt]

so is there any way to transferr it without internet

[DougieLawson]

so is there any way to transferr it without internet

Send me a tenner by Paypal and I'll send you one by snail mail.

[rpdom]

so is there any way to transferr it without internet

Send me a tenner by Paypal and I'll send you one by snail mail.

i would just get another preinstalled one but it takes 5 months minimum to get here seen as weonly have a ship

[aaronmatt]

remember thats the whole point im on here it takes 5 months

[Joe Schmoe]

so is there any way to transferr it without internet

Send me a tenner by Paypal and I'll send you one by snail mail.

i would just get another preinstalled one but it takes 5 months minimum to get here seen as weonly have a ship

Yeah, I was gonna comment in that vein as well - something to the effect that he'd get it around June (winter there).

But when you get down to it, it's unlikely that he's really located in St. Helena anyway. Sounds like a trolling to me.

As an aside, another board that I am on has the feature that your profile screen displays the flag of the country you picked as being where you are from. It turns out that "Reunion" (a tiny rock in the Indian ocean that has the distinction of being the easternmost point in Europe - because it is technically part of France) has a very pretty flag and is thus a popular choice of people's country on this board. It is said that there are more people claiming to be from Reunion on this particular (rather obscure - not any mainstream board that anyone here is likely to have heard of) board than there are actual people living on Reunion. (heh heh)

I suspect the same applies to St. Helena (which is most famous as being one of the places to which Napoleon was exiled).

[aaronmatt]

believe me i am in st helena ask me any questions

[aaronmatt]

our current govener is mark capes and the solicoter general is morag stevenson who also happens to be my mum