Hi
I bought a 3.5 touchscreen for my Pi 2 B and I need to install the driver. The driver comes as a disk image and when I "burn" it to a sdcard it naturally takes up the whole card. If I boot up my Pi and switch cards to install the driver the Pi gets wonky because the operating system is no longer there. Not that any of that is going to help because I need the driver to be on the boot disk and start when fire up my Pi.
All suggestions thoughtful or dumb appreciated.
Folkhero
Re: Driver install
Did you actually remove the SD card while the Pi was running ?
Needless to say this is unwise , but is this really what
happened ? You post is not very clear.
ghans
Needless to say this is unwise , but is this really what
happened ? You post is not very clear.
ghans
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Re: Driver install
You might find the the "driver" card is in itself a complete (modified) Raspian. Try booting the Pi with it in the slot. Where did you buy it?
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Re: Driver install
Hi
I did try pulling the boot card while the Pi was running and replacing it with card I had burned the disk image to (That didn't work)
It won't boot off of the image card (So I'm guessing no OS there)
I'm wondering is it possible to burn an disk image to a thumb drive and install it that way. The way I understand it is the driver software needs to end up on the boot card.
Folkhero
I did try pulling the boot card while the Pi was running and replacing it with card I had burned the disk image to (That didn't work)
It won't boot off of the image card (So I'm guessing no OS there)
I'm wondering is it possible to burn an disk image to a thumb drive and install it that way. The way I understand it is the driver software needs to end up on the boot card.
Folkhero
Re: Driver install
Ask the vendor from whom you bought the screen for support with using their product?Folkhero wrote: All suggestions thoughtful or dumb appreciated.
If they can't/won't support their product, perhaps you should return it as 'not fit for purpose'?