Use Win32DiskImager to write Debian image to SD Card

[Tass]

While there seem to be a lot of scattered topics on this issue (with varied results), I figured I'd create a tutorial with screenshots (hey, it passes the time - next week's a LONG way away!)

http://db.tt/rErZaVsX

[Vindicator]

Good job this will definitely help those who are not fluent in Linux.

This is How I did mine and my brother, Way easier than trying to get Windd to recognize my SD cards Etc.

[Dinosaur]

Thanks for this. Very useful and it worked.

Only confusion was the instruction to install Win32DiskImager when all that it needed was unzipping.

[Tass]

Dinosaur said:

Only confusion was the instruction to install Win32DiskImager when all that it needed was unzipping. 

Ah, right, I'll correct that - thanks!

[Miskatonic]

Successfully built the image from Windows Vista at work!

[MattHawkinsUK]

I created a quick HTML tutorial because I want people to have an easy method of creating SD cards.

Writing Images to SD Card for the Raspberry PI

http://www.mattsbits.co.uk/item-158.html


Worked ok on Windows 7 64-bit.

I'm aiming to cover basic stuff in additional tutorials and leave the more advanced topics to other people. Some of the forum threads are a little scary for people new to Linux. No school kid is going to experience a "BBC micro" moment if they have to create a VM, install Linux and work out the DD command line.

[Tass]

Nice work.  Re the DD method, it's actually not as hard as I'd initially thought, all done on Windows using the command line.  Davespice has done a nice tuturial - link at the bottom of this post:

http://www.raspberrypi.org/for.....to-sd-card

[Clair]

Tass said:


While there seem to be a lot of scattered topics on this issue (with varied results), I figured I'd create a tutorial with screenshots (hey, it passes the time - next week's a LONG way away!)

http://db.tt/rErZaVsX



I cannot tell you how much I thank you for this wonderful, clear direction for something that was driving me absolutely nuts! Worked like a charm.

[Kernel]

MattHawkinsUK said:


I created a quick HTML tutorial because I want people to have an easy method of creating SD cards.

Writing Images to SD Card for the Raspberry PI

http://www.mattsbits.co.uk/item-158.html

Worked ok on Windows 7 64-bit.


Also tried this on Win 7 64bit:

I get this error when starting it up but it seems to work fine:



Loading Fedora Remix:



It then shows this:



I clicked Yes and then it starts:



Once done:



In windows explorer:





disk management:



Edit: just noticed that Tass has also done a tutorial with screenshots – sorry didn't notice before – very nice work

Mine is the same aswell except it shows Fedora Remix rather than Debian

The list of files you should see is:



(copied from another post hence it says G: not F:)

[polskamafia_mjl]

Has anyone experienced problems with their laptop SD card readers? MattsBits says a stand alone reader might be necessary because certain laptop readers don't work well. Is there anyway to test this/is there a list of known laptops with bad SD card readers? I've tried flashing two 4gig cards several times (using SD Formatter 3.1 to format the cards before each try) and I have had absolutely no luck.

[ashigupta]

Hi everyone...

I am trying to us qtonpi image on my rpi...bt unable to work on it.
can any one help me how to start with qt on raspberry pi.