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MDanbury
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How do you boot an image

Sat Aug 13, 2016 12:55 pm

I want to use KIVY to develop a touch screen app. I have downloaded Kivypie and extracted a file which is an image. On the Kivy site it says a need to boot this, but I have no idea how to do that. Searching help isn't helpful as boot is a very common term! I have been a raspberry pi use for just two hours!
klricks
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Re: How do you boot an image

Sat Aug 13, 2016 4:22 pm

MDanbury wrote:I want to use KIVY to develop a touch screen app. I have downloaded Kivypie and extracted a file which is an image. On the Kivy site it says a need to boot this, but I have no idea how to do that. Searching help isn't helpful as boot is a very common term! I have been a raspberry pi use for just two hours!
You need to use a image writing utility such as Win32diskimager (Windows) or dd (Linux). The process is the same as is used to install official RPi OS images such as Raspbian. (Not using NOOBs method).
See this: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentati ... /README.md

Note: Do not use the forum search tool it's useless. Instead search with Google with raspberrypi.org included with your search terms.
Last edited by klricks on Sat Aug 13, 2016 4:47 pm, edited 2 times in total.
Unless specified otherwise my response is based on the latest and fully updated RPiOS Buster w/ Desktop OS.
tenochtitlanuk
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Re: How do you boot an image

Sat Aug 13, 2016 4:29 pm

Suggest you look at https://www.raspberrypi.org/learning/so ... uickstart/ and skip down the page to where it tells you how to copy an img file ( they are referring to the Raspbian image) onto an SD cart. Then just insert it in your Pi and away you go...
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