SD write problem

[Bassbone83]

Hello All,

I am a newbie to any sort of programming or in depth computer work, but I'm very excited to dive head first into this. That being said, I'm have trouble already I'm on a Mac, downloaded RPi-sd card builder and the wheezy raspbian.img, unzipped the .img but when I go to move it onto my SD I get the error:
"work flow has stopped because an error occurred while converting the data"

So. Here is what i'm working with

Using a micro SD card in a full size SD converter....in a usb card reader. Too many converters?

The micro sd is a class 4, and was formatted in MS

Running OS X 10.5.8 currently (older OS)

If there is any other relevant data you need to help me, let me know.

Thanks for your help and patience. I'm excited to learn a lot and see what this little machine can do.

Thanks,
Adam

[Bassbone83]

Update,

Purchased a class 4 standard size sd, plugged in using my usb card reader and!.........same error message

bump for some help

Thanks,
Adam

[DBryant]

How are you moving the img file to the SD card?

It is *not* a file cp or mv but has to be a binary move used a utility dd as in:
dd bs=4M if=~/2012-12-16-wheezy-raspbian.img of=/dev/sdd

http://elinux.org/RPi_Easy_SD_Card_Setup includes MacOS tools to do the job.

Hope this helps

[Jim JKla]

It has been reported that USB SD card writers work better than in built SD card slots (go figure).

There is the posibility you have a bad image download that is uknlikely given that the unzip worked.