Install woes: back to CLI ...

[Fester Bestertester]

Probably a newbie issue. Downloaded latest Raspbian (2017-01-11). Last Install README said "unzip to card". OK, 15GB card - check. Kubuntu's Partition Manger Formatted fat32 - check. Unzip with ark, no containing folder - check.
Fail to boot. Unzip to folder, copy (.img - ?) to card -no, that's not right. Startup Disk Creator writes .img files,so ...
No boot. Back to Command-line:
~...$ sudo dd bs=4M if=2017-01-11-raspbian-jessie.img of=/dev/sdb
1042+1 records in
1042+1 records out
4371513344 bytes (4.4 GB, 4.1 GiB) copied, 320.641 s, 13.6 MB/s
SUCCESS!
May need better README? YMMV

[fruitoftheloom]

Probably a newbie issue. Downloaded latest Raspbian (2017-01-11). Last Install README said "unzip to card". OK, 15GB card - check. Kubuntu's Partition Manger Formatted fat32 - check. Unzip with ark, no containing folder - check.
Fail to boot. Unzip to folder, copy (.img - ?) to card -no, that's not right. Startup Disk Creator writes .img files,so ...
No boot. Back to Command-line:
~...$ sudo dd bs=4M if=2017-01-11-raspbian-jessie.img of=/dev/sdb
1042+1 records in
1042+1 records out
4371513344 bytes (4.4 GB, 4.1 GiB) copied, 320.641 s, 13.6 MB/s
SUCCESS!
May need better README? YMMV

The latest Raspbian Jessie with Pixel is a .ZIP which when unpacked is an .IMG file:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentati ... /README.md

Writing an IMG to a SD Card removes all previous data / formatting so have no idea why you a messing around with formatting etc..

[Fester Bestertester]

Old post, resuming:
You: "Writing an IMG to a SD Card removes all previous data / formatting so have no idea why you a messing around with formatting etc.."

finding out that it was irrelevant because
Me: "Startup Disk Creator writes .img files,so ..."

Please READ MY POSTS before knee-jerk reacting. Startup Disk Creator is not a Raspbian app, and a Pi does not write cards, ipso facto it was run on another system that did - in my case my Kubuntu desktop 'workhorse'.

"... No boot. Back to Command-line:

~...$ sudo dd bs=4M if=2017-01-11-raspbian-jessie.img of=/dev/sdb
1042+1 records in
1042+1 records out
4371513344 bytes (4.4 GB, 4.1 GiB) copied, 320.641 s, 13.6 MB/s
SUCCESS!"

'nuff sed?

[fruitoftheloom]

FYI Etcher can undertake the require steps of unpacking the Jessie .zip and write the .IMG file:

https://etcher.io