Can I run Wheezy Virtually in Windows from my sd card?

[RoyceNZ]

Just while I am setting stuff up I would prefer to be able to load the os on the sd card in windows on my laptop, install the things I need etc and then put the sd card in my rpi ready to go with everything it needs with out it needing to access the net. I've been hunting around the net for a while but I am having issues finding exactly what I need.

I want to install the rpi version of minecraft onto the sd card so I dont have to set up my rpi on the net. Essentially I want to pre load minecraft into the wheezy os as another app ready to go. Could someone help me out here please? I am willing to invest alot of time learning what I need to if needs be,

Cheers

[paulie]

Is this thread what you are looking for?

http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewt ... hilit=Qemu

[simplesi]

Maybe the installer script type method would be enough for you?

You basically create a self-running/unzipping file that runs, unpacks a load of files to a temp directory, runs the application installer from the temp directory and then deletes the temp directory

You then pre-load this self-installer into the FAT partition from Windows and simply run it by typing ./boot/myscript.sh from a terminal window on your RPi.

I used these instructions for my Samba GPIO setup
http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1005818

But maybe you want something else?

Simon

[sdjf]

Another approach is to download the apps you want with your Windows computer, and then transfer them, along with their dependencies, to media readable by your Pi, and let the Pi do the installation offline. We can do it in Arch, and I recall there is also a thread mentioning how to do it with apt-get on Raspbian/Wheezy. I feel like I have more control of things that way, the issue would be you might have to go back to the net with your main PC to fetch dependencies.