Increasing Partition Size

[donrecardo]

Hi, Still waiting for my Pi to arrive . hile waiting i followed Liams tutorial to get my SD card ready

I used the Fedora Loader and it went fine , Liam explained that the first time I run it the partioon will

enlarge to use all available space , great!.

But now the web site reccomends I dont use Fedora but use Debian instead.

I think I follow ok how to write Debian to the card using windows , but how can I increase the partion size ( on a windows PC ) I dont have a box running linux ?

Don

[jojopi]

donrecardo said:

I think I follow ok how to write Debian to the card using windows , but how can I increase the partion size ( on a windows PC ) I dont have a box running linux ?
Liam's video "Preparing for Pi - Using Full SD card capacity (Resizing Partitions In GParted)" gives a method for resizing the Debian-based image on Windows.

You can also wait for the Pi and then you will have a box running Linux...

[andri]

donrecardo said:


I think I follow ok how to write Debian to the card using windows , but how can I increase the partion size ( on a windows PC ) I dont have a box running linux ?

Don


Ever try Live CD or Live USB?

The best part of linux is you can boot it from CD or USB (without instal to harddisk).

Just burn Linux .ISO to CD or instal to USB Flashdisk use Unetbootin.

[donrecardo]

Stef said:


Ever try Live CD or Live USB?

The best part of linux is you can boot it from CD or USB (without instal to harddisk).

Just burn Linux .ISO to CD or instal to USB Flashdisk use Unetbootin.


Hi and thanks for the reply

I went and followed Liams advice on Gparted . Burned it to a disk and booted from that.

All was going well, it asked what language to run in and I accepted the default , same with the next question , but then my PC just sits there with a black screen . After 5 mins of nothing happening I shut down and tried again but got the same results

Don

[donrecardo]

Thats strange . I had been trying on my laptop with Win7 so

I just put the cd into my other PC also with win7 and it booted fine

[abishur]

There was probably a piece of the hardware on the laptop that was making it fuss.  I know I have a hard time with the integrated graphics chip on one of my laptops

[donrecardo]

I had another play with the laptop.

Its a vaio and has an HDMI and a VGA output for external monitor. I had an HDMI to

DVI connector between the laptop and the external monitor and once I unplugged it the Gparted disk load fine

My SD card is now loaded with Debian and opened up to the full size partition.

I just need my Raspi now

Thanks everyone for the help

Don

[rick_2k]

I went down the Gparted Live CD route to resize my debian partition. Works fine now and i expanded it to use the full size of the SD card.

If like me you use a Macbook Pro with nvidia graphics i had to start it with the nouveau.modeset =0 flag incase anyone gets the hanging problem like me.

[TonyD]

Did the same, except I installed Linux onto a virtual machine (vmware) I had on my PC. It took about 20-minutes to install Linux and 5-minutes to resize my 8G SD card.