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On 19/01/12 15:08, Gordon Henderson wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jan 2012, Rob Beard wrote: > >> Dunno how useful it'll be for Raspberry Pi but I guess it might help >> newbies out, although I'd say maybe a more newbie friendly distro >> might be a better option for complete newbies. > > What I suspect might happen (hope?) is that someone (some ones) put > together a distro (hopefully based on an exnsting one) and provide it > as an sdcard image... So get your R-Pi, download 128MB of sdcard image > (compressed!), expand and write it to the sdcard plugged into your > usb-multi card device, plug sdcard into R-Pi and off you go. > > I'd also like to think I can put in a blank sdcard, connect up a USB > cd-rom (& keyboard) and Ethernet and boot it off CD directly into a > netinst debian arm and off I go... But I've no idea how the SoC "bios" > works - e.g. if it'll allow that sort of thing. > > Maybe I'll read a bit more on it... > > Gordon > Yeah, they will supply the OS on SD card, i think either Fedora or Debian. Not sure about cd support but it has USB so that should i guess work with external cd devices, Model B comes with ethernet so I guess that works with netinst, Paul -- -- http://www.zleap.net http://www.ubuntu.com skype : psutton111 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq