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On Thu, 28 Mar 2013, JOHN DAVEY wrote:
Hi, as you all know I'm having problems with my Pi. Currently Ihave a PC working and am trying to download a decent copy of debian Wheezy that I am going to fix and reinstall onto my pi. The problem now is I cant download a decent image od Debian Wheezy. I have tried four or five times but every time I try to extract the image I'm told it's not a valid image if debian wheezy.What am I doing wrong?
You download the image. Go here and click on the direct download link. http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads It's currently called: 2013-02-09-wheezy-raspbian.zip If you want to verify it, then run: sha1sum 2013-02-09-wheezy-raspbian.zip And compare the result with the website. It's currently: b4375dc9d140e6e48e0406f96dead3601fac6c81 You unzip the image. This gives you the following file: 2013-02-09-wheezy-raspbian.img it's just under 2GB, so make sure you have the disk space. You copy this image in one piece to an SD card.So plug the SD card into your PC - it will come up as either /dev/mmcblk0 or it might come up as /dev/sdb if it's in a USB reader. (do check, but you're obviously done this before)
dd if=2013-02-09-wheezy-raspbian.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 bx=1M obviously the of= thingy will be whatever device you have. When it finishes type sync pop the card out of the PC and into the Pi and turn it on. Gordon
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