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Can i use K3B to burn an image to a SD card? / [SOLVED]
« on: October 21, 2012, 08:50:01 PM »
i've gotten a Raspberry Pi in order to make a dual temperature logging, WiFi download setup for a solar hot water heater and in order to set up the Raspi and use it i need to burn a Linux image to a SD card.  

i've got the zip and have extracted the image and was wondering if i had to use the dd command or if i could just use our trusty K3B program.

Any ideas out there?

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Re: Can i use K3B to burn an image to a SD card?
« Reply #1 on: October 21, 2012, 09:38:07 PM »
if you use k3b to create a iso, it won't boot when you put it on a sd

you need to use liveusb tool to put that iso in the sd in a way it can boot, not just copy the iso that doesn't boot by itself

now, you mention a zip and that extracted a image, not sure what steps are those

raspberry pi is popular and there should be lots of manual on how to proceed to put a iso into the sd to make it boot, it uses only certain distros, not pclinux afik
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Re: Can i use K3B to burn an image to a SD card?
« Reply #2 on: October 21, 2012, 09:51:19 PM »
Burn an iso? I do is with K3b all the time... to CD's/DVD's  ;)

Never tried it with an SD Card, please report your findings  ;D
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Re: Can i use K3B to burn an image to a SD card?
« Reply #3 on: October 21, 2012, 10:11:34 PM »
Thanks, guys!  The image that was extracted from the zip file is:

2012-09-18-wheezy-raspbian.img

Can this just be burnt to the SD with K3b to produce a bootable SD card?  i've been looking over the posts on the Raspi boards and most have to do with Windows and the one that has to do with Linux says to use ImageWriter...

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Re: Can i use K3B to burn an image to a SD card?
« Reply #4 on: October 21, 2012, 10:28:54 PM »
Tried K3b, is not possible   :-\

What about UNetbootin?
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Re: Can i use K3B to burn an image to a SD card?
« Reply #5 on: October 21, 2012, 10:34:54 PM »
Quote from: frazelle09 on October 21, 2012, 10:11:34 PM
Thanks, guys!  The image that was extracted from the zip file is:

2012-09-18-wheezy-raspbian.img

Can this just be burnt to the SD with K3b to produce a bootable SD card?  i've been looking over the posts on the Raspi boards and most have to do with Windows and the one that has to do with Linux says to use ImageWriter...

Have a wonderful evening!  :)

K3B is for optical drives. The application best suited for your purpose would be dd.

[root@localhost <directory with the image>]# dd if=*.img of=/dev/sd<whatever> bs=4096                               <Enter>

Replace <whatever> with the correct letter designating the SD card.
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Re: Can i use K3B to burn an image to a SD card?
« Reply #6 on: October 22, 2012, 12:03:33 AM »
Thanks a million, guys!  That'll do it!

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Re: Can i use K3B to burn an image to a SD card? / [SOLVED]
« Reply #7 on: November 17, 2012, 12:07:38 AM »
O.k., i'm ready to burn it to the SD card but can't figure out the command which will give me the name or number or letter to use which indicates the disk.

Can i get a hint?

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Re: Can i use K3B to burn an image to a SD card? / [SOLVED]
« Reply #8 on: November 17, 2012, 12:16:12 AM »
Found it>  fdisk -l

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Re: Can i use K3B to burn an image to a SD card? / [SOLVED]
« Reply #9 on: November 17, 2012, 08:03:42 PM »
Well, next day... i'm still trying to figure out the letter of the SD card.  i ran the following...

dmesg | tail
iwlagn 0000:06:00.0: EVT_LOGT:2354906284:0x00000000:1352
iwlagn 0000:06:00.0: EVT_LOGT:2354906285:0x00000001:1353
iwlagn 0000:06:00.0: EVT_LOGT:2354906293:0x00000000:0125
usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio
tifm0 : demand removing card from socket 0:1
mmc0: card aaaa removed
tifm_core: MMC/SD card detected in socket 0:1
mmc0: new SDHC card at address aaaa
mmcblk0: mmc0:aaaa SD04G 3.69 GiB
 mmcblk0: p1

Can i use the "mmc0" as my drive letter?

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Re: Can i use K3B to burn an image to a SD card? / [SOLVED]
« Reply #10 on: November 17, 2012, 08:25:22 PM »
It also might be SD0

i tried that but got

dd if=2012-09-18-wheezy-raspbian.img of=/dev/sd0 bs=4096
dd: writing `/dev/sd0': No space left on device
321862+0 records in
321861+0 records out
1318342656 bytes (1.3 GB) copied, 22.3494 s, 59.0 MB/s

Am stumped.  Have a wonderful evening!  :)
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Re: Can i use K3B to burn an image to a SD card? / [SOLVED]
« Reply #11 on: November 17, 2012, 08:47:23 PM »
i found on the Raspi forum that i could use df -h command, which gave me the same /dev/mmcblk0p1 output.  So i used this and this time something was written...  However all of the directory and file names were not understandable, so i checked the forum again and found ImageWriter, which i dl from the repo and am now running it, although it, too, only recognizes /dev/mmcblk0p1...

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Re: Can i use K3B to burn an image to a SD card? / [SOLVED]
« Reply #12 on: November 17, 2012, 08:59:11 PM »
Bingo!  image was correctly written with ImageWriter!  Yea!!!

Now, to try it in my Raspi...

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