[ARMedslack] Raspberry-Pi sanity check

Yigit Turgut y.turgut at gmail.com
Mon Sep 30 18:50:08 UTC 2013


You post feels like installing windows xp and/thus doesn't prove that you
are sane.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sane

I think it would be better if you could give instructions to get
slackarm-current from official source,burn to card,boot up (the whole
procedure....) - like fatdog.







On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 12:20 AM, stanley garvey
<stanley at stanleygarvey.com>wrote:

> Okay, Just to check I am sane I will now demonstrate how to install an
> image to SDHC card, there will be no camera tricks or fudges:
> As root:
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> bash-4.2# cd /home/stanley
> bash-4.2# mkdir sanity-check
> bash-4.2# cd sanity-check
> bash-4.2# wget
> http://stanleygarvey.com/slackwarearm_rpi/slackwarearm-14.0-8GB-20130623.zip
> --2013-09-27 20:26:42--
> http://stanleygarvey.com/slackwarearm_rpi/slackwarearm-14.0-8GB-20130623.zip
> Resolving stanleygarvey.com (stanleygarvey.com)... 46.30.211.48
> Connecting to stanleygarvey.com (stanleygarvey.com)|46.30.211.48|:80...
> connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> Length: 1632447253 (1.5G) [application/zip]
> Saving to: 'slackwarearm-14.0-8GB-20130623.zip'
>
> 100%[====================================>] 1,632,447,253 7.43MB/s   in 3m
> 36s
>
> 2013-09-27 20:30:47 (7.22 MB/s) - 'slackwarearm-14.0-8GB-20130623.zip'
> saved [1632447253/1632447253]
> bash-4.2# unzip slackwarearm-14.0-8GB-20130623.zip
> Archive:  slackwarearm-14.0-8GB-20130623.zip
>   inflating: slackwarearm-14.0-8GB-20130623.img
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Just for good measure
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> bash-4.2# md5sum slackwarearm-14.0-8GB-20130623.img
> b96fbb397ce028af8cc257b5b5c4f443  slackwarearm-14.0-8GB-20130623.img
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Now I insert an SDHC 8GB card, on this system. I have 1 hard
> drive(/dev/sda) and one USB Drive(dev/sdb)
> the SDHC card becomes /dev/sdc
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> bash-4.2# dd if=slackwarearm-14.0-8GB-20130623.img of=/dev/sdc bs=65536
> 123056+0 records in
> 123056+0 records out
> 8064598016 bytes (8.1 GB) copied, 1856 s, 4.3 MB/s
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Well that took a while! Now I pop the SDHC card into a random Raspberry
> Pi  and boot and ... Er ..it just boots up.
>
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