Putting RISC OS on SD card via Macbook Pro 10.7.4
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James (1591) 14 posts |
the pi is 100% working by the way, its just the SD card – now have fedoran working (sort of!)…. |
Andrew Daniel (376) 76 posts |
Sorry James but HardDisc4/util is NOT the RaspberryPI distro image you require. But is an archive of files generally used on various RISC OS systems. I’m sure someone more knowledgeable than I will be along soon to point you at the right image file! |
John K. (1549) 27 posts |
There is a link to the correct image here: This will download a ZIP file to your default downloads location (usually the “Downloads” folder inside your user directory). Once the file has downloaded, double click on it to decompress it. This may take a while and will create a file with an “img” extension in the same folder as the ZIP file. Now, let’s create an image: 1. Take your SD card and insert it into your card reader (either the internal one if you’ve got one, or an external one). The Mac will eventually notice it’s there and you should see an icon appear on your desktop. If no icon appears, open a Finder window and look in the side bar for one.
And press RETURN. 5. You will see a list of mounted drives and devices. Remember the name that is shown under the icon for your SD card in the Finder and on the desktop? Look for it in the list. Mine reads:
Make a note of the /dev/disk bit. This will probably be different for you, but it will start with “/dev/disk”; the number after “disk” may well be different. 5. At the Terminal prompt, type the following (again, no quotes) and press RETURN:
Replace the “/dev/disk4s1” bit with the appropriate value for your system. The drive icon will disappear from the desktop and the Finder sidebar. 6. Using the Finder, locate the folder where you downloaded the RISC OS image and decompressed it (where the “.img” file is). 7. Start typing the next command (don’t press RETURN just yet!):
Now drag the “.img” file to the Terminal window. This will insert the file name for you. Finish off the command:
There should be a space before “of=”. Note that the “/dev/” bit is slightly different – “/dev/rdisk4”, not “/dev/disk4s1”. This will write to the entire SD card, not just a single partition of it. For completeness, this is my entire command:
The command may take some time to execute, so let it complete in its own time. 8. Once the command has finished, you should see a new icon appear on your desktop or in the Finder sidebar, named “PiBoot”. If you double-click on it, you will see a number of files, including “config.txt” and “riscos.img”. 9. Drag the icon to the trash to eject the SD card, insert the card into your Pi and boot it. All being well, RISC OS should start. |
James (1591) 14 posts |
A big thank you for this – I am going to try tomorrow and will let you know. |
Martin Hansen (393) 56 posts |
I’ve just put up a tutorial on piLEARN |
Steve Revill (20) 1361 posts |
Nice one, Martin. One change I’d request is for you to put, in big writing at the top, this is an ALPHA pre-release. We at ROOL really, really don’t want: 1. to be flooded with support questions by email There are a lot of people working very hard to get the real release out of the door in early September and I don’t want that release to be undermined. |
Rick Murray (539) 13840 posts |
Plus in equally big letters a one-line warning as to what this entails for the stupid dribbling vocal lunatics of which the internet is plentiful… [I once had somebody complain that an alpha didn’t work on their PC. Slagged me on a newsgroup without even bothering to contact me first. When I contacted, they told me that my “first release” is horribly broken. I said Vista’s UAC is broken, and you /do/ know what alpha versions are, right? The person wasn’t having any of it, told me if **** didn’t work, it shouldn’t be released. Twit.] This is kinda off topic – so td;dr version – make it EXTREMELY CLEAR that it isn’t the official working release. |
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