RISC OS onto SD card

I’ve been trying to create an image on the SD card to run RISC OS on a raspberry pi – unsuccessfully. It is extremely frustrating that I can create an SD card image for a Linux distro (on another machine) but not do it on a RISC machine.

What I’ve done:
Used a 8Gb SD card with fat32 format
Downloaded the compressed image from ROOL
Opened the image file and saved it into a directory
Opened the application !Clone Disc
added the image file to the input side of the window (path appears correctly)
located the SD card the image is to be written to
Clicked on ‘Start’
within a few seconds it tells me it is done
Load SD card into the raspberry pi and switch on
Red light comes on and n.o.t.h.i.n.g !!!!!!

What am I missing – please!

I don’t no if I understand you right.
On a RISC OS machine you can also write a SD card Image with !SDCreate .
But there must be a other mistake. A few seconds is to short. I have create a Image from my RPi Card (filetype is &FCD) and save this back to another card. All this with the NutPi !CloneDisc. No problem but round about 10 minutes.

After many hours of frustration we gave up using the image from the ROOL site. Instead we used !CloneDisc
and the SD card with RISC OS Pi from RISC OS Open.

Open !Clone Disc and insert blank SD card into a card reader plugged into the pi’s USB
(this is with the raspberry pi running after booting in RISC OS)
On the input side of the window select SDFS and then Drive:0
On the output side select SCSI and then Drive:0 (or the number corresponding to the new SD card)
Then click on Start and a pair of red and green bars will give a graphic display of the process while a timer gives you the time to completion.

Once the process is completed (time varied from 3mins to 20 mins – on a card we ‘mucked’ up – on 16Gb SDHC class 10 cards) shut the pi down (pull the plug); remove the ROOL SD card and replace with your newly created boot disc/SD card and restart. It may take a little longer for the first start-up but it will then boot to the desktop. As we had installed the RISC OS Nut Pi on the original card it also appeared on the cloned card. As did the copy of Drawworks XL we’d downloaded from the APDL website.

How do you image a card without a ROOL original? We didn’t manage it but may have another go when the current dose of masochism wears off.

I wrote the downloaded image via !SDCreate (on BBxM). This was not a Problem. I don’t have a ROOL SD card.
Is the Imageformat the same? Maybe CloneDisc use a other. Try SDCreate …