so i downloaded the image and put it on a usb stick and loaded berryboot on a 2 gb sd card
i started up berry and when asked where to put os i swapped out with a 4GB class 10 and formatted it... at prompt for what os i click cancel.... then hold down mouse button on add os to get the option to use os image on USB stick... on selecting the IMG file i'm told its not in squashFS format....
is there a way to fix this? the only card reader i have is the one in my camera but that can only format up to 2 GB...
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please help...
i'm on a mac and have access to a win7 pc.... is there relly not a way to simply convert the image to the right format with some simple commands?
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does no one see this as a problem?
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now i have tried to make a 4gb sd with the ready to go image.... followed this guide:
Note: Some users have reported issues with using Mac OS X to create SD cards.
These commands and actions need to be performed from an account that has administrator privileges.
Download the image from a mirror or torrent
http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads
Verify if the the hash key is the same (optional), in the terminal run:
shasum ~/Downloads/2012-12-16-wheezy-raspbian.zip
Extract the image:
unzip ~/Downloads/2012-12-16-wheezy-raspbian.zip
(or: just double click the zip, it will extract automatically)
From the terminal run df -h
Connect the SD card reader with the SD card inside
Run df -h again and look for the new device that wasn't listed last time. Record the device name of the filesystem's partition, for example, /dev/disk3s1
Unmount the partition so that you will be allowed to overwrite the disk:
sudo diskutil unmount /dev/disk3s1
(or: open Disk Utility and unmount the partition of the SD card (do not eject it, or you have to reconnect it)
Using the device name of the partition work out the raw device name for the entire disk, by omitting the final "s1" and replacing "disk" with "rdisk" (this is very important: you will lose all data on the hard drive on your computer if you get the wrong device name). Make sure the device name is the name of the whole SD card as described above, not just a partition of it (for example, rdisk3, not rdisk3s1. Similarly you might have another SD drive name/number like rdisk2 or rdisk4, etc. -- recheck by using the df -h command both before & after you insert your SD card reader into your Mac if you have any doubts!):
For example, /dev/disk3s1 => /dev/rdisk3
In the terminal write the image to the card with this command, using the raw disk device name from above (read carefully the above step, to be sure you use the correct rdisk# here!):
sudo dd bs=1m if=~/Downloads/2012-10-28-wheezy-raspbian/2012-12-16-wheezy-raspbian.img of=/dev/rdisk3
if the above command report an error(dd: bs: illegal numeric value), please change bs=1M to bs=1m
(note that dd will not feedback any information until there is an error or it is finished, information will show and disk will re-mount when complete. However if you are curious as to the progresss - ctrl-T (SIGINFO, the status argument of your tty) will display some en-route statistics).
After the dd command finishes, eject the card:
sudo diskutil eject /dev/rdisk3
(or: open Disk Utility and eject the SD card)
Insert it in the Raspberry Pi, and have fun
of course you have to substitute the path with something else and the fact that the sd card can change disknumber after DD..... but it will not boot
Re: Ras pi image not in squashFS format
Hello boelle, berry and usb stick sounds like a good alternative way to install the image. Im not familiar with squashfs, would one need to have a squashfs image for usbstick installs and an image created using dd for sd card installs?
Other thoughts:
Will your 2gb camera sd card reader write the image as just a 2gb partition which you can then expand to fill the 4gb sd card when you login to your pi and run raspi-config?
I wonder if its possible to have an sd card that instead of using berry uses dd to install the current image off the usb stick in a similar way to how your using berry?
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the problem with my camera is that it does not handle cards over 2 gb... its to old... it simply refuses to format it
so i did go to a local shop and got a card reader.... i got the image transfered but it would not boot... i came across this thread:
http://openenergymonitor.org/emon/node/2178
post 3 solved the problem
berry boot was just a try to get things on the card...
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btw... how do i attach a usb harddrive and log to that instead?
and how do i expand the partition on the sd card?
will look arround but not found it yet
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Trystan and the doc answered question 2 : "a 2gb partition which you can then expand to fill the 4gb sd card when you login to your pi and run raspi-config"
It'll be obvious once you're logged in. Don't bother right now.
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no.. i figured it all... just forgot to tell here