Hi guy's
I trying to get the latest PI image from the site, if i want to unpack it tells the data is corrupted.
Also the older version have the same problem, is this a dropbox issue ?
cheers
Natnek
Both Pi images corrupted on site
Submitted by Guest on Tue, 23/04/2013 - 16:18»
Re: Both Pi images corrupted on site
Are you using dd in linux to unpack it?
Re: Both Pi images corrupted on site
No mate
I download the image to my local windows computer and unpack with winrar ( I always did with older versions)
i get the message currupted data in file.
rgds
natnek
Re: Both Pi images corrupted on site
That's probably the reason why they are corrupted.
You really need to unpack it in a linux environment with a program called dd.
It's quite easy to do, I downloaded a 'live' linux disk which I burnt to a DVD (but could use a USB drive), then booted my 'Windows Vista' laptop from the DVD, so in effect I'm running linux (debian). The dd program came as standard and works very well.
Then follow the instructions on the emoncms page to unpack it.
I don't think that you will have any success with Windows.
Paul
Re: Both Pi images corrupted on site
Paul
Well I did unpack the emoncms V5 a week ago with winrar and burned the image to my sd card and i worked well.
so something is changed.
well ok i will get a copy of the live linux disk than.
thanx
natnek
Re: Both Pi images corrupted on site
There seems to be another problem - I can successfully unzip using 7-zip (at least the Ubuntu One) but it ends up as 7.5Gb img file.... not unsurprisingly this will not copy onto a 4Gb SD card.
You should be able to use Win32diskimager to copy the img file to disk - no need for dd and live linux, see Raspberry PI forums
Re: Both Pi images corrupted on site
Sorry about the 7.5gb error, there will be an updated 4gb image hopefully tomorrow. The 7.5gb image did seem to upload to 4gb cards here though without any problems using dd. The 7.5gb image was created from a 4gb partition on a 8gb card.