<div dir="ltr"><div><div>> I bought a Raspberry Pi, finally.<br><br></div>You're way ahead of me. Must be the price that keeps holding me back. :-) <br><br>>
When inserting either card into the Pi and applying power, <br>> nothing happened. The red power LED illuminates, <br>> but the green SD card access
light never lights up.<br><br></div><div>Wondering if it's a bootstrapping issue. <br></div><div>(Though this behaviour with the SD card indicator doesn't support the idea.) <br><br></div><div>Can you use two SD cards at once? (Maybe one of them via USB?) Three options come to mind. In all of these, you'd boot with Raspbian to then get a handle on your Debian content. <br>
<br></div><div>FIrst, if the bootstrap is filesystem capable, then you could copy Debian onto SD with a working Raspbian. Carefully move the bootstrap files into some safe directory, delete the non-boot contents (most of it), then just 'rsync' the preferred distro onto the card. THIS MIGHT require three mounted filesystems. <br>
<br></div><div>If that doesn't fly, then you could try using the Raspbian bootstrap to flash fresh MBR and friends onto a Debian SD. <br><br></div><div>If that one doesn't work either, then you could try 'chroot' Debian (from a running Raspbian) and re-run the Debian bootstrap flasher. <br>
<br></div><div>In all cases, you would confirm that the Debian system is actually intact. <br></div><div><br></div><div>-- R; <><<br></div><div><br><br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 8:06 AM, Scott Merrill <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:skippy@skippy.net" target="_blank">skippy@skippy.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I bought a Raspberry Pi, finally.<br>
<br>
I intend to use this headless, so the Fedora Remix and the Raspbian<br>
distributions both seem like more than I need. A good old fashioned<br>
minimal install of Debian should suffice.<br>
<br>
>From the <a href="http://elinux.org/RPi_Distributions" target="_blank">http://elinux.org/RPi_Distributions</a> page, I downloaded the<br>
following image:<br>
<a href="http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/images/debian/6/debian6-19-04-2012/debian6-19-04-2012.zip" target="_blank">http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/images/debian/6/debian6-19-04-2012/debian6-19-04-2012.zip</a><br>
<br>
I flashed the image onto two different SD cards: one 4GB class 4<br>
device, and one 8GB class 10 device.<br>
<br>
When inserting either card into the Pi and applying power, nothing<br>
happened. The red power LED illuminates, but the green SD card access<br>
light never lights up.<br>
<br>
I flashed the official Raspbian image<br>
(<a href="http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads" target="_blank">http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads</a>) onto the 4GB card, and the Pi<br>
boots. The green SD card access LED illuminates, the NIC lights flash,<br>
and I can access the device over the network.<br>
<br>
I'd really rather stick with stock Debain, rather than Raspbian, if at<br>
all possible. Is there a better Debian image I should be trying,<br>
perhaps?<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Scott<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>-- R; <><<br><br>
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