Raspberry Pi, a playful pie: fourth season NOOBS

Today to change the play, do not continue to explore Raspbian system, research on the official website recommended another method of installation noobs.

So what is noobs? It is an operating system management tool designed for easy-to-use graphical interfaces built for Raspberry Pi. All called: New out of theBox software

Official as follows:

The original purpose of this tool is to simplify the Raspberry Pi installation system cumbersome, because Raspberry Pi board bought is not with the system, we need to purchase additional sdcard to install the system. For many novices, the command-line thing must be easy to understand without a graphical interface. It is because each sdcard above represents the installed system, we can continue to experience different systems by buying a few more sdcard, just by changing a sdcard to fix, it is very convenient. Here's what I'm doing if you're using a noobs installation system in another 8G card Raspbian.

First step, download noobs

Website link, remember that you are in Ubuntu under the Firefox browser download, you can continue to pass the breakpoint.

Step two, Format sdcard

If your sdcard is a FAT32 file system, skip this step. Do not be intimidated by this step, if not formatted, then noobs installation only need three steps: download , unzip , start on the Raspberry Pi.

SDcard is formatted as a Fat32 file system under Linux. Using the FDISK command requires root privileges, or sudo. Plug in the SDcard card and execute the following command:

#fdisk-ldisk/dev/sdb:8054 MB, 8054112256 bytes49 heads, sectors/track, 11070 cylinders, total 15730688 sectorsunits  = Sectors of 1 * bytessector size (logical/physical): bytes/512 bytesi/o size (minimum/optimal): bytes /Bytesdisk identifier:0x00000000   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  system/dev/sdb1            8192    15730687     7861248    b  W95 FAT32

It seems that my 8G card is now a FAT32 system, and this one partition. It doesn't matter, the process I'm going to do it again.

#fdisk/dev/sdb1command (M for help): DNo partition is defined yet! Command (M for help): pdisk/dev/sdb1:8049 MB, 8049917952 bytes248 heads, a sectors/track, 1022 cylinders, Total 1572249 6 sectorsunits = sectors of 1 * bytessector = size (logical/physical): bytes/512 bytesi/o Size (minimum/opti MAL): bytes/512 bytesdisk identifier:0x00000000     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  Systemcommand (M for help): npartition type:   P   Primary (0 primary, 0 extended, 4 free)   e   Extendedselect (d Efault p): ppartition number (1-4, default 1): 1First sector (2048-15722495, default 2048): Using default value 2048Last s Ector, +sectors or +size{k,m,g} (2048-15722495, default 15722495): Using default Value 15722495

Tips: Enter key to select the default item.
Tips:enter is means you select default option.

The above creates a primary partition, partition number 1th. and set the start and end sector values. Let's take a look at the creation situation:

Command (M for help): pdisk/dev/sdb1:8049 MB, 8049917952 bytes248 heads, a sectors/track, 1022 cylinders, Total 1572249 6 sectorsunits = sectors of 1 * bytessector = size (logical/physical): bytes/512 bytesi/o Size (minimum/opti MAL): bytes/512 bytesdisk identifier:0x00000000     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  system/ DEV/SDB1P1            2048    15722495     7860224-up  Linux

OK, our partition type is Linux, and we'll convert it to FAT32.

Command (M for help): Tselected partition 1Hex code (type L to list codes): L//attention! This is L! Not number 1.  0 Empty NEC DOS bayi minix/old Lin BF Solaris 1 FAT12 Hidden NTFS Win 82 Linux swap/so C1 drdos/sec (FAT-2 Xenix root Plan 9 for Linux C4 drdos/sec (FAT-3 Xeni X usr 3c partitionmagic os/2 hidden c:c6 drdos/sec (FAT-4 FAT16 <32m x Venix 80286) Linu           X Extended C7 Syrinx 5 Extended PPC PReP Boot NTFS volume set da non-fs data 6 FAT16 * SFS (NTFS) Volume set DB cp/m/CTOS/.  7 Hpfs/ntfs/exfat 4d qnx4.x-Linux plaintext de Dell Utility 8 AIX 4e qnx4.x 2nd part 8e  Linux LVM DF bootit 9 AIX Bootable 4f qnx4.x 3rd part Amoeba E1 DOS access a OS/2 Boot Manag Ontrack DM 94 Amoeba BBT E3 DOS r/o b W95 FAT32      Wuyi Ontrack DM6 Aux 9f bsd/os e4 speedstor C W95 FAT32 (LBA) cp/m A0 IBM Thinkpad Hi eb BeOS fs e W95 FAT16 (LBA) Ontrack DM6 Aux a5 FreeBSD ee GPT f W95 Ext ' d (LBA) 5  4 OnTrackDM6 a6 OpenBSD ef EFI fat-12/16/10 OPUS ez-drive A7 NeXTSTEP F0 Linux/pa-risc B11 Hidden FAT12-Golden Bow A8 Darwin UFS F1 speedstor Compaq diagnost 5c Pria M edisk A9 NetBSD f4 SpeedStor + Hidden FAT16 <3 speedstor ab Darwin boot F2 DOS Secondary Hidden FAT16, GNU HURD or Sys af hfs/hfs+ fb VMware VMFS, Hidden hpfs/ntf, Novell N Etware B7 BSDI FS FC VMware Vmkcore AST smartsleep Novell Netware b8 BSDI swap fd Linux raid           auto1b Hidden W95 FAT3 disksecure Mult bb Boot Wizard hid FE lanstep 1c Hidden W95 FAT3 be Solaris boot FF BBT 1e Hidden W95 FAT1 old Minix Hex code (type L to list codes): Bchanged system type of partition 1 to B (W95 FAT32) Command (M-help): pdisk/dev/sdb1:8049 MB, 8049917952 bytes248 heads, sectors/track, 1022 cylind ERs, total 15722496 sectorsunits = sectors of 1 * = bytessector size (logical/physical): bytes/512 bytesi/o Size (minimum/optimal): bytes/512 bytesdisk identifier:0x00000000 Device Boot Start End Block s Id system/dev/sdb1p1 2048 15722495 7860224 b W95 FAT32

The new partition needs to be written to SDcard, using the W command:

Command (M for help): Wthe partition table have been altered! Calling IOCTL () to re-read partition table. Warning:re-reading the partition table failed with error 22:invalid argument. The kernel still uses the old table. The new table is being used atthe next reboot or after your run Partprobe (8) or KPARTX (8) Warning:if you have created or mod ified any DOS 6.xpartitions, please see the Fdisk manual page for additionalinformation. Syncing disks.mkfs.vfat/dev/sdb1mkfs.vfat 3.0.12 (Oct) Mkfs.vfat:/DEV/SDB1 contains a mounted file system.

It's worth noting that my format operation above seems to have been unsuccessful. Because you can see the original files in the SDcard,
Maybe it's because of write protection? Or what other reason? As if I had not succeeded in a series of operations.

The third step is to extract the noobs files to SDcard

If SDcard is originally a FAT32 system, then you can do this step directly, which is the convenience of installing the system with the Noobs tool.

Decompression process:
At this time I am in the SDcard directory, directly execute the unzip.

Unzip ~/raspberrypi/noobs_v1_3_10.zip Archive: ~/raspberrypi/noobs_v1_3_10.zip inflating:build-data INFL  Ating:instructions-readme.txt Extracting:recovery_files_do_not_edit Inflating:bootcode.bin Creating: Defaults/creating:defaults/slides/inflating:defaults/slides/a.png Creating:os/creating:os/raspbian/inf LATING:OS/RASPBIAN/ROOT.TAR.XZ inflating:os/raspbian/boot.tar.xz inflating:os/raspbian/partition_setup.sh Extra Cting:os/raspbian/raspbian.png Creating:os/raspbian/slides_vga/inflating:os/raspbian/slides_vga/g.png Inflatin G:os/raspbian/slides_vga/b.png Inflating:os/raspbian/slides_vga/c.png Inflating:os/raspbian/slides_vga/d.png I Nflating:os/raspbian/slides_vga/e.png inflating:os/raspbian/slides_vga/f.png inflating:os/raspbian/slides_vga/a. PNG Inflating:os/raspbian/partitions.json Inflating:os/raspbian/flavours.json extracting:os/raspbian/raspbian_- _boot_to_scratch.png INflating:os/raspbian/os.json inflating:os/raspbian/release_notes.txt creating:os/data_partition/extracting: Os/data_partition/data_partition.png Inflating:os/data_partition/partitions.json inflating:os/data_partition/              Os.json extracting:os/data_partition/data.tar.xz Inflating:recovery.cmdline inflating:recovery.elf          Inflating:recovery.img Inflating:recovery.rfs Inflating:riscos-boot.bin

Fourth step, start

Now you can take sdcard off the computer, plug it into the board, and power on. As shown in the following:

In the installation, the copy speed is 1.4mb/s, which is significantly slower than copying the IMG to sdcard directly with the DD command.

After a long installation process, finally succeeded. The splash screen is exactly the same as the previous season.

Reference:

Official Installation Documentation: HTTP://WWW.RASPBERRYPI.ORG/DOCUMENTATION/INSTALLATION/NOOBS.MD

Raspberry Pi, a playful pie: fourth season NOOBS