On Tue, 18 Aug 2015 07:13:26 -0500 "Martin McCormick" <marti...@suddenlink.net> wrote:
> The other question is about the boot disk for a Raspberry > Pi2. > > The Raspberry Pi's OS is on a micro SD card. The Pi2 I > just got came with an 8 GB SD and I want to use a 32GB SD card. > > It has not yet been powered up so what is on the 8 GB > card is a FAT32 file system with what appear to be > self-extracting archives plus instructions for Windows, Mac and > Linux users for preparing a drive/card. > > In this case, the card is already to boot in the RPi2 so > I hope to transplant what is there to the 32 GB card. > > Since it has not yet been booted, shouldn't I be able to > tar that file system and then extract it to the 32-GB card which > came out of the package formatted to FAT32? > > Since FAT32 is not normally used in unix systems, I > assume that the extraction process may actually re-format the SD > boot drive. > > The tar and extract process went okay except that tar > produced an error about an implausibly old time stamp just as it > ended. You mean they didn't have this OS back on December 31 in > 1969? Actually, that means the time stamp read 0 and the locale > rules for America/Chicago interprets that as December 31 of 1969 > at 18:00. I was 18, then. The Unix operating system was an infant > at Bell Labs and it would be another ten years before I even kind > of knew how computers worked. Download the latest release of Raspbian from https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/ then dd it onto your 32GB sd card, and boot the Pi; one of the first thing it will offer you in the setup is to resize the partition, so as to use the whole of the SD card. Cheers, Ron. -- A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. --George Bernard Shaw -- http://www.olgiati-in-paraguay.org --
