Not able to install on SD-card using Ubuntu and gparted

xterm

Hello
I'm an old raspbmc user and found this new exciting project called piMame. But I can't get it to install on my 8GB SD card
So here is how I have tried it.

1. I'm on a Ubuntu 13.10 laptop. Putting in my 8GB ScanDisc Ultra SD card in the reader (the SD-card have been used to host raspbmc on my RPi).

2. Formating the SD card using gparted.
I have tried both Fat16 and Fat32 none have worked for me. In the Fat32 case I end up with a SD card that I can read from but it contains just jibberish! If I use Fat16 I end up with a unreadable card that is getting all sorts of wierd behavour in gparted

3. After formating I use this command to install
sudo dd if=pimame-0.7.10.img of=/dev/sdb1
[sudo] password for xterm:
7741440+0 posts in
7741440+0 posts out
3963617280 byte (4,0 GB) copied, 1275,73 s, 10,1 MB/s

But I can't mount the SD card after I have tried this.

Where do I go wrong?

mholgatem

I'll look a little more into this in a while, but I will tell you that you do have to format using Fat32. Fat16 will not work. Maybe see if this helps any. otherwise, I'll check back a bit later.

http://elinux.org/RPi_Easy_SD_Card_Setup

mholgatem

Try leaving off the 1 so that it writes to the entire card.

sudo dd if=pimame-0.7.10.img of=/dev/sdb

xterm

Tanks for The advice. Ill try that and get back here

xterm

Thanks guys! To sdb instead of sdb1 did the trick!
Now on with configuration!

Conno123009

Marked as solved :)

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