Hi Dave, I just tried downloading the Pi 3+ image from the SNAP Bringup page and was able to unzip it and mount the .img file on my macbook. Note that it is a zip file, not a tar file, so you'll want to use *unzip*, not the *tar *utility, to decompress the file on linux.
I have been using etcher.io (https://etcher.io/) to write SD cards, which IMO is way easier. I would wholly recommend to those not familiar with linux *dd *command, (and those who like me are terrified of accidentally formatting the wrong partition and deleting their OS). - Danny On 20 October 2018 at 6:03:42 am, Bob Stricklin (bstr...@n5brg.com) wrote: Dave, The SNAP image mentioned should be a unTARed as stated and be ready to burn on an SD card. tar -xzvf rpi_snap.img.tar.gz This command should give you a file rpi_snap.img ready to burn to an SD card. Typically, after downloading a Pi image you copy the image directly to a mini SD card. You can do this using a linux computer or a Mac. If the SNAP image was created using the dd command it should be copied back to a SD card in the same manner. First you have to make sure you know which disk the SD card is located on your system. The SD card should be formatted with a FAT filesystem and then be un-mounted. You may use the Disk Utility on a Mac to format and umount the disk. There are other utilities in Linux to do this as well. This command will copy the image from (if) to (of): sudo dd bs=1m if=./Name_of_Image_Download.img of=/dev/diskX You must be sure to only copy to the disk with the SD card or you may damage your file system. Make sure you know your disk assignments. Move to the directory that contains the image before running the dd command. After copying the image to an SD card which takes a while (30 minutes to an hour estimate) you can put the card in the Pi and with it connected to a HDMI monitor power up the Pi and watch it boot up. With a standard Pi image use a USB keyboard and Mouse. You will then have to configure the pi. Typically allow ssh connections and install xrdp, set the time zone and allow vnc connections. IF you have a preconfigured SNAP image you may be able to skip this step. Run ifconfig to determine the Pi ip address and mac address. You can set this to be static in the Pi or force it on your router. Bob Stricklin On Oct 19, 2018, at 1:20 PM, David Marsh <davidmma...@gmail.com> wrote: Hello, We are trying to setup the SNAP board using the instructions found at https://casper.berkeley.edu/wiki/SNAP_Bringup. We are using a Raspberry Pi 3 B+ and we are trying to configure it using the Pi 3 image. When we download the image we are unable to unzip the file and the extracted image is not valid. We were wondering if this was a corrupted image. Is there another working image? We tried unzipping the download on multiple machines/operating systems. Thanks, David -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups " casper@lists.berkeley.edu" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to casper+unsubscr...@lists.berkeley.edu. To post to this group, send email to casper@lists.berkeley.edu. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups " casper@lists.berkeley.edu" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to casper+unsubscr...@lists.berkeley.edu. To post to this group, send email to casper@lists.berkeley.edu. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "casper@lists.berkeley.edu" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to casper+unsubscr...@lists.berkeley.edu. To post to this group, send email to casper@lists.berkeley.edu.
