On 02/12/12 14:19, Chris Green wrote:
On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 02:05:36PM +0000, Chris Walker wrote:
Ah, yes I saw that there were descriptions of how to do it using dd but it's *much* simpler to use an application made for the job like unetbootin. This is what I used and it's pretty foolproof (and I'm the fool, sometimes).
But (there's always a 'but' ;-)), I have now googled the problem some more and found out that instead of relying on what the system is telling me, I should use the fdisk command. I did that, using 'fdisk -l' and it tells me that the card is /dev/sdg!
Yes, I think I used 'fdisk -l' to check. You need to be very certain as you don't want to go scribbling on disks without being *very* sure where you're writing!
Well, I still have the 2 main hard drives :-) But what I don't have is any USB drives. If I now run fdisk -l with the SD card in the adapter, I only see sda and sdb, there is no sdg anymore. So I'm guessing that I *didn't* manage to write the images successfully.
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So it's off to google I go.
I can't help much there, I don't think I've got anything that can understand composite video any more! :-)
Although I have already looked at HDTVs to replace my CRT device, I think it's bit overkill to rush out and spend the best part of a grand to get a display from a £25 piece of kit ;-)
My wife thinks so too :-)
I have a few other things to do this afternoon so I won't be spending much more time on it today, and as I've already had confirmation of despatch of the pre-written card I've ordered, I might well wait until that turns up and see what happens then.
Thanks for your help and ideas. Much appreciated.