[GTALUG] war story: creating Raspberry Pi 2 boot card

[Daniel Wayne Armstrong]

On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 1:21 PM, Evan Leibovitch <evan at telly.org> wrote:

> When creating a system for the RP I have had a 100% success rate with the GTK-based
> Startup Disk Creator
> <https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/usb-creator-gtk/> under Ubuntu.
>
> 'dd' has worked for me but I recall having to use some non-default block
> settings. One article suggests "bs=1m" as an arg to dd.
>

I created an Ubuntu 14.04 boot image for the Pi 2 using (new to me)
*bmap-tools*. My notes for writing to microSD and setting up root to run
from an external USD hard drive:

http://www.circuidipity.com/run-a-raspberry-pi-2-from-external-usb-storage.html

Uptime 6 days and counting...

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