Glad to see it available. =)

good to see this finally out, i better get some more sd cards… :)

Download complete. Now seeding :)

What is the preferred method for reporting bugs in the remix (as opposed to fedora or fedora-arm bugs)?

Thanks, Tyler & Seneca. You published this when PTB were distracted by magjacks (I keep reading that as madjacks for whatever reason), but the hard work that went into this will be very appreciated.

Seeding!

Wonder if there’s any easy way to get the installer working on WinXP. All my home & work machines run WinXP SP3. (I know, should be running Linux already :-)

OK… first silly question.
While we are waiting patiently to receive our Raspberry Pi’s, is it possible to install a bootable version of this distro onto an SD card, and to boot up from that to run it on an ‘ordinary’ PC, which has a card reader, so as to be able to get familiar with it first?
Thanks! (Please keep any replies simple! ;) )

Great news that yet-another distro is now available, even if it’s one that I won’t use myself – great job.

At the risk of sounding like a troll (which I really do not intend) I have to comment on two points:

“Programming languages: python, perl, ruby, bash” – No C or C++ in the default image? That surprises me and makes me kind of sad.

“Editors for programming: vim (text mode) and gedit with plugins for file management, terminal, and python console (graphical mode)” – I don’t want to start an editor flamewar, everyone has their own preference and that’s just fine, but I’m mildly surprised that emacs is there.. ohh well, it can be quickly installed :)

Great!

Students and Chris: thanks for all the hard work!

Good good! :)

Seeding…

Wow! What a day of two halves. :)

Why would you want to compile a lang like c/c++ on the pi? I think having the included ones (python, et al) is a very good way to show that these languages should be the ones learned and used. Sure understanding the history of computer development and coding is important but that can be saved for a different device.

keep it simple and powerful!

I wonder, will you publish those VideoCore GPU libraries and any other needed for raspberry pi to work? Some of us would like to be able to build our own specialized distributions.

seeding since yesterday ;-)

C/C++ not there! What are you thinking? They are the relevant grandaddy of all other modern languages and massively in use today. If you master those two, the rest is just syntax! Deeply, deeply disappointed and I’m bound to question PI’s educational credentials.

Congratulations, Chris and the team at Seneca College, along with the R-Pi team! Having been there, done that, and gotten the T-shirt (wet due to sweat, not a raunchy bar contest … well, not all of the T-shirts were obtained that way ;) I can appreciate what the last half-year has been like. The update to 17 in short order and joining formation flight with 18 are fantastic to hear, too.

I’m a volunteer senior docent, Babbage Difference Engine operator/presenter/maintainer, artifact restoration engineer, and historian at the Computer History Museum in SillyCon Valley and I will be using the R-Pi to demonstrate computing principles to public visitors, as well as educators and students who participate in our educational programs. We usually wait at least 10 years to acquire artifacts, but, with product lifecycles routinely averaging 18 months from inception to end-of-production today, we are having to capture history as it’s happening, and the R-Pi is the latest example. I get the feeling that it’s going to have a more lasting impact than our typical artifacts as it’s embraced by educators as is hoped, and we will be doing everything possible to help make that happen here and everywhere else from which our guests travel, often from all over the world as they visit SillyCon Valley on business, and the surrounding San Francisco Bay area for pleasure. We even get visitors from the UK, as we have the only Babbage Difference Engine still operated on a daily basis, as its older twin at the Science Museum in London is rarely operated except anniversaries of Babbage’s birthday, etc.

Anyway, we’re in line with everyone else waiting for delivery of our R-Pi boards with minnows in our mouths (“baited” breath ;) and will post a video of an R-Pi running the Fedora Remix (TM ;) in parallel with the Difference Engine to generate the same mathematical tables … at slightly different clock speeds!

Thanks for the hard work and the detailed description in this blog post.

I just tried the Windows installer to get my SD card ready (Yea, it’s going to be a little while before I can get an RPi, but hey, at least I feel like I am making some progress toward that ;) ), and here is one thing you might want to note under at least the Windows installer (I don’t know about other OSs):

You need to have the installer on your computer’s main partition. I have my hd partitioned to keep my downloads/data seperate from my OS. When I ran the installer from the secondary partition I got the following message: “‘E:\OS’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.” (The same thing happens when I click refresh or Install. It also will not recognize the SD card.) I figured this might have to do with the partition, so tried it on the primary partition and it worked fine (even when image was on the secondary partition) (this is on Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit, btw).

I expect the next version to add Lua, Racket and GHC ;-)

You didn’t mention it but I assume the usual gcc, make, etc. are install also?

For those of us that don’t follow the different Linux distros (for the last 15 years or so, anyway), is there a list of suggestions for which distro might be the best for particular usages (for example comp education vs embedded/real-time vs home automation vs HTPC, etc.)? Failing that, is there (or could there be) a table of features and resource requirements for each?

Nobody cares how many spoiled distros flirting with your foundation right now. Please focus on “manufacturing” so we can buy your hardware and start to work on it instead of waitin on the line for even pre-ordering! Everybody using Debian on ARM platforms since ages, seriously.

Sad to read FEDORA is the “recommended” distro. Stuff doesn’t work, man. Also, RPM.

Raspberry Pi is still good, anyway.

Thanks for the nice install tool. Good work.

I don’t know if it’s a bug or something I’m doing wrong. I was able to get it to work slick as Pi on Win 7. However, for some reason, with Ubuntu 11.04 the remix loader would run/start up just fine, find the remix source just fine off on the server, but it never could find the SD card. Not a big deal because I used the Win boot up to load the card. Did some simple things to see if I could get it to find the card but even with a reformat of the card in Ubuntu, etc never was able to get the remix installer it to locate the card.

The card would show just fine when I plugged it in and after the Win 7 Install, it shows all the files so I know it’s ready. If you have any hints as to what is going on with the Linux / Ubuntu issue, I can try it out and see if the installer will find the SD card.

Thanks again for all the hard work.

Ubuntu 11.04 on Toshiba Satellite laptop.Lexar 4GB SDHS card.

Tried the SD builder from Win7. No trouble selecting the distro (already downloaded…Fedora Remix). Can’t select the SD card even when running as admin.

I keep getting a command box running “DiskPart” and I’m not about to start feeding that commands without knowing what drive I’m pointing to…

What gives? Do I need to go through the whole card formatting/partitioning first?

gread!thanks for all the hard work

Folks, what’s with all the moaning about “XYZ isn’t included, I’m so disappointed”. Just install it yourself, what’s the problem ?

You should really have used Kernel 3.1.4 instead of 3.1.9.

Small (minor) bug: you are grepping the output of fdisk -l to get the disk list.
This break if you use a different locale than english.
The easiest way to fix this is to launch the fdisk command with the LANG=C environement variable so english is used.
The cleaniest solution is to use udev/libudev to get the disk list.

I too am astonished it doesnt use Kernel-3.1.9-3.1415926_compiled_at_full_moon_while_sacrificing_a 000042. This whole raspberry pi project has been a shambles! First we hear it doesn’t come with a complementary ipad, then that the ethernet jacks cant be used to pick up scrap metal, then that we need to install gcc ourselves with a whopping two commands, and now that they’ve chosen the wrong kernel. Oh make the pain stop.

out of interest, whats the issue with the installer with XP (over Vista/7) ?

Win7 installer can´t get access to SD even running as administrator. At command windows got an error “TypeError: can´t use a string pattern on a bytes-like object”

I assume the ‘ñ’s are supposed to be bullets or suchlike and there’s been some sort of encoding error?

yey! just go to check the post everyday for my shiny pi to arrive!

Last piece of the puzzle, well except for maybe a case

I had a quick check of the installer and it doesn’t like going through an auto proxy. Since we are in a part of the world were we are discouraged from doing big downloads at busy times, I’ll cron a download past midnight my time and check if the script works from a local copy. (I suppose I should go out and buy an SD card as well though I was holding off on checking out the spec needed until I had an ETA for my board; more at the Wiki, for anyone else looking at this now: http://elinux.org/RPi_VerifiedPeripherals#SD_cards).

On the size of GCC: how does llvm/clang compare in installed size? Looking at in on my Ubuntu box, it looks like a much smaller install (< 70MB) but I may be missing some packages in making the comparison. This may be something to consider if you want C or C++.

Sorry to put unrelated comments in 1 post but Spam Free WordPress has been cruel to me in the past :(

wonderfull, il love you guys! (and you too liz :p)
Make an installer/downloader is a very good idea!

The “Other platforms” http://files.velocix.com/c1410/fedora/installer/source/faii-1.0.0.tar.gz Requires PyQt4 and this version will work only on Linux-es, not on OS X or other Unix platforms.

[…] be used for media as well.For those of you still unsure of where and how to begin, jump over to the RPi blog for the full instructions as well as the download location of the distro.Sourcevar […]

I am happy to seed your torrent

I’m interested in whether the Remix uses OSS or/and ALSA for it’s sound system? On the wiki its says developers needed for ALSA/Pulse Audio work – but its unclear whether they are need just to implement it – or if its to accelerate it via the GPU?

I’m on a mac and I’m wondering: Is it possible just to write it onto the SD-Card with the dd command?

Thanks for the release!
Mirrored here http://dazzlepod.com/raspberrypi/#images

Congratulations to our Raspberry Hatted Fedora Friends

Created a very raw template bash script to download, decompress and install Fedora Rpi image from Puppy Linux
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=610703#610703

Hopefully a smarter dog will create an improved script

The installer didn’t complete for me; I think because it expands the image in /tmp which on my system is in RAM:
tmpfs 1992776 57048 1935728 3% /tmp
The download and its gunzipped version comes to about 2.3GB, so to make it work I had to edit the script to use ~/tmp instead.

Last time I scanned the install notes on the Fedora release I’m sure it mentioned that a microSD card in an adaptor wouldn’t be recognised and you must use a regular SD card. Can’t see that note here so is it still relevant? If so, it might be worth popping it back in.

Is the WinXP problem to do with the fact that XP won’t create (or read/write) multiple partitions on removable media? If so there are solutions which involve fooling Windows into thinking it is fixed media, either by modifying the disk or by using drivers that tell Windows the disk is fixed.

It would be great if you provide Magnet links at the torrent pages. This reduces the bandwidth on your server and it’s easier for most users to download a torrent!

<3 IT! Looking forward to test it!

Thank you! <3

Looking forward to trying this out! I’ve just got one question, though: what will be happening about security updates? Presumably also the release will have some kind of end of life date, because it’s impractical to support these things forever. Do you know yet what this will be?

Maybe include XBMC media center software by default as well?

I believe there were two recent replicas of the Babbage Engine made based on the one in the Science Museum in London. The second one was made for Bill Gates after he visited the Science Museum during a Microsoft Event. I wonder what happened to this second unit ??

Thank you for all the hard work in making this happen. By coincidence my 8GB Kingstom SDHC arrived in the post today and as it was raining I had the perfect excuse to stay inside and try out the Windows installer. All went smoothly so now its time to wait patiently for my RPi to arrive oh and find my old spare BBC Micro B case to mount it! :D

[…] Fedora Remix is the recommended distribution for Raspberry Pi and these is an installer for windows that will format the SD card and do all of the complicated bits for […]

It sure would be nice to have a version of the installer for XP. I am sure that there are many many thousands of us still running XP….

Does this installer work with other distros too?

Darn, I could not use fedora-arm-installer-1.0.0 for the debian6-17-02-2012.iso that I have previously Downloaded… Could it be updated to allow ease of use with each Distro??? Plz? Would make everything soo much easier!

Question 1: about the python installer, how to contact the one who made it if there are issues? (like: it doesn’t see my SD card…)

Question 2: “If there is no input device connected during boot, the system will … boot directly into character mode interface”: same as before, where to ask if this beaviour is changeable? (like: I want to use its desktop remotely)

Comment 1: I’m glad I went to Farnell, and could order, RS just sending me ads…

btw..still waiting ubuntu distros available for raspberry pi :)

How to install that operating system?
1.plug SD Card using cardreader and connect to my computer
2.unzip run fedora-arm-installer.zip and run it (windows7)
3.click Browse to select the file.
4.Select the SD card device you wish to write to (Caution! Make sure you don’t write to the wrong device, and make sure the SD card does not contain important data – the selected device will be overwritten!).
5.Click Install.
6.plug SD card to Raspberry Pi
7.boot
8.done?

Like this??

Mirrored on my CDN!

http://www.rpiforum.net/forum/files/file/10-fedora-14-remix/

Just installed it on to an SD card using a Mac with built in SD card reader. Thanks for the people who posted the instructions. Amazed at how easy this was! Now I just need a RPi.

Wonderful news. I’ve just installed RPFR on a SD to test the workflow and it was a snap. Impressive tutorial too.

I’ve made an italian translation of this post on http://wp.me/pd4j3-hP to further lower the access barrier of non english speakers.

“The first time the system boots, the SD card image will be resized to completely fill the card”

Is this part of the generic first boot for the Fedora release, or does it only do this if you automate the process with the installer? I’m assuming the former, so my next question is does it have to fill the card? Would it not be possible to specify how large you want the image to be, for those using larger size SDs that perhaps don’t want it to take up the whole thing?

Thanks

Tried the windows installer – got the installer window and dialoge box – but none of the buttonw worked – just DOS error messages

Tried the Fedora installer in Ubuntu – seem to get an archive programme – (I am a very new linux user) – do you have some more instruction that dont asume you understand or know intermedtiae steps? (rather not have to code)

Many thanks

Mick

Window Vista install failed at stage 3 (Browse) – just greyed out – no files listed to select!

I realize this has been answered elsewhere, but I cannot, for the life of me, find the answer: Where is the list of available packages? Thank you, and sorry for having cluttering things up.

Hi guys – thanks for posting this – it certainly helped me to prepare an SD card with the Fedora Remix for my Pi (arrived yesterday) :-)

My problem is that I don’t have a TV/monitor with HDMI – is there a way to make this work with the component out signal (e.g. some magic commands via SSH), or do I need to find someone with the night cable/TV (or another distro?).

TIA, Mark

While the download page is out of date and for those like me who need the image.
I give you the list for direct download mirrors.

http://pastebin.com/r0Thgiu0

I’m pretty new to this, just ordered my Pi yesterday from RS. I use Fedora on my home pc and work laptop, it’s been fine on both. I personally have better experiences with it than Ubuntu which i started on.

I still can’t believe people are using XP, how old is that thing now??

The Fedora Arm installer is currently doing it’s thing (on my Fedora PC) to my SD card in anticipation of the Pi’s arrival!

I’m getting really disappointed. Debian doesn’t want to work with wireless. Fedora won’t even install. This installer won’t see the SD card that works perfectly with every other tool. And since the base image isn’t on the download page I can’t DD it over.

I used the Fedora image and following issues I faced on my raspberry pi:

1. HDMI outout is not working.
2. Using TV video out gives improper screen size that goes outside of the TV frame and makes first boot setup really difficult.
3. At the Fedora GUI login screen , though I had created a user I was not able to login from GUI login screen.

Please correct the mentioned issues.

I have a system running Ubuntu 12.04. The above download and insatll tool does not find a SD card device. But ls /dev/sd* comes up with sdb and sdb1. The Device refresh button does not find the SD card wheather it is mounted or not. Can I down load the .img filw and install it with dd? If so then where do I find the .img file? On the raspberry pi downloads page I do not see any reference to Fedora.
Your assistance please.
Steve

I tried the installer on my ubuntu machine however it doesn’t detect the SD card in the USB SD reader I have – any way I can force this to appear as an SD card? Otherwise I have to boot up my windows machine and hope I can find the download easily

Anyone else having trouble with finding the SD card? I have tried Ubuntu, Windows Home and Windows Professional, both native and USB readers, running as root where applicable… no card anywhere!

Hi,

My problem was show as below during I install Fedora to my 8G Transend SD card!
Exactly I got this error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “C:\Python32\lib\site-packages\cx_Freeze\initscripts\Console3.py”, line 2
7, in
File “fedora-arm-installer”, line 979, in
File “fedora-arm-installer”, line 210, in listdevs
File “C:\Python32\Lib\re.py”, line 167, in sub
return _compile(pattern, flags).sub(repl, string, count)
TypeError: can’t use a string pattern on a bytes-like object
File “fedora-arm-installer”, line 210, in listdevs
File “C:\Python32\Lib\re.py”, line 167, in sub
return _compile(pattern, flags).sub(repl, string, count)
TypeError: can’t use a string pattern on a bytes-like object

All this errors are shown at command window.

I’m running Win7 OS 64bit Traditional Chinese.

Who can help me!

J.Young

In a spanish environmet the python script does not works because it looks for the word “Disk” when listing devices and it is “Disco” instead.
I had to modify two lines to make it work 98 and 211 changing as told before, now it works perfectly.

********** To solve device not recognized on fedora arm installer *********
Your SD card still not appears in device selection, because the “fedora arm installer” is programming for English ONLY, you have to change your system language…
I tried on Fedora 17 (configuring in French), I change the language in English, and is working perfectly.
On windows is a little harder, because you’ve too patch your windows.
An alternate method, you can use a live boot usb (example fedora 17), install the fedora-arm-installer.rpm, to execute it, open terminal and launch command (fedora-arm-installer), type your admin password and select your .img.
If you can’t find your directory, just create a shortcut link with nautilus, put it in Desktop, next source–>browse and open your directory !
Hope it can help !

Link to this error :
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “C:\Python32\lib\site-packages\cx_Freeze\initscripts\Console3.py”, line 2
7, in
File “fedora-arm-installer”, line 979, in
File “fedora-arm-installer”, line 210, in listdevs
File “C:\Python32\Lib\re.py”, line 167, in sub
return _compile(pattern, flags).sub(repl, string, count)
TypeError: can’t use a string pattern on a bytes-like object
File “fedora-arm-installer”, line 210, in listdevs
File “C:\Python32\Lib\re.py”, line 167, in sub
return _compile(pattern, flags).sub(repl, string, count)
TypeError: can’t use a string pattern on a bytes-like object

I’m too stupid to even follow this! Can I simply (1) download to my MAC the zip file, (2) unzip it (3) get the img file (4) copy this from the MAC onto an SD card? Or must one do something more elaborate? If so: could you specify those steps and an explanation?
thanks!

Ok, i’m trying to install Fedora Remix on this 16 GB SD card using Ubuntu 11.10.
The Fedora Arm Installer works but i cannot see my sd card. I’ve tried unmounting the card several times. I’m using the native card reader on my pc (Asus Barebone P6, Intel core I5). I’ve even tried to use root access changing the mode of the device node (sudo chmod a+rw 7535f5db-edbc-435e-958e-6999298e949f –>which is the name of my SD card). No way, i can not make it work. In the fedora installer i see i can choose the rasberry PI Fedora Remix but i still don’t see any SD card.
Any suggestion? My Rasberry PI will probably arrive in september…Thanks!

Gracias por la informacion, compre por ebay un raspeberry pi, espero proceder con la instalacion y empesar a disfrutar del proyecto, gracias de nuevo.

Is there gonna be a new (fixed) release of Fedora Remix for the Pi soon ? Thanks and keep up the great work. I just got two Pi’s ;-)

Thanks, Fedora worked well. Tried some other ways to get the SD card OS image loaded like RaspiWrite (3 bugs in the python script, fixed that then I’m supposed to be a root and edit the sudoers file or something, WTF..) and none worked, this worked like a charm..

This is my fist day use Raspberry.

I successes setup network but when I yum install something and then system crash all the time. any idea? I really wish I can use pidora.

I am using

– SD card 8G transcend SDHC class4

– IPad 5v adapter

anything wrong ?

Does this version suppors Lazarus?