Raspberry Pi Installation Help?

[cmayo]

(13th Sep, 2020 07:42 PM)Nachteule Wrote:  Excuse me, but you are talking crazy
Download the installer, run it, select the hardware and the image you want to burn and then burn it to the sd-card. what's the problem?

And that's pretty much what the "Getting Started" said, but that's not how it went. Once I downloaded the Windows installer from xbian.org/getxbian, burned the SD and booted the Pi, I wasn't looking an Xbian setup wizard but a Noobs installer where, apparently, I had to install Xbian (which I thought I'd already done on the Windows machine). I wasn't connecting the Pi to the internet at that point (and didn't know the installer needed it), so Noobs was immediately bailing with the mysterious "Done with errors" blurb.

From other distributions (OSMC, LibreELEC, OpenELEC, etc.), I expected that all I needed to do was burn an Xbian image onto an SD and I'd be good to go. The Xbian install was just a bit more convoluted than I expected, but maybe your installation went differently. No big deal, I eventually did get Xbian installed and running.

And I did find the debug log in /var/log, where I should have looked in the first place.