Raspberry Pi Installation Help?

[cmayo]

(16th Apr, 2021 03:39 AM)gkusiak Wrote:  I'm not sure if it's correct or not, but this has been working for >1yr for me:

I just DL the latest RasPi4 .gz from sourceforge and have etcher flash it to my SD card. I do that on my desktop *buntu machine - it unpacks the zip, flashes the card.
Install the SD in the Pi, power it up..good to go - etcher can apparently flash from an URL now too, which is a little cool

there's rufus (for windows if that's your OS) to flash the image to SD...can't remember if you have to unzip it first...

my Pi is hardwired to my network - GigE works much better than wireless...
v19's stability has increased dramatically - it used to crash on me a couple of times per evening. now if it crashes once, it's a surprise and opportunity to visit the bathroom and/or refresh my mug of tea

Although I didn't stay with XBian after getting it running last year, I spent a big part of yesterday trying to get back up to speed on the install so I might be able to help thoalex, and had zero luck. The Sourceforge XBian_Latest_rpi4.img.gz file is corrupt and won't gunzip (unexpected end of file, multiple tries on multiple downloads on multiple computers/platforms on multiple networks). I couldn't get the PINN installer to write to an SD card ("An error occurred when attempting to write data to handle. Error 32: The device is not ready."). Finally gunzipped the PINN installer archive and wrote the image file to the same SD with Win32 Disk Imager but once I got the Pi booted with PINN, I couldn't get it to reliably connect to my network (via WiFi or wired to my router) so I was ultimately unable to install XBian even using PINN. (And Rufus WILL install a gzipped IMG file without decompressing first)