Another update to PiParted
Fixed up non-appearing SD Cards
Also added a backup option, at the moment it can only backup ~4GB SD Cards as it reads it to ram for now. Your computer will also need at least 4 GB of ram to backup the SD Card.
Grab it here !
SHA1 Hash – 2fa25e4f9e9260a3612129a1b0291fca3e3fd628 PiParted-0.04.iso
Comments / feedback would be very welcome !
Just finished up with PiParted v0.03
Changes –
No longer needs 4 gigs of ram as it will uncompress and image on the fly.
Tested it on a laptop with 1.5 gigs of ram and it worked ok.
Installing from SD Card –
Works with both zip and .gz file, haven’t tested properly with .tar.gz but should still work
Also checks SHA1 hash when downloaded from the Pi site.
Incremental update really.
Download it from here
SHA1 Hash –
f91e53df56aec6cc7d1b27041e0750b0f4763bfd PiParted-0.03.iso
After some tweaking, I have improved PiParted.
Please note this is a very early testing version, so some things may break or not work properly.
Download it here !
New features –
Flash OS from zip file on SD Card:
If the SD card only has one partition, and there is one zip file on that partition, the script will use that to flash an OS on.
Reset SD Card:
This will format an SD Card back to defaults, i.e. one vfat partition.
dd will now show it’s status when it’s flashing a SD card.
I’m looking for testers, so if anyone tries this out, please give me some feedback, either on this post or in the forum thread @ http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=39160
After going through the forums, I recently had an idea that hopefully will make installing distros onto an SD card much easier.
A lot of issues come from people not knowing how to do it right, e.g. just dropping the img file onto an SD card.
So I’ve customised a GParted LiveCD ISO and written up a custom script to *hopefully* install a distro straight onto an SD card.
This is a very early iteration of this idea, but hopefully will develop into something useful.
At the moment, essentially what it will do is
1. Grab the list of Distros from the RPI Download page
2. Let the user select which distro he wants to install
3. Select the Disk device that he wants to install it onto
4. dd the image onto the disk device.
Later on, I’m hoping to add more functionality including –
resizing image files
resizing sd card partitions
wiping SD cards back to a normal usable (by windows) state
Installing distributions from other sites
auto-resizing of the root partition after installing a distribution
Grab the iso from here
Feedback can be left here or on the forum topic
