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Dos_Box

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I wonder if this is when they go on sale? :)
Oo

 

Oops, the day the W8 Consumer Preview goes live. I hope they don't get drowned out in the noise that generates.

trevj

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Im intending to get one for me and shoving riscos on it and evaluating for use as a thin client and owt else i can think of

 

I'd be very interested to learn how you get on with this, assuming you're able to order a board!

sted

sted

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I'd be very interested to learn how you get on with this, assuming you're able to order a board!

 

Its on order as is a 16gb sd card

mac_shinobi

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Oooh now thats an idea...I have a portable TV, so I could shove a few TV shows on there for my daughter for longer shows :) Good thinking batman...2 RasPi's coming up! lmao

 

USB SD Card reader - store everything on an SD Card , jobs a good un :)

Jawloms

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Its on order as is a 16gb sd card

 

You may want to order an 8gb in case the 16gb doesn't work. Quote from the guy who made the Raspberry Pi;

 

eben

on March 3, 2012 at 1:08 am said:

We don’t currently work with some high-capacity class 10 SD cards. There are plenty of 8GB cards that work well, but I’ve not seen many 16GB cards that do. We’re working to develop a fix for this.

mac_shinobi

mac_shinobi

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You may want to order an 8gb in case the 16gb doesn't work. Quote from the guy who made the Raspberry Pi;

 

eben

on March 3, 2012 at 1:08 am said:

We don’t currently work with some high-capacity class 10 SD cards. There are plenty of 8GB cards that work well, but I’ve not seen many 16GB cards that do. We’re working to develop a fix for this.

 

Partition it into two 8gb partitions ?

Turbo-FB

Turbo-FB

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You may want to order an 8gb in case the 16gb doesn't work. Quote from the guy who made the Raspberry Pi;

 

eben

on March 3, 2012 at 1:08 am said:

We don’t currently work with some high-capacity class 10 SD cards. There are plenty of 8GB cards that work well, but I’ve not seen many 16GB cards that do. We’re working to develop a fix for this.

 

I've been working with Liam on the Fedora and Arch download servers.

Both images *should* fit on a 2GB card once uncompressed, but a 4GB is recommended by most people we've spoken to as not all 2GB cards seem to be able to take 2GB of data without overlaping or running out of space on partitions. For what its worth I'm buying 4GB cards.

 

Dos_box and ZeroHour will be posting some of our guides and datasheets here over the next few days, two of which cover downloading images and extracting to SD cards.

 

Turbo

Arthur

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We don’t currently work with some high-capacity class 10 SD cards. There are plenty of 8GB cards that work well, but I’ve not seen many 16GB cards that do.

If they are designed to meet the relevant SD card spec, surely the cards would be classed as faulty if they do not work? :confused:

 

Or is it because there are lots of fake cards on the market?

sted

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too late cards in post lol

there was naff all price diff between 8 and 16

as above the vids ive seen oin how to install it instaklls as a 2gb partition then gets expanded ext4 iirc my plan is to leav that 2gb and then fat32 the rest of the drive and shove media on it

Guest salan

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Just had a notice from Farrnell to say that I will be waiting until May!!

Alan

Guest salan

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I feel a tad better now lol thanks !

Yep Gald about that.

Thanks

sted

sted

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other than being on order i dont remember being given a date all my e-mail says is you've ordered one pretty much
JJonas

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Im still cautiously optimistic I may have one of the first batch from RS, I did register my interest at 6.01 - while most people were tweeting "where is the RS order page?"

 

Still wondering if I should put another order in with Farnell, just to be sure of getting one.

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nickjelly

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Same sort of ordering time as you JJonas. We should find out from RS by the end of this week. However when I read of upwards of 500 orders a second going through it's going to be borderline at the very very best I fear....
LosOjos

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Im still cautiously optimistic I may have one of the first batch from RS, I did register my interest at 6.01 - while most people were tweeting "where is the RS order page?"

 

Still wondering if I should put another order in with Farnell, just to be sure of getting one.

 

I am feeling quite pessimistic about it all. I too sat hitting refresh on both Farnell and RS's sites from the moment the announcement was made, registered my interest with RS as soon as the page came up, only to hear tweeted later by R-Pi "if you're getting the register your interest page, you're looking in the wrong place". I couldn't find any other mention of R-Pi on their site, and people tweeting to ask for the link were denied it.

 

The whole launch has been a bit of a shambles... what happened to them being available from the R-Pi store and no pre-orders? We're now all pre-ordering (effectively, as when they "launched" the suppliers didn't actually possess them) from third parties...

  • 3 weeks later...
plexer

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So if they had stuck with the original plan of distributing themselves without letting farnell and RS stick their oars in we'd have pi by now.

 

Ben

LosOjos

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Also, they received the first 2,000 from China on Monday? What was the whopping big lie about the distributors having 10,00 last month about then?

 

My prediction - RasPi will crash and burn before the year is out.

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