Disk Image too large

9 years 4 months ago #1833 by Sunspot
Disk Image too large was created by Sunspot
I have several 8 GByte empty micro SD cards for my Pi.
The image as downloaded is just a bit too large according to ApplePi-Baker

I have a 16 GByte disk which it is happy with - burning as I write,

But could the image be reduced in size a bit - I doubt it needs all the space on an 8 GByte SD card ?

Or is there a fix? (I am new to IOT-Playground....)

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9 years 4 months ago #1837 by asm7100
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The same problem here :-)

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Allan

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9 years 4 months ago #1839 by piman
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Try reformatting the disk before burning the image, I use this program yesterday and Burn an image on a 8 GB Sd card with success.

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9 years 4 months ago - 9 years 4 months ago #1842 by Sunspot
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They were reformatted.

These are cheap Chinese SD cards possibly with bad sectors hidden by the manufacturer.

Two of them report 7.88 and 7.5 GBtes

I got a 16GByte to work and could shrink an image in Gparted - but I thought others may see the same problem with eBay cards.

New users may need to know that they should log in as pi and password raspberry and then type startx to see the dektop

(I bet people buy a Pi for the first time on seeing your great site!)

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9 years 4 months ago #1843 by asm7100
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Mine 8GByte is not the cheap Chinese SD cards, and i dont have room for the image, so i just, install raspbian and then then EasyIoT, Whe is it so big the image here??

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9 years 4 months ago #1854 by EasyIoT
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I'm using Samsung 8GB SD card to prepare image for release. I'm not sure if I can somehow shrink image file. If somebody know solution I will prepare smaller image for next release. I'm using win32diskimager to prepare SD card image.

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