Questions tagged [noobs]
Questions involving the New Out Of Box Software (NOOBS). Use this tag if you are having trouble using NOOBS to boot your Pi, having trouble with using NOOBS to install an OS, or your question involves NOOBS, such as how to configure an installation from within NOOBS.
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Installing Raspbian from NOOBS without display V2.1 and beyond
So it appears there have been significant changes to the "New Out Of the Box Software" (NOOBS) system with version 2.1 and beyond. According to the release notes included with the package:
2016-11-...
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Harddrive install with Noobs?
I just got a Raspberry pi 3 with a WD usb external pi hardrive. The hardrive comes with a bootberry sd card with really confusing and contradictory instructions that installed (old outdated versions ...
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Move 16GB SD NOOBS Raspbian to 64GB Micro SD for a new B+
I am upgrading to a Raspberry Pi B+. These are my concerns:
I have RASPBIAN via NOOBS on a full sized 16GB SD card.
How do I get that onto a 64GB Micro SD card?
raspi-config does NOT support ...
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Installing Raspbian from NOOBS?
I've used my Raspberry Pi before mainly for XBMC (so I know it works and my power supply is okay, etc.), but I want to learn to program a little better, so I've started trying to install Raspbian.
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Raspberry Pi Cannot Boot, SD card loaded with NOOBS
completely new to Raspberry Pi here. The fact that nothing is working here is frustrating me to no end, please help.
So essentially I've followed every website tutorials' instructions that I could ...
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RetroPie along with NOOBs
Does anyone know how to add RetroPie OS to an already installed NOOBS SD card in Raspberry Pi 2?
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Install additional operating system with NOOBS
I have installed Raspbian with NOOBS and I now want to add another operating system (OpenElec) alongside it. When I hold Shift to enter recovery, I only get the option to install Raspbian again.
How ...
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Deleting NOOBS from SD card and only keep Raspbian
I've got NOOBS on my SD card, and chose to install Raspbian on it.
Now what I want to do is to remove NOOBS from my SD card, while still keeping Raspbian and all of my programs/settings.
I tried ...
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Why is NOOBS not showing me all the operating systems?
A week or two ago I dropped NOOBS 2.3 on to a 32 GB SD card, booted it in my Raspberry Pi Zero W, configured the network, and was then presented with a nice long list of OSes that I could install, ...
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configure setup to install apache, php, and then copy in /var/www/
Is there a way to cause noobs to install apache and php during setup, or perhaps leave a script which will do that upon first boot? And then copy info into /var/www? Basically what I want is a way ...
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Error Mounting NOOBs partitions (Raspbian + Libreelec)
I'm trying to mount the libreelec storage partition of an SD card built with a fresh dual boot install of raspbian + libreelec on a 128GB Sandisk CD card built with NOOBS. I'm using a Raspberry Pi 3 ...
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How to safely do a headless Raspbian install with WiFi only network
Is there a safe way to do a headless install of Raspbian with a WiFi-only network? I have a laptop with an SD slot to preconfigure the SD card as necessary. By "safe" I mean that at no point do I ...
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Can't SSH to rPi
I just installed a fresh SD Card with Noobs 2.3, changed to silentinstall in recovery.cmdline and did all the other steps in Installing Raspbian from NOOBS without display but now it doesn't work. The ...
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How do I add the nightly Risc Os build as an option to the NOOBs / PINN OS list?
The latest NOOBs image contains the RISCOS boot binary, but the option to install it dosen't appear on a Pi-3. I guess as the official release only supports Pi-1 + Pi-2, while the nightly build ...
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Running Adobe Flash application on Raspberry Pi B+
I'm working on a project using Raspberry Pi B+ running NOOBS / Raspbian.
We wish to run a flash application from the equipment manufacturer.
We used Windows PC / running Windows Vista previously. We ...
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Can't get Ubuntu Mate on NOOBS?
So Ubuntu mate is now an 'official' third party OS I guess:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/
I'd like to install it to try it out, I know how to install using a .img file, no problem.
The ...
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Transferring 16gb microSD to 64gb
I made a backup of the 16gb microSD card (installed with NOOBS) for a Raspberry Pi 3 and saved it to my Mac using:
sudo dd if=/dev/disk2 of=~/Desktop/raspberrypi.dmg
Then, I took a 64gb microSD card,...
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Raspberry Pi as a link between a scanner and cloud storage
I've never had a Raspberry Pi in my hands. I'm just looking for a device to perform a specific single task and I wonder if Raspberry Pi could be my solution.
My situation is this: I've got a portable ...
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Is it possible to use a Raspberry Pi wihout a HDMI monitor
My daughter got a Pi for Christmas. I have no HDMI monitor or TV available at the moment. Until we get one is there any way to use the Pi?
I have researched and tried various approaches to the ...
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No display on Benq GW2255 model for Raspberry Pi Model B+
No display are coming, while booting raspberry model b+ with Benq GW2255 (Only have this monitor).
I had successfully tested PI with PuTTY/SSH. I had made various config changes, that I found on the ...
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Stuck on keyboard layout
I have a Logitech combo mk345 wireless mouse and keyboard (Y-R0042).
When I press # the pound sign is printed on screen
Have tried the sudo raspi config > change keyboard (no success) probably ...
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Windows 10 IoT and other OSes on NOOBS install list
Can I install Windows 10 IoT on PI 3, and also retain NOOBS install list?
If I press Shift, NOOBS seems to be missing. These is no option to install another distro.
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NOOBS on Raspberry Pi 3 not starting
I changed /boot/config.xml because I had error with sudo i2cdetect 1 command.
Now NOOBS cannot start.
How i can edit /boot/config.xml on SD card with Windows?
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Can you run 32-bit IceCat or IceWeasel on Raspberry Pi 3?
I just got my RPi3 loaded, Raspbian (NOOBS) and tried node-red, but found a problem typing in function. I found out it was the browser's fault. Now I would like to install Firefox (AKA IceCat or ...
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Rasberry pi noobs sd card shows /dev/sdb6 with fdisk when there are only /dev/sdb and /dev/sdb1 exist?
I'm trying to edit some init scripts that have gone haywire on my raspberry pi Noobs SD card, and since it's easier, I'm trying to edit them on a MacPro 3,1 Ubuntu box I have.
After I plug the sd-...
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Multiple microphones
Some of you know a method to connect 4 microphones to a RPi and handle them seperate?
I want to calculate out when a soundwave hits the first microphone, the second, third and fourth (under water).
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Formatting 64/128gb microSC card to run on RP3
I had no success with experimenting on my SanDisk Ultra 64GB microSDXC UHS-I (SDSQUNC-064G-GN6MA).
I tried formatting entire one to Fat, Fat32 using 3rd party software, making small Fat/Fat32 ...
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Noobs can't copy to SD card: Can't be Read or Written Error -36
I'm trying to install NOOBS on a formatted SD card using a Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.6. I can't copy the files over from my downloaded zip of NOOBS, however. I'm following these steps.
Here's the ...
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dpkg error on fresh install
i am new to the raspberry and just setup my first one with a fresh NOOBS installation. First thing i did was mounting my external hard drive. Next i did sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get ...
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Remove one of the OSes from the SD card
I've installed both Raspbian and OSMC using NOOBs into 1 sd card.
Is there a way to remove OSMC to free up some space? I have Kodi inside raspbian so OSMC is kind of redundant.
My SD is 16gb.
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Raspberry does not start after apt-get upgrade
Bought myself a Raspberry PI 2 to use it as a simple web-server (lighttpd). Should have been simple. I have some years of experience with Debian so the light version of RaspBian was an obvious choice.
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RPi3 Noobs with Raspbian
I'm fairly familiar with debian linux, but having a little problem with the getting NOOBS running. I installed OSMC direct dd to the flash without problems without NOOBS. I installed UbuntuMATE ...
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Noobs Lite - automatically install Raspbian
I'd like to build a Raspbian setup process, where the user needs to do as less as possible. That's why I'd like to use Noobs Lite but to start the setup it's still necessary to have a display and ...
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Steady Red Light With One Green Light Flash After Booting Pi
I have a 16GB RAM Raspberry Pi 3
I'm using a Mac 10.11.5
I have 2 SD cards: 64 GB micro SanDesk and 8GB micro SanDisk (both should be supported by the Pi)
I've formatted the SD card using the SD ...
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I have two MicroSD cards that no longer work in my Raspberry Pi 2
I have two different sized SD cards that both worked in my Raspberry Pi. I was trying to set up OwnCloud but I just wanted to completely restart so I shut down the Pi and took the MicroSD card out. I ...
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RPi Zero unable to boot Operating System
I've been playing around for over a week now, and I have had no luck whatsoever in getting any operating system to boot onto my Pi Zero. I started by flashing an image of RetroPie, but that gave me ...
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Connecting a Raspberry Pi 3 to an iMac
I just got my first Raspberry Pi and I was wondering how I can use an iMac as a display for NOOBS.
I tried connecting an HDMI cable to the Raspberry Pi and connecting the other side to a Mini Display ...
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Boot Options for different OS
I have installed NOOBS 1.9.2(Offline and network install) in Pi3 Board. On booting only Raspbain OS option available and not listing other different OS to be installed or booting.How to show other ...
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New Raspberry Pi B+ not compatible with Noobs 1.4
I've got an SD card I clone every time I buy new RPi B+ and I use it as a base system with all of the software I need pre-installed and configured. It's built on Noobs 1.4.x.
The problem occurred ...
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Noob questions - login to websites and MacOS
Why does my Raspberry Pi 2 identify on websites as MAC OSX? (which prevents me from downloading the correct versions of software/debian?)??
Why can't I login to ANY website (Google, etc.)? Are there ...
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Fresh NOOBS install boots straight to Raspbian?
I recently purchased a Raspberry Pi 3, with a NOOBS sd card. During my first boot-up and initial setup using an external screen and keyboard, I was expecting a configuration settings dialog to choose ...
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Is it possible to create a script that runs after a NOOBS installation?
Is it possible to create a script as part of the NOOBS installation files in the FAT32 partition on the SD card, so this script runs automatically after the installation of NOOBS?
I need this in ...
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CENTOS7: Gnome Desktop for Pi2 (xorg-x11-server package Missing)
It was recently announced support for GNOME 3.14 and KDE 4.14 desktop environments, X.Org Server 1.17 display server"
http://news.softpedia.com/news/centos-7-linux-officially-released-for-raspberry-...
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Noobs minimum/maximum partition size
I have installed libreelec and raspbian on single SD card using NOOBS. Raspbian got 8GB partition and LibreElec about 5GB. OpenElec takes only 256MB so I would like it to be assigned partition no ...
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Raspberry PI 3 Model B+ resetting after every reboot
My RPi 3 resets itself after every reboot. All my settings, customizations etc are lost. Keyboard layouts, date/time setting, setting in the sudo raspi-config (camera setting etc), desktop ...
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Colored screen when booting raspbian from noobs
i have a raspberry pi model b with noobs and raspbian installed on the sd card. ive used it for quite a while but today when i boot the pi it just shows me a colored screen and i cant do anything. i ...
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Raspberry Pi will not Boot after some days of working
I have installed NOOBS on a Raspberry Pi B+ and it has worked for for 15-20 days.
But now it will not boot.
The Green LED light blinks 2-3 times and goes off and didn't blink after that.
Please help ...
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Whats the difference between NOOBS and Berryboot?
Whats the difference between NOOBS and Berryboot? Why would you use one vs the other?
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NOOBS doesn't work! The worst! (My research!)
Why i called it "The worst"? Beacuse i can't make it work >:(. "And sorry im 11 years old using this and im lithuanian so there are some mispells or mistakes so don't ban me!". There are five devices ...
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Cannot boot up initially
I bought a new Raspberry Pi 3. I purchased a specific power supply for it as well (CanaKit 5V 2.5A Raspberry Pi 3 Power Supply). I then formatted my 8Gb microSD card according to this instructions. ...
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