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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"no space left on device" on fresh install
I did a fresh install of NOOBS on a 4gb SD card.
As soon as I did apt-get update && apt-get upgrade, I got an error with a message that there is "no space left on device". I thought ...
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Multibooting RaspberryPi with OwnCloud,RaspBMC,Raspbian
I have tried both NOOBS and Berryboot but I would like to have a say on which distro I want to install to my Pi.
I would like to have it as a NAS with Owncloud when I'm not home and choose between ...
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Brand new pi, black screen on first attempt
I got bought a new Raspberry Pi B as a present that came with an SD card, power and case etc but no instruction manual, and since it is meant to be about "teaching" I thought I'd just plug it all in, ...
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First time RPI user, Raspberrian installer won't boot, red light only
I seem to be one of countless scores of people who just don't seem to have the magic touch in getting this little machine to actually run. I will walk through the history of what I have done.
Model ...
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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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"Error downloading or extracting tarball"? [closed]
To prevent failures from shutting down abruptly, I always type sudo shutdown -h now. On this occasion something didn't work for me and I had to simply unplug the Raspberry Pi.
Now I get a this error:
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How to get back to NOOBS?
How can I get back to NOOBS? My Pi boots straight into the SCRATCH animator and I can't get anything else. Note I tried holding down the shift key when booting but it still went straight to SCRATCH, ...
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Disk Space & Expanding the SD Card Space for Raspberry PI running NOOBS/Raspbian
I just got a raspberry pi. It came with an 8GB SD card (actually an SD adapter + microsd card) with the RPi logo on it.
The sd card came pre-installed with NOOBS so I just ran the default raspbian ...
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whenever startx is typed in, I get this image
With a newly set up noobs SD card. This. Screen occurs. I am a noob of r pi so simple answers may help. I can. Access python via the command line interface. But it hangs and produces this.
Note: ...
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Need to skip or delete rc.local
I stuck some commands in my rc.local which cause the rpi to freeze (specifically, xboxdrv crashed and locks the pi up for some reason). I've even tried holding down ctrl+c throughout the xboxdrv part ...
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Create Standalone SD Card from a NOOBS installation
We just setup our raspberry pi as a server. We started with NOOBS 1.2 and installed Raspbian. I just realized that NOOBS 1.2 can't automatically boot into Raspbian.
Is there a way to clone just the ...
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NOOBS shows black screen unless I switch to to another video setting and then back to HDMI
When I first boot my Raspberry Pi into NOOBS, I get a blank screen until I push keys 3 or 4 and then select 1, switching it to HDMI again. Then, it works fine and I can install Raspbian, but after I ...
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Where is kernel.img?
I have installed the NOOBS files per instructions. When I start up, I get stuck on the coloured screen. The troubleshooting guide indicates this is due to missing/corrupt kernel.img. Where should I ...
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In Noobs, screen works, but cannot boot raspbian
As new raspberry pi user, I'm a bit confused. I have the following setup:
Raspberry Pi B model
Philips 273E3QH screen with HDMI input, with an HDMI cable to my Raspberry Pi
SanDisk Extreme Pro card
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Incorrect time until I restart the ntp server (multiple times)
I am using Raspberry PI Model B with Raspbian, installed by NOOBS, upgraded to the latest version. The NTP server is automatically started in the boot process.
When I boot my RPI, the time is always ...
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HDMI Output works with NOOBS but not after I install an OS
I am brand new to RasPi.
I installed the NOOBS onto an SD card. (formatted using SDFormatter)
On boot the NOOBS screen came up on HDMI.
I selected Raspbian.
After NOOBS installed Raspbian and (I ...
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Force NOOBS 1.3 to use composite
I currently only have access to composite video screens, so I can't use HDMI which makes it a royal pain to use NOOBS.
I have NOOBS 1.3 and I wanted to try dual-booting a couple different OSs, but I ...
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Raspberry shutsdown after boot
I just got my first RPi, and installed NOOBS on an SD card etc etc. Followed the official guide and all went fine and Raspbian was installed then it shutdown.
So I removed the power plug, waited a ...
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After the Noobs 1.3 OS-menu the screen goes blank
I've just installed Raspbian and Openelec with Noobs 1.3. The display I used under the installation was connected through RCA. And therefore Noobs has written two lines in the OS's config.txt files:
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Using NOOBS, no keyboard
I have a keyboard/mouse combo that connect via Bluetooth to a sensor that plugs into the Pi. It works great because the sensor has minimal current draw, compared to other keyboards I have used (...
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