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2019-09-06 2:09 am
Seems to take quite some time to save zip
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2019-09-06 9:15 am
And it didn't download like an app like it did before I think I'm going to have to re do it it is in word pad I hate word pad should be in file explorer but I can't get it to go am I going to have to hang my head and get a pre loaded card it was easy before ?
2019-09-06 10:33 am
Try the noobs lite and see what happens. The difference between the big one and the small one is that the small one needs internet. I tried to post it on my github, but it's 37 megs
2019-09-06 11:03 am
The latest full noobs download is 2.25 GB and the raspian full image is 6.43GB. Obviously depending on your internet speed the noobs download can still take some time. I have not had any problem with either of the downloads not have I found any difference in copying the noobs files or flashing the raspian image to a SD card except that the size of the files has grown. I do not see others raising any issues with this so maybe something just went wrong in your download.
2019-09-06 12:04 pm
As @byron states above, NOOBS is just a copy of files to a blank SD card. Then doing an installation with that requires the PI to have a network connection, either wired or wireless, to do a install of Raspian. That's why it is so much smaller. The full package is much, much bigger as it is an image file of a PI that has everything installed, except for updates that became available after the image was made. The image has to be written to the SD card with a special piece of software (Etcher or DiskImager) and not just copied with intrinsic OS commands.
I've done both of these processes multiple times over the last week or two and have had no issues. It doesn't appear, at least to me, that the process is any different than it was with previous releases.
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2019-09-06 5:21 pm
Yes I had etcher but after I used it I figured I didn't need it anymore but for some reason it didn't download like an app instead it went in file explorer and worse yet in word pad I don't know what I did wrong but I certainly did something as always thanks in advance for any help ?