On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 1:54 AM, <shashilx(a)shashilx.com&gt; wrote: > I'm see that iso images available but can't understand how to use it. All manuals says about compressed *.raw.xz images which must be unpacked (at least under windows) to write on SD card. I've tried to use win32dd or some other raw copy tools to write iso image to SD card (and even tried USB stick) but no luck. May be someone can explain how to use iso installer images to install system like it installed on normal PC.
The iso installers are more for 64 bit enterprise devices and they are used just like you would on an x86 device. What are you trying to achieve?
I want to run installer and install from scratch on RPi 3 instead of using ready-to-use .raw image.
compressed *.raw.xz images which must be unpacked (at least under windows) to write on SD card.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils provides links to programs that should expand the .xz file on a Windows system. The expanded file is what must be copied to a SD card and used in an ARM device. Note that the raw image has a modest size (in order to fit on an 8GB SD card.) I usually use 16GB or 32GB SD cards, and expand the ext4 root filesystem on the SD card to the maximum possible size for the card in use, before I boot on an ARM device. Any Fedora system can do this (x86 architecture is fine) using the parted, e2fsck, and resize2fs commands. This is not a necessary step, but it is easy to run out of space when there is only a few gigabytes available, as in the raw image. It would be convenient if the First Boot operation offered an option to resize the root filesystem. Someone may have already done this, yet I failed to notice because of my habit.