CHchadzawistowski·Feb 29, 2016
You might find this helpful: https://github.com/t0x0/random
It seems to convert the ffu format to a dd-able img format. I haven't tried using it, however.
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6 sourcesI tried the technical preview of IoT core and was underwhelmed. The mouse didn't even work! It jumped around erratically making it unusable.
My experience with Linux on the Pi is that it just works out of the box. Simple things that you need to install a driver for on Windows are plug and play on Linux [0].
I installed the desktop Windows 10 preview just to flash the SD card. Although I read in the Mag Pi [1] that there is a Python script [2] to convert the image to a normal format.
I'm a big fan of C# and I'm a professional .NET developer. It's my go to stack. Yet, I believe that the best way to use a Raspberry Pi is with Python on Linux.
[0] https://unop.uk/dev/raspberry-pi-electricity-monitor
[1] https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/issues/34/
[2] https://github.com/t0x0/random
In Windows 10 IoT Core for Raspberry Pi 2It was in the repo I got the ffu2img script from, forgot to remove it, see https://github.com/t0x0/random
Fixed now, thanks.
In Windows 10 IoT Core for Raspberry Pi 2You can use this python script to convert the image to standard raw format: https://github.com/t0x0/random
Then flash it with your normal tool such as dd or Win32DiskImager.
In Windows 10 IoT Core for Raspberry Pi 2Does anyone know if you can write the SD card using dd/Win32DiskImager?
Edit: yes - https://github.com/t0x0/random/wiki/ffu2img
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