My Raspberry set up of three days ago.
I downloaded NOOB s from the Raspberry pi site and unzipped it into a new folder.
I had a used a 16 Gig Kingston SD card which I did a quick format on and loaded the NOOBs folder onto the SD card.
After putting this into the Raspberry and using a HDMI to DVI cable for video, I powered up and got nothing but a single red led (not blinking.) It was completely dead. (I have since found out if the leds on either side of the Ethernet port are alight, then the Raspberry Pi is working.)
Back to Raspberry site and realised that almost I had done so far was wrong.
You MUST format the SD card properly (unless you have bought an SD card professionally pre -installed). Download SD Formatter V4.0 and install it. Load your SD card and format it their way. Do not select quick format. The correct formatting took 50 minutes!!.
Now my second mistake was to the drag the NOOBs folder over to the SD card. Do not do this. Open NOOBs from your computer that has the card reader and drag and drop every file within NOOBs on to the SD card. Shove it in the Raspberry and fire it up. I selected the Raspian OS. I have the RP3 B but it was still a slow load.
I had to wait two weeks for my RP and Dongle to arrive from Ebay and spent that time learning off You Tube and others how to handle the menu within Raspian. This was a total waste of time. Nothing was what Utube taught me when Raspian started up. There is no choice to install SSH , no passwords nothing. That caused me problems because to load the fr24 programme onto your Pi and Dongle you need this DOS command. (By the way DO NOT run the install disc that came with the Dongle.)
Fast forward three hours of total frustration trying to find this DOS command feature turns out its on the top menu called terminal. I wrote down precisely the sudo command that is on the Flightradar24 Raspberry site to load the Dongle and very carefully entered this twice. Nothing happened. I then decided to cut and paste the command and it worked.
Incidentally the Raspberry HDMI output did not work on my 32 Sony TV.
I downloaded NOOB s from the Raspberry pi site and unzipped it into a new folder.
I had a used a 16 Gig Kingston SD card which I did a quick format on and loaded the NOOBs folder onto the SD card.
After putting this into the Raspberry and using a HDMI to DVI cable for video, I powered up and got nothing but a single red led (not blinking.) It was completely dead. (I have since found out if the leds on either side of the Ethernet port are alight, then the Raspberry Pi is working.)
Back to Raspberry site and realised that almost I had done so far was wrong.
You MUST format the SD card properly (unless you have bought an SD card professionally pre -installed). Download SD Formatter V4.0 and install it. Load your SD card and format it their way. Do not select quick format. The correct formatting took 50 minutes!!.
Now my second mistake was to the drag the NOOBs folder over to the SD card. Do not do this. Open NOOBs from your computer that has the card reader and drag and drop every file within NOOBs on to the SD card. Shove it in the Raspberry and fire it up. I selected the Raspian OS. I have the RP3 B but it was still a slow load.
I had to wait two weeks for my RP and Dongle to arrive from Ebay and spent that time learning off You Tube and others how to handle the menu within Raspian. This was a total waste of time. Nothing was what Utube taught me when Raspian started up. There is no choice to install SSH , no passwords nothing. That caused me problems because to load the fr24 programme onto your Pi and Dongle you need this DOS command. (By the way DO NOT run the install disc that came with the Dongle.)
Fast forward three hours of total frustration trying to find this DOS command feature turns out its on the top menu called terminal. I wrote down precisely the sudo command that is on the Flightradar24 Raspberry site to load the Dongle and very carefully entered this twice. Nothing happened. I then decided to cut and paste the command and it worked.
Incidentally the Raspberry HDMI output did not work on my 32 Sony TV.