Ubuntu MATE running on a Raspberry Pi 3
Ubuntu MATE running on a Raspberry Pi 3
Has anyone attempted this before, whether successful or not? Their site clearly states you need an 8 GB SD card, yet none of the three 8 GB micro cards I own are sufficient. When I try to save the image, they report the device is too small, citing sizes from a single MB up to just over 100 MB. This looks extremely careless. It’s not that the file is actually 8.5 GB or more—it seems the website made an error. Once written, the created partition is only about 4 GB, rendering the image completely unusable. Feel free to share your experience if you’ve seen this problem, or if you have any suggestions, let me know!
this problem isn't clear to me. the file size is only 1.1GB, but it seems incomplete. you might need to mount the ISO and remove some files. also, consider transferring folders from the SD card to a USB drive and adjusting their paths in the SD card's /etc/fstab settings.
The file size is 1.1 GB, but it gets smaller after unpacking. Once the image is extracted, it reaches 8 GB. There’s no way to view the contents without opening the files, so I can’t recreate the image myself.
You can launch it or pull its contents out. Yes, 7-Zip works well and is quicker when using a USB drive.
I've completed the USB boot unlock, but the rest of the help guide explains copying your Raspbian setup to the USB and keeping it operational. That’s not what I needed. I hope I can install the MATE image on the USB and start running directly from there—let's find out how that will work.
I'm not sure if it can drive that high of a resolution... I did test playing back a ~10 Mbit H.264 1080p 60 fps video though and it worked perfectly in the provided player. VLC wasn't having any of it though (1 frame every now and then with now audio) and even 720p 60 fps YouTube is beyond its abilities... needs better software I guess, since clearly the hardware is sufficient. Well that didn't work ( ಥـْـِـِـِـْಥ) Why they did not just set it to automatically try booting from any present USB drives if the micro SD isn't found I will never understand... why intentionally limit a feature that you apparently have!? Just stupid... So I wrote the MATE image to a sufficiently large USB drive, and am now using gparted to shrink and copy it to the micro SD since there's more than enough space for the actual content, just not their retarded image in natural form.
The problem seems unclear to me, but on my Pi it starts up correctly and functions. I only know that you should attempt writing the image onto the card using Linux.
The problem stemmed from an "8 GB" image being marginally bigger than all my 8 GB cards (ಥಿಂದ). I wrote it to a bigger drive and then reduced and copied the partition using gparted, which fixed the issue. GG Ubuntu MATE folks... your image is mostly empty space that prevents people from using cards that would otherwise work fine.