uSD won't boot Jspot

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WH6ST
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Re: uSD won't boot Jspot

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IT'S ALIVE! IT'S ALIVE! Using win32diskimager did the trick for copying from the original 8GB uSD to the new 16GB card. Still wondering why the pistar img-to-etcher failed to allow wifi connection.....Thanks all for the help, I learned a lot. Aloha, Steve WH6ST
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Re: uSD won't boot Jspot

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WH6ST wrote: Sun Jul 14, 2019 5:20 am IT'S ALIVE! IT'S ALIVE! Using win32diskimager did the trick for copying from the original 8GB uSD to the new 16GB card. Still wondering why the pistar img-to-etcher failed to allow wifi connection.....Thanks all for the help, I learned a lot. Aloha, Steve WH6ST
Surely the easier way is to back up the original setup, make a fresh install, copy (with Windows) the backup zip file to the root of the fresh install, pop it into your Pi and it will “just work”...

Glad it’s sorted.
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Re: uSD won't boot Jspot

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WH6ST wrote: Sun Jul 14, 2019 5:20 am IT'S ALIVE! IT'S ALIVE! Using win32diskimager did the trick for copying from the original 8GB uSD to the new 16GB card. Still wondering why the pistar img-to-etcher failed to allow wifi connection.....Thanks all for the help, I learned a lot. Aloha, Steve WH6ST
It's probably also not using the entire new card, unless pi-star has something that runs on boot that resizes the partition. SSH into the board and type "df"

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pi-star@pi-star-3b(ro):~$ df
Filesystem     1K-blocks    Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root       15213412 2490108  12069620  18% /
devtmpfs          492508       0    492508   0% /dev
tmpfs             497116       0    497116   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs              16384   13108      3276  81% /run
tmpfs               5120       4      5116   1% /run/lock
tmpfs             497116       0    497116   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs               1024     464       560  46% /var/cache/samba
tmpfs               4096    2176      1920  54% /var/lib/samba/private
tmpfs                 64       0        64   0% /var/lib/php5/sessions
tmpfs               1024       0      1024   0% /var/lib/nginx/body
tmpfs                 16       4        12  25% /var/lib/logrotate
tmpfs                 16       0        16   0% /var/lib/dhcp
tmpfs                 16       4        12  25% /var/lib/ntp
tmpfs                 16       4        12  25% /var/lib/dhcpcd5
tmpfs                 16       0        16   0% /var/lib/sudo
tmpfs              65536   17020     48516  26% /var/log
tmpfs              16384       0     16384   0% /var/tmp
tmpfs              65536       8     65528   1% /tmp
/dev/mmcblk0p1     64456   22312     42144  35% /boot
pi-star@pi-star-3b(ro):~$
pi-star@pi-star-3b(ro):~$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/ram0: 4 MiB, 4194304 bytes, 8192 sectors
		<SNIP>
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0xa0e29a9d

Device         Boot  Start      End  Sectors  Size Id Type
/dev/mmcblk0p1        8192   137215   129024   63M  c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/mmcblk0p2      137216 31116287 30979072 14.8G 83 Linux

pi-star@pi-star-3b(ro):~$
This is on a 16GB card, note the size of /dev/root (/dev/mmcblk0p2). You might want to compare the output of your 16GB card; I suspect you'll see something closer to 7.5GB.

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