I have a problem with NOOBS. I have tried to download Raspbian onto the SD card directly from NOOBS, and as soon as the download starts, I get the regular message "Please wait while the software is installed on your SD card - this may take a few minutes." Underneath it, it says Raspbian Full: Creating Filesystem (FAT). It has been stuck on this for hours and the Pi is not responsive and I've tried restarting the process several and reformatting the SD card, which works fine if you directly download Raspbian onto it. Does anyone have any idea of how to get this to work? I would try to get the picture of it up, but the one I took is above the site limit of 2MB. I'm trfying to install this onto a Raspberry Pi Zero, with an 8gb SD card, which should be enough for Raspbian. Hope you can help.
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Don't bother with Noobs:
- Download 'Raspbian Stretch with Desktop' https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/
- Flash image to sd card using Etcher https://www.balena.io/etcher/ (no need to unzip image)
- Place sd card in Pi and turn on
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Finally figured it out, the 8GB SD card may have been corrupt, or maybe the fact that it only had 7.4GB that the system could actually use may have stopped it creating the Filesystem properly. Now I have a 32GB in there and PINN works fine - I assume NOOBS does too
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