NOOBS Lite - "Available 0 MB" - cannot install software #174
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Once it has got to NOOBS:
Post the error message... Gordon |
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Testing if input device is a keyboard "/dev/input/event0" It looks like something is broken, is there anything I could do perhaps prep the SD card to get NOOBS Lite to run as it should?? |
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OK, return to the command line and do: parted parted> resize 1 8192s 143M And see what it says, can you post the output (even if it all works...) Gordon |
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Error: Partition /dev/mmcblk0p1 is being used. You must unmount it before you modify it with Parted. |
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Error: Partition /dev/mmcblk0p1 is being used. You must unmount it before you modify it with Parted. |
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Opps I closed by mistake :| |
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I assume you accidentally closed it! Sorry... do: umount /mnt parted> p |
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Okay thanks that appears to done the trick. :) Does that mean there is a problem with NOOBS Lite not partitioning my memory car correctly?? |
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That's what I was worried about - you didn't post the description of what it said when you did this... I assume there were some warnings / errors when you did the resize... Did you write them down ? |
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Hmm something is wrong I gone to install OpenELEC which appeared to work, but when the Pi rebooted it wasn't loading the boot loader. When I ran parted as suggested I remember getting a warning message, it wanted me to convert the file system into fat16. Now I'm going to have to start over lol :( |
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It's likely that you unplugged the card before sync'ing the disk and therefore trashed the FAT partition... If it happens again (which I doubt!) please do not repeat this... I am trying to get the error / warning messages when you do the parted... If I can't get that then this will have been a complete waste of time |
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(parted) p Number Start End Size Type File system Flags (parted) resize 1 8192s 143M Error: The FATs don't match. If you don't know what this means, then select cancel, run scandisk on file system, and then come back. Ignore/Cancel? |
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Yay... Bug found... If you've got a linux computer available or disk imager on windows can you copy the first 20 Meg from the card? dd if=/dev/sda of=file bs=1M count=20 Or something, I'd like to be able to reproduce the effect so andrew can fix it... Gordon |
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If the FATs don't match, there's no way to fix the error automatically, because AFAIK we have no way of knowing which FAT is correct and which FAT is wrong :-/ @redhawkuk How did you format your SD card initially, before you copied NOOBS Lite onto it? Using the SD Association formatting tool? After copying NOOBS Lite to your card, did you make sure to 'safely remove' it before removing it from your PC and inserting it in your Pi? And FYI, NOOBS does allow you to pre-select a PAL video mode before bootup https://github.com/raspberrypi/noobs#how-to-change-the-default-language-keyboard-layout-display-mode-or-boot-partition |
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Okay I've found something really odd which seems to have fixed the problem although I'm scratching my head over this one. When I initially formatted the memory card I never set a volume label I never really saw much point in it. So I tried formatting the card again but this time without a set label, booted NOOBS and the old problem returned. As a test run I also installed OpenELEC and it worked this time without trashing my memory card. :) I still can't believe my problems was all over the fact I never labelled the damn drive?? If you still want a 20MEG image of my SD Card when NOOBS is failing let me know. cheers, Richard S. |
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Yes please... It's interesting that there is a problem with the volume label, there are actually a number of different places you can store the label which can lead to problems... Gordon |
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NOOBS (offline and network On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 5:38 AM, redhawkuk [email protected] wrote:
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Unfortunately I don't have access to useful imaging software but in any case I doubt it's going to help. On a slightly off-topic problem: it seems NOOBS process of converting fat32 to fat and resizing partition is creating errors on the card. On a rather off topic but serious problem it seems some overzealous moderated had banned my redhawk account last night on the Raspberry Pi Forum, either that or there's been a very bad software malfunction. If anyone has access to the Pi forum could you please ask on my behalf or contact Clive in PM and find out what the hell is going on. Richard S. |
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Can you find out what your IP address is and I'll check the banned list... You're not banned as a user anyway... EDIT... http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/5890 Looks like there's been a bit of trouble! |
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Yeah I guess #2 hit the fan as they say, anyway the forum is back up thankfully. :) Richard S. |
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is u formatting ur sd card make sure there nothing on it i had to download On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 5:38 AM, redhawkuk [email protected] wrote:
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NOOBS (offline and network On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 8:27 PM, george smith [email protected] wrote:
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go to noobs web page click on downloads and use their formatting tool u On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 8:29 PM, george smith [email protected] wrote:
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put ur sd card in ur laptop or ur pc sd slot On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 8:39 PM, george smith [email protected] wrote:
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toolow, thanks for your suggestion but I'm quite capable of installing software without the help of NOOBS. As it happens another user on the Pi forum was having exactly the same problem with his 4GB SD Card - http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=91&t=67668 I can only conclude from this user and my own my experiences that the script used to resize the fat partition on first run must be failing for some reason when the drive has no volume label. Richard S. |
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+1 on the issue of setting a label when formatting the SD card. It is absolutely mandatory to do so (at least in my experience). When I first saw the 'unable to resize FAT partition' error, I decided to plug my SD card into a Linux box and do a 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX' to make sure I zeroed the card end to end. This, of course, blows away the label and a subsequent format (quick, erase or overwrite) does not set a label, hence the NOOBS installation still fails. Setting a label has fixed the problem every time. |
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+1 again. I encountered the same issue (no label) as noted above, as the SD format removes it. Would recommend that the NOOBS instructions include a reference to label your card post the format, as I bet there are lots of people getting the same problem. |
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Anyone having this problem with NOOBS-lite could try adding a dummy file to the NOOBS SD card before inserting it into the RPi. This dummy file should be at least 200MB in size to ensure that after the partition is shrunk by NOOBS, it is still >256MB. Please report if this makes a difference. Has anyone experienced this issue with the FULL NOOBS version, i.e. when they have the Raspbian OS copied to the SD card ready for installation? |
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@procount I was/am using full NOOBS. I will try some other experiments with both the SD adaptor and the USB reader like using the dummy file. I will be sure to use SD formatter before each run. |
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@caderoux So do you always get the error consistently when using your 16GB card in your USB card reader, but never when using the same card in your built-in card reader? Do you always get the same error using the same card and same USB card reader on a different computer / OS? Do you always get the same error when using the USB card reader on your Mac with other SD cards, or only with your 16GB card? Do you get the same error with both full NOOBS and NOOBS lite? Sorry for all the questions, but it would be great to be able to narrow down the exact circumstances which do and don't cause the problem... |
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@lurch It was consistent on the USB card reader with that card on the Mac. I will try it on a PC as well. |
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Hi there, just purchased a RPI and I'm having the same issue, where the available space is 0MB, so I can't install an OS. I'm using a Mac and have reformatted the 8GB card (using SDFormatter) and copied across Noobs (full version) a number of times - but always get the same message. I'm using a Sandisk microSD adapter and the card is Kinston. I also have a 64GB micro USB but just read somewhere that the RPI only supports up to 32GB. Any thoughts on how I can resolve this - would be much appreciated!? I'm new to Linux and not a developer.
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I've never experienced the problem myself, but other people above have said that renaming the card can be enough of a 'tweak' to update the FAT structures so that the problem goes away. Or if that doesn't work, you could try adding a small file to the card (after writing NOOBS to it) to see if that has the same filesystem-internals updating effect. The Raspberry Pi works fine with 64GB SD / microSD cards if you reformat them to FAT32 first. The trouble is that according to the "official SD specs" cards above 32GB are supposed to be formatted as exFAT, and so that's the only option that the official SDFormatter gives you :-( If you can use a 3rd-party formatting tool to format the card as FAT32 (I don't have a Mac so can't make any recommendations), then you should be good to go. There's more info about this here. |
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I'm having this same problem with my Raspberry Pi 2. It happens with both of two ScanDisk microSD cards after reformatting FAT32 using the SD tool, both with and without a volume label. Same results each time; "Error resizing existing FAT partition", then when I dismiss that window, I get another window with the OS choices that says there's no space available. Edit: I'm formatting and writing the content of NOOBS to the cards using the built-in reader on my laptop. I'm running Windows 7, FWIW. Edit: I got it. I had to share the drive. In "computer", right click the SD card drive, then choose "properties", then click the "sharing tab". Click "advanced sharing", check the box next to "share this folder", then click "permissions". Highlight "everyone" and then check the "allow" box next to "full control". |
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Yeah, sounds like altering the "sharing permissions" is just another way of tweaking the internal-FAT-structures just enough to make the problem go away. I believe for the volume-label tweak to work, you probably need to add/rename the volume label after writing NOOBS files to your SD card. I've still not been able to reproduce this myself (which would be required for me to be able to add (and test!) a fix for this to NOOBS), and it seems that as soon as someone has a successful-workaround for this problem, they stop participating in the discussion here; which is good for them but not very helpful for me ;-) |
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I think that I have found the solution to this. I have been tearing my hair out with it all night. I received my Pi 2 from thepihut.com today and it arrived with an 8GB SD card pre-loaded with NOOBS. I merrily proceeded to install Rasbian and OpenElec which went through nicely and I was able to play with Kodi for an hour or so. However, I screwed it up and decided to re-install everything from scratch but this time to use a 32GB SD card instead. At this point, I copied the files over from the 8GB SD card onto the 32GB one. This is where I started getting the 0MB available problem that everyone else has been having. In vain, I tried everything that has been suggested here - using the sdcard.org formatter, using Windows, using Linux, renaming the partition and sharing the partition - all to no avail. Eventually, I wondered whether there was something askew with the actual files on the 8GB card. I then decided to download the NOOBS files again from the raspberrypi.org website, removed all the partitions from the 32GB card (using the gnome disk tool in linux), created a 2GB partition, left the partition name blank and copied the freshly downloaded files into the 2GB partition. I then powered up the Pi and lo-and-behold I see 29 or so GB of available space and I am now installing Raspian and OpenElec onto the 32GB card. It seems that after the initial install, and after the re-partitioning, something changes in the NOOBS files in it to prevent it being used as an installation partition. Well, at least that's my tuppenceworth. Archie |
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@mcclumpherty Your issue is in fact different to everybody else's, and is in fact because you'd copied the files directly from one card to another card (rather than following the official instructions). |
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Hi Guys, |
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@ACRHOME What you describe is already in the official instructions and I'm sure everyone in this thread had already tried that first. |
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I did the above instructions. What actually fixed this issue for me was to "safely remove" the SDHC card via the Windows Status Bar icon as described by lurch last January. |
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Hi All, Wondering you guys can help. I am having the same issues as above, I have done all the troubleshooting provided with no luck I am getting Error: Unable to satisfy all constraints on the partition. Is it because my SD card is a few meg smaller? should be 8GB but it was bought off ebay When i resize 1 8192s 143M p shows Number Start End Size Type File System |
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@dempsone Your issue is different to the one being discussed here, so please open a new issue (to avoid overlap and confusion) and I'll do what I can to help. |
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I can confirm that redhawkuk's suggested fix from Jan 25, 2014 of setting a volume label works. I just used noobs v1.4.1 offline to provision a new Raspberry Pi B+ with a brand new 8GB Sandisk microSD, and that was the apparent culprit to my problem. I formatted the card with the SD Association format utility (w/ size adjustment on), copied the Noob v1.4.1 offline install files onto the microSD, safely removed the card, booted up the pi, and got a error message saying something about a cluster size (reporting one cluster smaller than expected). OK'd that message, and then had 0MB of free space and couldn't install anything. Inserted the card back into the Windows computer, set a creative volume label of '8GB', safely removed and restarted pi. Problem gone, and noobs happily installing Rasbian as I type... |
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Thank you so much, mRotten! I tried everything on this site and several others. Finally, what worked was changing the permissions! Thank you, thank you, thank you! |
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Thanks @lurch!
That helped for me on OSX. After several tries i just renamed the volume and it worked without any further issues. Should we probably add this to the Readme to have it handy when users run into the problem? |
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I found the same problem with NOOBS 1.4.2 and raspi2, and the suggestion from redhawkuk (setting some volume label) worked for me. A simple from a Windows cmd console, where 'n' the unit seen for the SD in explorer, worked fine, no need to reformat or anything. |
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"Yeah, that's what I suspected might happen. I think the "NOOBS doesn't boot when no volume label is set" is actually a red herring, and the action of setting a volume label (after the NOOBS files have been written to the card) does "just enough" to modify the filesystem, so that parted is then able to resize the partitions." This worked for me. You have to relabel the drive after transferring the NOOBS files. |
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Unclear what the issue is and no activity. Sounds like this isn't a problem when SD Formatter is used. Please re-open with a clear summary of the problem if this is still an issue. |
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@XECDesign I don't know if this bug is still present, it appeared to be a case of if you had a blank microSD without a volume name set (even when it had been with the SD Formatter) that noobs would report 0MB free space. Merely setting the volume label would 'clear' the issue. |
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@pfeerick That's a strange one. I'll keep it closed for now, but will keep an eye out for it if it's reported again. Thanks. |
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Full description can be found at - http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=67449
I have a Pi early rev 1 board, I've been trying to install software using NOOBS Lite using a 8GB Micro SD+adapter.
I have formatted the card according to help instructions but when I come to install software I have Available 0 MB.
I also appear to have a hidden dialogue box which I had to dismiss with the Enter key before enabling PAL mode.
It could be related but since NOOBS is forced to boot up in HDMI only mode I do not know what it reads.
I've tried earlier versions of NOOBS Lite and another SD Card but still the same problem with missing card space.
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