Hello Rudy and others,

>> You are not a beginner anymore he?

> On the contrary. With less than just three months of Raspberry behind
> my belt I still consider myself very much a beginner.

I am now running Raspbian (not NOOBS) since 2012, and I feel my self even a
beginner in Linux. I tried NOOBS only once ;-(.
RISC OS is also available via NOOBS or by an original direct image.
Since I discovered differencies between the NOOBS versions of Raspbian Linux,
RISC OS and their original compleet ones, I never used NOOBS anymore.
I do not like incomplete software.
So I Also run RISC OS 5.24 on another Pi with !RosBink for FidoNet.
I have RISC OS experience from 1987, and also their predecessor Acorn BBC B
since 1984.

From a "speech to text reporter" (I am deaf) i borrowed his Linux studybooks.

>> There was also a trick to not decompress the donwloaded SDcard image
>> on a storage media, but deflate it during writing to a fresh
>> (micro-)SDcard, in particular if the zip file is smaller than 4 GB,

> :-)  I just noticed that unzipping the NOOBS image to disk first and
> than to
> the sd card speeds the whole process up quite a bit for me.

Stop using NOOBS for serious tasks, and start installing Raspbian images,
by the link I gave you before.

The advantage of doing decompression and writing (micro-)SDcard is:
first speed, because you are combining 2 steps in one go,
and second to avoid the 4 GB limit omf some storage meadia formats like FAT32.
It reduces disk access and time.
So I hope to find that trick agian.

Henri.

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