Can't download the official image nor the torrents I found. someone, please help me

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It is terribly slow! Torrents had no progress. Please somebody help me.

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Hi @gsalmao

Welcome to a world of fun, odd people and the odd frustration! It looks like you have experienced your first such frustration - don’t worry, you are in good company :wink:.

First let’s check you are downloading the right image. The current stable version is available from here. I just started to download it and it looks like it may take an hour. That might be a bit slow but it is a large image (7GB and is served from a server which does many other things so may be restricted by contention of resources. I tend to leave this download running and come back an hour (or more) later so am not sure how long it normally takes. Basically, I don’t think it is much worse than normal.

The torrents were set up by @Baggypants who may be able to report on the status. It is a community experiment so may have limited effectiveness, e.g. few people may be using it as it is barely mentioned. (Maybe we should rectify that.)

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That’s the torrent I’m downloading. Currently, I’m downloading at 25KBps and uploading at about 200kbps ahah. But it is working now!! Thank you so much :]

I’m very new to Raspberry Pi and Linux, but I’m following Floyd Steinberg’s tutorials, I hope everything goes fine! If not, I’ll keep asking.

BTW, any books you would recommend to a Raspberry / Linux newbie? I already know how to code C# and a little of python.

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The Red Hat Enterprise Linux has some great linux tutorials. They’ll be applicable to Raspberry Pi OS for the most part. https://www.youtube.com/c/RedHatEnterpriseLinux/videos

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I’ll be sure to check these out ,Thank you so much!

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Whoever from Britain that started seeding (I’ve been downloading for about a week with 50kbps), thank you so much! It’s almost finished!

I’ll keep the files in my torrent client to seed for other people, also.

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I added a torrent service to one of my Raspberry Pi (servers) a few days ago. I set it up as a background service so don’t monitor it’s activity. Maybe this helped.

[Edit] Looking at the stats it looks like I have uploaded 2GB so certainly helping someone! Let’s get more people running this torrent…

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I’m having a problem: I downloaded the torrent, I put it in the SD card, I bought a raspberry pi 4 and a touchscreen, but all I get from the touchscreen is a wavy pattern. The LED light keeps blinking: 4 long blinks and 4 short blinks…

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I tested with another OS, it works.

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Can you see anything when you point a webbrowser at the zynthian ?

http://zynthian.local

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Nope. I also tried to enter every IP in my network,none of them were it.

Does Zynthian support Raspberry Pi 4 with 8GB of RAM?

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I’ve run it on a 8GByte machine.

How exactly are you making the image…?

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I’ve downloaded the last stable image from the torrent and used the Raspberry Pi Imager to create the image.

Then, the pi keeps this blinking pattern: 4 long blinks and 4 short blinks.

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Check the downloaded image against its MD5-sum.

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I used WinMD5Free, the numbers are different.

Better blow up my computer, I suppose…

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I’m downloading again from the link you gave, riban. It’s going fast now.

I remember downloading the torrent from this forum, maybe it was a different build?

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This is where I got the torrent’s link.

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It works!!! There is no board error like it used to be… But now, the HDMI displays a bunch of weird colored pixels :sweat_smile: oh boy

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Help, please! :sweat_smile: :sweat_smile:
At least some directions

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Have you configured via webconf to use HDMI?