Hi. Thanks for the e-mail. Could you let me know where one can get a
hold of raw write? I searched around but I didn't have any luck tracking
it down. However, thanks for suggesting it, because the suggestion
lead me to another utility that worked an absolute treat and is
accessible too. After flashing the SD card, Windows could see the first
partition and diskpart correctly reported the partition as being an ntfs
partition. From my experience,
it seems clear that a Pi will only boot properly if Windows can see the
NTFS boot partition.
The program is called USB Imager. It is tiny, like about 300 kb tiny,
and is available on Windows, Mac and Linux. I don't know how its
accessibility is on Mac and Linux. I think it uses QT on Linux. The UI
is minimal and is similar to the Winflash UI. Given that Winflash simply
doesn't seem to work--plus there seems to be a number of complaints by
people in the list archives having problems with Winflash--I'll share
the details of this utility below.
USB Imager is open source and the source code and binaries are available
on GitLab at
https://gitlab.com/bztsrc/usbimager/
Since the boot partition was accessible in Windows, I was able to dump
an ssh file onto it and sure enough, when the Pi came up, I could see it
in the DHCP leases on my access point and ssh into it with
ssh pi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.
Also, Alt+Ctrl+space did work for getting speech up and going. It's just
as well I had hard linked it to my lan, because it went and downloaded a
bunch of stuff in order to install Orca and its dependencies. Seeing AI
was able to give me an idea of what it was doing.
Also, since I had connected it via HDMI to the tv, orca came up speaking
through the tv, so I fortunately didn't have an issue with sound.
I'm going through the set-up process now. I need to look at the Orca
docs again since I haven't used it in a very long time and have
forgotten what little I did ever know!
Cheers,
Andrew.
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