Rick Thomas wrote: > Can you suggest any way to get around the problem?
Sorry to jump in, but I had a similar experience with Pi few years ago. I see this board supports network boot - for experimenting it is the one I usually prefer. I setup tftp/dhcp server long time ago for other projects and just add the image I want to boot there (for Pi arm). Advantage is I can do simple install in chroot or for arm with qemu (debootstrap) and setup the dhcp so that the client picks this up. This saved a lot of time when playing with Pi. regards
