Probably doing something really stupid but please bear with me.
After installing RaspPlex onto my SD card via the Windows Installer.. I attempt to access the config file to make the necessary change for SDTV, according to the documentation. The problem is that when I try to access the SD Card.. It tells me that the card is not formatted with FAT32. I know that the installer would install linux on the SD drive but I thought that the config file resided on a FAT32 partition that I could access and change..
Any help you could offer would be greatly appreciated.
Probably doing something really stupid but please bear with me.
After installing RaspPlex onto my SD card via the Windows Installer.. I attempt to access the config file to make the necessary change for SDTV, according to the documentation. The problem is that when I try to access the SD Card.. It tells me that the card is not formatted with FAT32. I know that the installer would install linux on the SD drive but I thought that the config file resided on a FAT32 partition that I could access and change..
I'm not sure exactly how these installers work, as I never use them. Instead I use the "Win32 Disk Imager" to place each image on my SD cards. I prefer this method as it allows me to work consistently with all images, rather than using a different custom installer for each one.
I have installed RasPlex this way many times, and each time I've edited "config.txt" immediately after placing the image on the card, before using it in the RPi. I'm not sure if you're doing the same or trying to edit it after having used it in the RPi, which could make a difference. Some RPi firmwares modify the partitions on the first run, which could affect readability under Windows. I'm not sure if this is the case with RasPlex, but it could explain our differing results.
I suggest that you try a fresh install again, this time editing "config.txt" immediately after using the installer to store the image on the card. And if that still fails then try using the "Win32 Disk Imager" with the binary RasPlex image instead of the custom installer, since I know for sure that this method works. I can always read the boot partition and edit "config.txt" after installing an image this way. (Not just RasPlex, but all RPi images.)
Okay so I started over again by reformatting the SD card back to a FAT32 file system. Checked to make sure I could access via windows.
I then ran the windows installer once more flashing the latest rasplex image file 0.1.37
After the install process finished I tried to access the SD card once more but get the error.. The volume does not contain a recognized file system.
Not sure what I am doing wrong...
Like I said before, I never use the installer myself and I never had this problem. So I have to conclude that your mistake simply lies in relying on that installer to do its job. Having individual installers for each RPi project 'invites' individual bugs of those installers... That's one reason why I never use them, instead using only the 'raw' project image files.
I guess this installer uses some format variation for the boot partition, accepted by RPi but not by Windows.
What I've done is simply to download the ZIP file "rasplex-0.1.37.img.gz" from the sourceforge page, unpack that file to get the real image file "rasplex-0.1.37.img", which I then wrote to the SD card using the "Win32 Disk Imager" program. After doing so the boot partition was readable in Windows (I use Win7x64) and I was then able to edit the "config.txt" file.
Assuming that there's no hardware complication you should be able to use the same method for identical results.
