Installing iso-file instead of img-file on a sd card

Hello community,

I want to install the latest version of Ubuntu MATE on a sd card for running it on a Raspberry Pi 2. Everything what I can find about this process explains an installation with an img-file. The problem is that the latest version of the OS is only available as an iso-file. I thougt at the end it is the same, but when the iso-file is copied to the sd card with Win32 Disk Imager and I insert the card into the Pi, then nothing happens. Only the red LED is on, but not the green. My Pi doesn’t accept the sd card as an bootable drive.

Why isn’t the latest version available as an img-file, too?

Thanks in advance for help.

Unfortunately you seem to have picked the wrong image to install - you should have that for the raspberry pi as a compressed img file (follow the download link at the top of this forum)
Derek

Could it be that the 64-bit version isn’t for a Raspberry Pi and I must use only the 16.04.2 (Xenial) version? I thought every version which is provided on this website is for a Raspberry Pi. Maybe that’s the reason for my problem.

The Raspberry Pi uses ARM architecture which is different than the 64-bit desktop iso. Currently there is only one Ubuntu Mate image available on the download page for the Raspberry Pi.

https://ubuntu-mate.org/download/

However, you may wish to consider the Ubuntu Pi Flavour Maker web site.

https://ubuntu-pi-flavour-maker.org

https://ubuntu-pi-flavour-maker.org/download/

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