So... my RPi3's are in.  I also bought a couple of 32gb SDcards.
Stopped by a Walmart (love laughing at the Walmartians, anyway) and picked up an HDMI-to-VGA adapter for the monitor I have for this project, a new 7' ethernet hose, dd'ed the RAT_RC1.img to the sdcard,

dd bs=1M if=/home/geoff/Downloads/RAT_RC1/RAT_RC1.img of=/dev/sdb1
3000+0 records in
3000+0 records out
3145728000 bytes (3.1 GB) copied, 239.58 s, 13.1 MB/s

plugged it into the sd slot on the Pi, then plugged in the USB keyboard/mouse combo xcvr, plugged in the HDMI/VGA adapter, connected the monitor, plugged in the microUSB cable for power, plugged the other end into the 2.4A cellphone charger, and plugged that into the strip.
RPi3 red LED lights up, and that's where it ends.  No monitor action, no nothing else.

What am I missing?


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