| ekim | hello all. | 02:06 |
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| Bashing-om | ekim: Welcome to the frying Pan . | 02:07 |
| ekim | thanks! | 02:08 |
| Bashing-om | ekim: so what's cooking at your place ? | 02:09 |
| ekim | Nada much! Just downloading Ubuntu and gonna give it a try again. Hopefully on a usb bootable setup! :) | 02:10 |
| ekim | It has been quite some time since I have used linux and wanted to try a distro or two out again! | 02:11 |
| Bashing-om | good deal. so long as ya know that from a liveUSB will not be a speed demon . USB is slow ! | 02:14 |
| ekim | Yeah I know but it is either that or just a live cd! | 02:18 |
| Bashing-om | ekim: Well, when ya ready to bite the bullet and install 'buntu ; we are here to help ! | 02:19 |
| ekim | I will be doing that once I get a chance to test out the distro for a while. I will be installing it on a Asus laptop. | 02:21 |
| ekim | Thanks though and I appreciate the help or will I am sure! :) | 02:21 |
| Bashing-om | ekim: Well. there are several to choose from . I personally have a liking for the xfce environments . | 02:23 |
| ekim | Yes there are. Too many for my liking but that isn't really a deciding factor. Just gotta work with what I have (ie laptop, printer, etc). | 02:25 |
| ducasse | good morning all | 07:03 |
| * ObrienDave waves | 07:04 | |
| Bashing-om | G nite Good folks | 07:46 |
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| BluesKaj | Happy New Year folks ! | 12:01 |
| Ben64 | 20 more hrs | 12:05 |
| ducasse | only 9.5 here | 13:36 |
| BluesKaj | well, some just have to state the obvious :-) | 13:38 |
| ducasse | BluesKaj: you boot your rpi from usb, don't you? is that basically a matter of copying across / and telling the bootloader (whatever that is) where to look? | 13:38 |
| BluesKaj | ducasse, I boot the rpi from the microsd card, then it boots the / dir on the usb. Change the / dir in /boot/cmdline.txt to the / partition {sda1 for example ) This is one tutorial of many , http://www.instructables.com/id/Boot-the-Raspberry-Pi-from-USB/?ALLSTEPS | 13:50 |
| ducasse | BluesKaj: brilliant, thanks. that was the procedure i expected :) the sd card with my install has become totally borked, so i was thinking of using a usb stick for the next one. | 13:55 |
| BluesKaj | ducasse, here's an experimental tutorial to boot from the usb https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberrypi/bootmodes/msd.md | 13:57 |
| ducasse | BluesKaj: thanks, i'll look at those tomorrow. too bad the hardware can only boot directly from microsd. | 13:59 |
| BluesKaj | ducasse, the second url is for booting the rpi from a USB, but so far it's till experimental afaik. | 14:06 |
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| BluesKaj | till=still | 14:07 |
| ducasse | BluesKaj: it says rpi3 only, mine is an rpi2 :( | 14:08 |
| BluesKaj | they aren't much diffrerent | 14:09 |
| ducasse | but nvm, the sd card won't be used much if / is on usb. | 14:09 |
| BluesKaj | yup | 14:09 |
| ducasse | i'll see tomorrow what works and what i end up with, this particular sd card only lasted a couple of weeks with very little actual usage. | 14:11 |
| BluesKaj | i reformatted one about 9-10 times and then it died | 14:12 |
| BluesKaj | was trying different OSs on the rpi | 14:13 |
| ducasse | shouldn't that fall under warranty or something? 9-10 formats is nothing imo. | 14:14 |
| BluesKaj | I couldn't be bothered , had a 64Gb microsd and pu that in my phone and used the 16Gb card from phone to boot hte rpi | 14:16 |
| BluesKaj | and boot card working fine | 14:17 |
| ducasse | luckily i've got three or four cards i can use here, was thinking of only using a 4gb card to boot - that should be plenty. also means i'll finally find a use for it :) | 14:18 |
| BluesKaj | yup | 14:19 |
| ducasse | BluesKaj: well, thanks a lot for the guides, saves me googling for a good one. now i have an interesting project to start the new year with \o/ | 14:32 |
| BluesKaj | right, they're relatively easy to follow, you'll be using a usb as your / drive in no time ;-0 | 14:38 |
| BluesKaj | :-) even | 14:39 |
| ducasse | seems straight-forward enough, what i needed to know was basically what to add to cmdline.txt | 14:40 |
| ducasse | BluesKaj: well, enjoy your evening, best wishes for the new year! i've better get ready to go stuff my face with turkey :) | 14:44 |
| BluesKaj | ducasse, this the simplest tuotial/guide i could find, less clutter than the others , http://magnatecha.com/using-a-usb-drive-as-os-root-on-a-raspberry-pi/ | 14:47 |
| BluesKaj | tuotial=tutorial. | 15:01 |
| ducasse | BluesKaj: thanks a lot, i think i've got it covered now. i've gtg, dinner in an hour. enjoy your evening! | 15:18 |
| BluesKaj | ducasse, ok, have a Happy New Year! :-) | 15:36 |
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| Bashing-om | Pizza ! | 22:21 |
| daftykins | \o/ | 22:22 |
| OerHeks | Happy New Year ! | 23:00 |
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