Re: [mh] Misterhouse on Raspberry Pi?

Writing up all your steps to get it working would be awesome

Rick

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situation like this?"


On 1/22/2021 12:12 AM, Gianni Veloce via misterhouse-users wrote:
> sincere thanks to all of you for the extra fast and valuable responses!
> great guys make great groups and MH has to stay and furter evolve with 
> our support
> i think i m ready to start on my Rpi 3 and maybe i come back in case of 
> any trouble.
> cheers and stay safe
> GV
> 
> 
> 
> On Friday, January 22, 2021, 1:42 AM, Giles Godart-Brown 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>     Though earlier pis need to ‘boot‘ off an sd card, once the initial
>     setup is done,  the usb drive becomes the root partition, it doesnt
>     write to the sd card so wear isn’t a problem.
>     That being said the pi4 is superior in so many respects, e.g. usb3
>     makes startup much quicker
> 
>     I run my pis of small cheap ssd’s very fast, but keep a cloned image
>     on one of the many mechanical disks I’ve collected over the years,
>     so I can get it back up and running quickly in the case of a
>     catastrophic disk failure.
> 
>     G
> 
>      > On 21 Jan 2021, at 23:21, Jeff Siddall via misterhouse-users
>     <[email protected]
>     <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>      >
>      > I recently investigate this and only the Pi 4 has the ability to
>     boot off a USB mass storage device (typically an SSD).  However, I
>     tend to agree with the other comments about not worrying too much
>     about wearing out an SD card.  If logging is relatively light and
>     the SD card is relatively big, you won't likely end up with issues.
>      >
>      > Having said that, SD cards are not generally reliable things so
>     always have a backup in case yours fails and you need to rebuild
>     it.  Consider running ReaR (http://relax-and-recover.org/) to make
>     it easy to restore the Pi.
>      >
>      > Jeff
>      >
>      >
>      >>> On 1/21/21 11:54 AM, Gianni Veloce via misterhouse-users wrote:
>      >>> hi guys
>      >>> as my old Ubuntu laptop running MH is almost broken i am
>     looking to move to Raspberry Pi.
>      >>> is there any detailed guide how to setup MH on Rpi?
>      >>> and are any hints to avoid the abuse of the SD card with writes
>     from the OS and MH?
>      >>> Would installation on a USB drive help in this?
>      >>> TIA
>      >>> GV
>      >>>
>      >>>
>      >>>
>      >>>
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