<div dir="ltr">Very cool. Thank you Rusty.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature">:-)~MIKE~(-:</div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 3:20 PM, Rusty Ramser <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rusty_ramser@hotmail.com" target="_blank">rusty_ramser@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">"But what should the capacity of the card for Raspbmc be?"<br>
</span>Ooo! I love questions like this! The correct answer is, "It depends." :D<br>
<br>
The more meaningful answer is, it depends on how much content (music files, videos, etc.) you want to store on your Raspbmc at one time. You can have your Raspbmc stream files from other PCs/sources if you want, and if you did it that way you might not need your Raspbmc SD card to be very large. I don't have mine streaming, so everything is stored right on the SD card. I opted for 32 GB, which means I don't have to change out files (delete old already-watched stuff so I can put new unwatched stuff on) very often.<br>
<br>
So if you're going to stream content to your Raspbmc, I would say a 4 GB SD card would be fine. If you want to store a lot of content statically on the Raspbmc, I would suggest 32 GB (or higher).<br>
<span class=""><br>
"One final question: is this where you got your Raspbmc?"<br>
</span>Yes, that's it. (It probably wasn't the place I got mine when I installed it a few years back, but this looks to be the official place nowadays.)<br>
<span class=""><br>
"I assume you just treat it like you would install it onto a hard drive."<br>
</span>Pretty much. I think when I created my Raspbmc image there wasn't an installer program available (like it looks there is now). So I just got a raw image and used dd to write the image file onto the SD card.<br>
<span class=""><br>
"Does that take care of the persistence as well?"<br>
</span>Yes, absolutely. Everything you do on your SD card on a RPi (whether you're running Raspbian, Raspbmc, etc.) acts just like a hard drive, in that it stores settings, configuration, data files, etc.<br>
<br>
A few additional bits of recommendation I'll provide:<br>
1. Be Careful<br>
Whatever method you use to get the Raspbmc image onto<br>
your SD card (whether fancy installer program or raw<br>
writing of bits using dd), make sure you're writing<br>
the image to the correct /dev/sdX device. A tool like<br>
dd will happily write an image to whatever device you<br>
specify without any kind of sanity checking to ensure<br>
you're not over-writing and killing your root partition.<br>
2. Partition (if necessary)<br>
If you go the route of having a very large SD card to<br>
hold lots of static data, partition your SD card into<br>
maybe a 4 GB partition for Raspbmc itself, and the<br>
remainder of the SD card to purely hold data. I found<br>
this was a great way to keep the system area relatively<br>
small and made it super convenient to perform system-<br>
wide backups of your Raspbmc build by using dd. And<br>
you only have to worry about the system partition and<br>
not the 14 GB of data files you have stored, because<br>
why back those up in a system backup? I do a backup<br>
prior to any Raspbmc upgrade, so if there's any<br>
failures it's incredibly easy to flash right back to<br>
a known good state. (I disable the automatic updating<br>
to nightly builds that Raspbmc wants to do.) Do this<br>
partitioning of the card before you do the installing,<br>
and you'll be able to specify the right partition for<br>
installation.<br>
3. Stay Classy<br>
Whichever size SD card you opt for to suit the way you<br>
are going to use the system, make sure the SD card you<br>
get is Class 10. It may actually be pretty hard to<br>
even find the lower classes (slower access times) these<br>
days, but it's worth ensuring. Class 10 all the way.<br>
<br>
Good luck with it!<br>
<span class="im HOEnZb">Cheers.<br>
<br>
<br>
-----Original Message-----<br>
From: <a href="mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org">plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org">plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org</a>] On Behalf Of Michael Havens<br>
</span><span class="im HOEnZb">Sent: Sunday, March 8, 2015 14:57<br>
To: Main PLUG discussion list<br>
Subject: Re: Raspberry Pi question<br>
<br>
I am sorry to say that my Pi is likely a version 1 as I can find nowhere that states it is a version 2. It is also likely because it was only 40 dollars after my 20 dollar cashback bonus from my discover card.<br>
<br>
YOu mention that I should get other cards? Okay. But what should the capacity of the card for Raspbmc be?<br>
<br>
One final question: is this where you got your Raspbmc?<br>
<a href="http://www.raspbmc.com/download/" target="_blank">http://www.raspbmc.com/download/</a> I assume you just treat it like you would install it onto a hard drive. Does that take care of the persistence as well?<br>
<br>
<br>
:-)~MIKE~(-:<br>
<br>
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</span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">-----Original Message-----<br>
From: <a href="mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org">plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org">plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org</a>] On Behalf Of Rusty Ramser<br>
Sent: Sunday, March 8, 2015 14:19<br>
To: 'Main PLUG discussion list'<br>
Subject: RE: Raspberry Pi question<br>
<br>
Hi, Michael.<br>
<br>
Sorry if this isn't the solution you're looking for, but what I've done with my RPi is...<br>
<br>
1. Keep one SD card with the Raspbian image on it.<br>
2. Get another SD card (large capacity) to put Raspbmc on.<br>
3. Get yet another SD card (lower capacity) to put Arch on.<br>
<br>
SD cards are so cheap these days (especially something in the 4-8 GB range), I wouldn't want to completely eliminate one of the builds I had to replace it with another. Not when you can have all these different "hard drives" of SD cards that are so easily changed in and out.<br>
<br>
Hey, BTW, did you get a v1 or v2 RPi? Since the v2 was announced, I've been planning on getting one to replace my Raspbmc functionality, but kind of wanted to know if the graphics capability was substantially better with v2 (like the processing capability seems to be). If there's one issue I have with the v1 RPi I have running Raspbmc it's that sometimes the graphics on playbacks flakes out a bit and portions of the screen go green or don't update for a few seconds.<br>
<br>
Cheers.<br>
<br>
<br>
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[mailto:<a href="mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org">plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org</a>] On Behalf Of Michael Havens<br>
Sent: Sunday, March 8, 2015 13:46<br>
To: PLUG<br>
Subject:<br>
<br>
hi guys, I got a problem. I ordered a Raspberry PI to run XBMC (aka<br>
Kodi) on so I can return the NUC to my father. The PI installs an IS called Raspian (a modified Debian). I am now having problems insralling XBMC (aka Kodi). Here is what happens:<br>
<br>
I ran apt-get upgrade- no problem<br>
~ $ sudo apt-get install xbmc<br>
Reading package lists... Done<br>
Building dependency tree<br>
Reading state information... Done<br>
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming.<br>
The following information may help to resolve the situation:<br>
<br>
The following packages have unmet dependencies:<br>
xbmc : Depends: xbmc-bin (>= 2:11.0~git20120510.82388d5-1) but it is not installable<br>
Depends: xbmc-bin (< 2:11.0~git20120510.82388d5-1.1~) but it is not installable<br>
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.<br>
<br>
~ $ sudo apt-get install xbmc-bin<br>
Reading package lists... Done<br>
Building dependency tree<br>
Reading state information... Done<br>
Package xbmc-bin is not available, but is referred to by another package.<br>
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source<br>
<br>
E: Package 'xbmc-bin' has no installation candidate<br>
<br>
So what do I need to do? Whenever I install xbmc from a n ubuntu based os it installs with no problem. Every other time I installed it onto a debian based os it installed with no problems.<br>
Another thing, I am also supposed to add a repository but this is the<br>
result:<br>
<br>
~ $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/ppa<br>
sudo: add-apt-repository: command not found ~ $ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:team-xbmc/ppa<br>
sudo: apt-add-repository: command not found<br>
<br>
I believe I added the repository onto a debian based os before but if it is not possible this is operator error.<br>
--<br>
:-)~MIKE~(-:<br>
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