Very cool. Thank you Rusty. :-)~MIKE~(-: On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 3:20 PM, Rusty Ramser wrote: > "But what should the capacity of the card for Raspbmc be?" > Ooo! I love questions like this! The correct answer is, "It depends." :D > > 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. > > 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). > > "One final question: is this where you got your Raspbmc?" > 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.) > > "I assume you just treat it like you would install it onto a hard drive." > 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. > > "Does that take care of the persistence as well?" > 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. > > A few additional bits of recommendation I'll provide: > 1. Be Careful > Whatever method you use to get the Raspbmc image onto > your SD card (whether fancy installer program or raw > writing of bits using dd), make sure you're writing > the image to the correct /dev/sdX device. A tool like > dd will happily write an image to whatever device you > specify without any kind of sanity checking to ensure > you're not over-writing and killing your root partition. > 2. Partition (if necessary) > If you go the route of having a very large SD card to > hold lots of static data, partition your SD card into > maybe a 4 GB partition for Raspbmc itself, and the > remainder of the SD card to purely hold data. I found > this was a great way to keep the system area relatively > small and made it super convenient to perform system- > wide backups of your Raspbmc build by using dd. And > you only have to worry about the system partition and > not the 14 GB of data files you have stored, because > why back those up in a system backup? I do a backup > prior to any Raspbmc upgrade, so if there's any > failures it's incredibly easy to flash right back to > a known good state. (I disable the automatic updating > to nightly builds that Raspbmc wants to do.) Do this > partitioning of the card before you do the installing, > and you'll be able to specify the right partition for > installation. > 3. Stay Classy > Whichever size SD card you opt for to suit the way you > are going to use the system, make sure the SD card you > get is Class 10. It may actually be pretty hard to > even find the lower classes (slower access times) these > days, but it's worth ensuring. Class 10 all the way. > > Good luck with it! > Cheers. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org [mailto: > plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Michael Havens > Sent: Sunday, March 8, 2015 14:57 > To: Main PLUG discussion list > Subject: Re: Raspberry Pi question > > 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. > > YOu mention that I should get other cards? Okay. But what should the > capacity of the card for Raspbmc be? > > One final question: is this where you got your Raspbmc? > http://www.raspbmc.com/download/ I assume you just treat it like you > would install it onto a hard drive. Does that take care of the persistence > as well? > > > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > > -----Original Message----- > From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org [mailto: > plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Rusty Ramser > Sent: Sunday, March 8, 2015 14:19 > To: 'Main PLUG discussion list' > Subject: RE: Raspberry Pi question > > Hi, Michael. > > Sorry if this isn't the solution you're looking for, but what I've done > with my RPi is... > > 1. Keep one SD card with the Raspbian image on it. > 2. Get another SD card (large capacity) to put Raspbmc on. > 3. Get yet another SD card (lower capacity) to put Arch on. > > 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. > > 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. > > Cheers. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org > [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Michael > Havens > Sent: Sunday, March 8, 2015 13:46 > To: PLUG > Subject: > > hi guys, I got a problem. I ordered a Raspberry PI to run XBMC (aka > 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: > > I ran apt-get upgrade- no problem > ~ $ sudo apt-get install xbmc > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > 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. > The following information may help to resolve the situation: > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > xbmc : Depends: xbmc-bin (>= 2:11.0~git20120510.82388d5-1) but it is not > installable > Depends: xbmc-bin (< 2:11.0~git20120510.82388d5-1.1~) but it is > not installable > E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. > > ~ $ sudo apt-get install xbmc-bin > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Package xbmc-bin is not available, but is referred to by another package. > This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only > available from another source > > E: Package 'xbmc-bin' has no installation candidate > > 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. > Another thing, I am also supposed to add a repository but this is the > result: > > ~ $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/ppa > sudo: add-apt-repository: command not found ~ $ sudo apt-add-repository > ppa:team-xbmc/ppa > sudo: apt-add-repository: command not found > > I believe I added the repository onto a debian based os before but if it > is not possible this is operator error. > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, > unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, > unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >