Raspberry Pi question

Sun Mar 8 15:26:14 MST 2015

Very cool. Thank you Rusty.

:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 3:20 PM, Rusty Ramser <rusty_ramser at hotmail.com>
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 at lists.phxlinux.org [mailto:
> plug-discuss-bounces at 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 at lists.phxlinux.org [mailto:
> plug-discuss-bounces at 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 at lists.phxlinux.org
> [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at 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~(-:
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