How to back up your Raspberry Pi SD card

 Linux usage, raspberry pi  33 Responses »
Jul 222012
 
How to back up your Raspberry Pi SD card

Why bother backing up your SD card? There is some new information (September 2016) concerning Raspbian images and methods of SD card flashing that may be useful to you. How to flash an SD card with >4GB files I had a difficult time getting the new Raspbian image up and running. That wasn’t because there was anything wrong with it. It was because I am in an unusual position. I’m away from base without my normal Samsung HDTV/monitor, and without ethernet, so I’ve been running my Pi “headless” via ssh and VNC, using wifi. I’d […more…]

Get_iplayer installation on Raspberry Pi with Raspbian

 get_iplayer, Linux usage, raspberry pi, software installation  101 Responses »
Jul 202012
 
Get_iplayer installation on Raspberry Pi with Raspbian

Installing Get_iplayer on Raspbian on the Raspberry Pi Update 15 November 2016 Installing latest Get_iplayer instructions here… https://raspi.tv/2016/get_iplayer-on-raspberry-pi-update-november-2016 Update 5 November 2014 Installing latest Get_iplayer instructions here… https://raspi.tv/2014/get_iplayer-raspberry-pi-update Update 23 Jan 2013 Installing Get_iplayer just got a whole lot easier. Now all you have to do is type… sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install get-iplayer ffmpeg atomicparsley libmp3-info-perl You may still find some of the following information useful. I’ll leave it there anyway. ;) Original post Following on from my original two postings on get_iplayer, (for Debian Squeeze & wheezy distros for the Raspberry Pi), […more…]

How to install Fuse ZX Spectrum emulator on raspberry pi

 Linux usage, raspberry pi, software installation  21 Responses »
Jun 292012
 
How to install Fuse ZX Spectrum emulator on raspberry pi

How to install Fuse ZX Spectrum emulator in Debian Wheezy Beta and Raspbian On the Raspberry Pi site there is a thread about how to install this spectrum emulator in Arch. I figured it was time to have a go in Wheezy – just for the heck of it – and it worked. Not 100% – still can’t get it to make sound reliably and satisfactorily through HDMI, but I have managed to get it working well through the analog audio out – *so you can use headphones or speakers to get those primitive speccy […more…]

How to create a new user on Raspberry Pi

 Linux usage, raspberry pi  42 Responses »
Jun 262012
 
How to create a new user on Raspberry Pi

Creating a new user with Sudo privileges in Debian on raspberry pi Someone asked on the Raspberry Pi forums recently how to change the default pi user. There is a command usermod, which could be used to do this if you first created a root password. But there are a lot of reasons for not creating a root password (mostly security and “best practice” related – and people still disagree about it). You can’t use usermod to modify the id you are currently using, so the only way to do it is to create a […more…]

How to safely shutdown or reboot your raspberry pi

 Linux usage, raspberry pi  44 Responses »
Jun 232012
 
How to safely shutdown or reboot your raspberry pi

How to safely shutdown or reboot your raspberry pi (Debian/Raspbian) (If you came here because your B+ won’t fully shutdown, visit this page.) Of course, we all know you can shut down any computer by pulling the plug or switching off the switch. Most PCs can be forcibly switched off – even when they’ve crashed – by holding the power button down for 3 seconds. But we also know, or should know, that doing this isn’t good for the computer. For desktops and laptops, it can cause problems on the hard disk drive. For the […more…]

Get_iplayer installation on Raspberry Pi with Debian Wheezy Beta

 get_iplayer, Linux usage, raspberry pi, software installation  10 Responses »
Jun 212012
 
Get_iplayer installation on Raspberry Pi with Debian Wheezy Beta

Update 15 November 2016 Installing latest Get_iplayer instructions here… https://raspi.tv/2016/get_iplayer-on-raspberry-pi-update-november-2016 Update 5 November 2014 Installing latest Get_iplayer instructions here… https://raspi.tv/2014/get_iplayer-raspberry-pi-update Installing Get_iplayer on Debian Wheezy Beta on the Raspberry Pi Following on from my original posting on get_iplayer, which was installed on the Debian Squeeze distro for the Raspberry Pi, this is a set of instructions for the Wheezy beta release. It’s quite a bit simplified because we don’t need to bother with installing rpi-update, since most of the needed firmware updates are now incorporated into the distro. :-D  That’s progress for you. Starting point […more…]

Using Screen with Raspberry Pi to avoid leaving SSH sessions open

 get_iplayer, Linux usage, raspberry pi  25 Responses »
Jun 152012
 
Using Screen with Raspberry Pi to avoid leaving SSH sessions open

Using Screen with Raspberry Pi to avoid leaving SSH sessions open (Debian) Tested on Debian Squeeze, Wheezy Beta and Raspbian distros. You may remember from the Get_iplayer installation instructions that I recommended not running the FFMPEG compile via ssh. The reason for this was because when you do something in ssh, if you close the ssh session it kills the process – game over (and that compile takes 3.5 hours). Well I just found out about an excellent little program called screen, which enables you to run processes within a “terminal tty instance”. This allows […more…]

How to mount and use a USB hard disk with the Raspberry Pi

 Linux usage, raspberry pi  54 Responses »
Jun 102012
 
How to mount and use a USB hard disk with the Raspberry Pi

External Storage – USB HDD Sooner or later you will want to attach some sort of external storage to your Raspberry Pi’s USB port. We’ve already seen how to identify and mount a USB flash drive / memory stick. The procedure for mounting and using an external USB hard disk is very similar and equally easy. Until now, I’ve been using 8 Gigabyte memory sticks, but a lot of my media is on a 500 Gig HDD, so I found out how to attach and use that. I’m sharing it here as I think it […more…]

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