Subj : Installing on a Pi 3 B+
To   : Niels Haedecke
From : Vince Coen
Date : Wed Dec 05 2018 18:30:57

Hello Niels!

Wednesday December 05 2018 16:18, you wrote to me:

 > Vince Coen wrote to All:
 VC>> Hello All!
 VC>>
 VC>> I have managed to build mbse on a brand new Pi (using a SD card as
 VC>> total storage).
 VC>>
 VC>> I must work out how to use a USB hard drive with its own power
 VC>> supply (the Pi power is not high enough at 2.5A).
 VC>>
 VC>> How ever when trying to install mbse I have hit a snag and cannot
 VC>> work out how to get around it.
 VC>>
 VC>> Namely I cannot so a 'su' to install it via make install that is
 VC>> because (I suspect) that the su feature is not available only
 VC>> sudo.
 VC>>
 VC>> The standard user needless to say is user  pi when starting the
 VC>> system.
 VC>>
 VC>> If I do a sudo -s
 VC>>
 VC>> then run make it complains about $MBSE_ROOT not availble.
 VC>>
 VC>> Can I do a sudo -s the set $MBSE_ROOT by just running export
 VC>> $MBSE_ROOT=/home/mbse
 VC>>
 VC>> Then make install ?
 VC>>
 VC>> Will that work correctly?

 > become root user (sudo su) and then set a password for root (passwd).
 > The classic su will work afterwards. This is how I worked around that
 > issue.

Thanks sorted but did do an export $MBSE_ROOT to cover it as well.


 VC>> One issue I do know is that the O/S Raspbian is only 32 bit while
 VC>> the Pi is 64 so creating a reduced system. The Pi 3B is possibly
 VC>> the first that is 64 bit.

 > Nope, the Pi 2 already was / is 64 bit but at that time no 64 bit
 > distros (aarch64) were avaialbe for it. (Open) SuSE were the first to
 > come up with that.

 > Hop this helps,
 > Niels


Wonder why they have not created dual platforms 32 and 64 bit like every other 
distro?

Now to try and work out why their instruction for migtating a SD card to a HDD 
does not result in a
working system.  Did take a look at the network boot but not convinced it is a 
real working solution as
its wired link does not look that it is running at full speed.

I wish they come out with an upgraded mobo with improved bus speed (to match 
the CPU etc) and 2 Sata
connectors (or even just esata). Would get around the speed problems although 
increasing RAm to 4GB would
also help and I would expect the cost to double.

Vince

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