Subj : Re: Setting a manual IP address
To   : druck
From : Chris Townley
Date : Thu May 23 2024 00:03:22

On 22/05/2024 21:30, druck wrote:
> On 22/05/2024 00:12, Chris Townley wrote:
>> On 21/05/2024 21:30, duck wrote:
>>> On 21/05/2024 05:57, 62hx.1708 wrote:
>>>>    BookWORM screwed it all up - and not JUST the
>>>>    networking stuff.
>>>
>>> I didn't realise how much until I tried a fresh install on a Pi 5.
>
>> I cannot believe all the carp I am seeing here.
>
> Thank you for your eloquent debate.
>
>> When bookworm came out, I did a fresh install on a pi4 - all good
>> except for a minor glitch with Wayland. Soon fixed and it runs well.
>>
>> When pi5 arrived, I copied to a USB SSD - all well from day 1. When I
>> got an Argon ONE V3, with their NVME board it took a couple of goes,
>> but with some help from the Raspberry forum it was soon well. Sill
>> good now!
>>
>
> Well bravo, it worked for you.
>
> Some of us are running fleets of dozens of Raspberry Pi's of multiple
> generations, and having an OS upgrade required by the latest Pi model
> which works very different in respect to networking and video, is a
> massive pain in the arse.
>
> The options are to push the OS upgrade to all machines and change the
> way of working, or find out how to make the new Pi work consistently
> with rest of the fleet - which is what I have opted for.
>

Nice to see the usual usenet courtesy!

I have run everything from Pi1 to Pi5,and although I setup a GUI, I
normally run them headless - ie XRDP if I want a GUI

I have always tried to use the latest distro - sometimes with a fresh
install, sometimes with (against advice usually) done an in place
upgrade - never with any unsolvable issues

For the Pi5, as Bookworm was a prerequisite, I did a fresh install on
one of my Pi4s - everything was documented. No problem, then used that
for the Pi5 when it arrived.

Seeing the level of the discussions here, I would recommend looking at
the Raspberry Pi forum - there are plenty of use who know what they are
doing, and advise the idiots

Here you seem to get the idiots advising. I rest my case, and will bow out.

--
Chris

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