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Just Bought a New Raspberry Pi and a few goodies
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Just Bought a New Raspberry Pi and a few goodies

GM2015GM2015 Member
edited July 2015 in Help

I've been reading around and wanted to have rpi for myself to play and learn with, since I like linux but I wasn't born with all the cli commands in my empty head.

So I've got these:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00MWXUKEY/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00T53135O/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00E0NH9FC/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00EZD3KYQ/

Anyone got a comment what to look out for RPIs?
What do you use it for?
Is it good for internal file back-ups?
Any comment on whether these products were good to buy?

Edit: I want to make the rpi headless, but I don't know whether it should be a headless server after set up or use it as a thin clientish-whatever.

The monitor will be a second screen for my main laptop.
/e

Thank you.

Comments

  • rmlhhdrmlhhd Member

    The one you bought will run as a thin client very nicely.

  • Nice kit you've got for the Pi! Hope you enjoy it and learn a lot :)

  • sc754sc754 Member
    edited July 2015

    @GM2015 said:
    I've been reading around and wanted to have rpi for myself to play and learn with, since I like linux but I wasn't born with all the cli commands in my empty head.

    So I've got these:

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00MWXUKEY/
    https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00T53135O/
    https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00E0NH9FC/
    https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00EZD3KYQ/

    Anyone got a comment what to look out for RPIs?
    What do you use it for?
    Is it good for internal file back-ups?
    Any comment on whether these products were good to buy?

    Edit: I want to make the rpi headless, but I don't know whether it should be a headless server after set up or use it as a thin clientish-whatever.

    The monitor will be a second screen for my main laptop.
    /e

    Thank you.

    You don't need a hub for the pi b+ / 2 unless you have lots of devices to plug in beyond 4. You just set max_usb_current to 1 in the config file. You can run it headless without a screen, keyboard or mouse. All you do is plug it in to your router with an ethernet cable, find the ip of the pi from your router, then ssh into it and setup as wanted.

    I use my b+ as a network file server over samba. It works well, although as it's wifi I only get about 20mbit when transferring. But it's plenty for videos and music etc

  • Wow £40 for a wifi adapter and some cables... Don't bother with a screen (or on wifi for a file server), there is an SSH server running by default and IP comes from DHCP - username pi, password raspberry.

    And yes, a hub for the b+ is pointless - they improved power management a ton!

    Thanked by 1netomx
  • Use NFS over SMB if you can for shares, transfer speeds are much better.

  • Nice stuff, I do agree you only need the hub if you're running multiple pi's (I found them handy for this as I now have a couple).

    I currently use mine for different things, I have one that is used as a mailserver, another as a network file server and final one that tracks aircraft in the area (Just thought it was cool!).

    I'm going to see if I can get another to manage a few applications soon.

    Goodluck!

  • GM2015GM2015 Member
    edited July 2015

    thanks for the comments.
    I assume putty can be used to ssh into the rpi, but happens after you start the gui up with startx command? I've got winblows 7 ultimate. Do you need to use winblows rdp into the rpi after that? Does the ssh session end when startx is initiated and run?

    What about the root user? What's the pass? Is it under etc shadow?
    F* cloudflare for its character retardedness.

  • SadySady Member

    @GM2015 said:
    thanks for the comments.
    I assume putty can be used to ssh into the rpi, but happens after you start the gui up with startx command? I've got winblows 7 ultimate. Do you need to use winblows rdp into the rpi after that? Does the ssh session end when startx is initiated and run?

    What about the root user? What's the pass? Is it under etc shadow?
    F* cloudflare for its character retardedness.

    Simply plug rpi into power & network & get into it through putty, there is no need to fire startx. Root can be accessed through sudo/su (can't recall it). After gaining root simply passwd root & reset root creds & you will be able login through root direcrly.

  • GM2015 said: What about the root user? What's the pass? Is it under etc shadow? F* cloudflare for its character retardedness.

    Perhaps I'm missing something, but what's wrong with the docs?

    Thanked by 1bitseeker
  • GM2015GM2015 Member

    Got this cherry pie working finally without external peripherals.
    I didn't realise that damn noobs doesn't even get an ip for itself or start ssh.
    So I've run through imaging raspbian on an sd card finally following "the docs".

    I'm proud that I finally live up to my avatar.

  • GM2015 said: I didn't realise that damn noobs doesn't even get an ip for itself or start ssh.

    I didn't know that either. I just did a bit of Googling to find out about NOOBS and it looks like it's a way to make things more difficult for beginners. Having to add peripherals to basically convert the RPi to a desktop would certainly be a real nuisance. Raspbian is about as easy as it can get. Anyway, glad you figured it out. :)

  • GM2015GM2015 Member

    @Ole_Juul said:
    I didn't know that either. I just did a bit of Googling to find out about NOOBS and it looks like it's a way to make things more difficult for beginners. Having to add peripherals to basically convert the RPi to a desktop would certainly be a real nuisance. Raspbian is about as easy as it can get. Anyway, glad you figured it out. :)

    No, I think noobs was designed for classical setup. monitor, keyboard, piano and mouse and cat all plugged in for kids and the retired.

  • That definition of retired is close to where I'm at. My cat also doesn't suck up to Corporate America, but plugs in next to the fridge.

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