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by Blanny
Sat Jan 16, 2016 1:35 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Questions about adding an external HDD
Replies: 3
Views: 571

Questions about adding an external HDD

OK, so I have managed to install the latest version of Raspbian-Jessie to a SD card. I put it in my Pi and have done "Sudo apt-get update", "Sudo apt-get upgrade" and "rpi-update". The next thing I want to do is introduce an external USB HDD. The device currently has no partitions set and, therefore...
by Blanny
Thu Oct 23, 2014 4:27 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Epiphany browser
Replies: 4
Views: 1280

Re: Epiphany browser

Yes I have checked the settings, they are pretty basic. There isn't even an option to turn history off.

P.S. I am running the Raspberry Pi/Raspbian version.
by Blanny
Thu Oct 23, 2014 4:00 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Epiphany browser
Replies: 4
Views: 1280

Epiphany browser

Does anyone know if it is possible to change the new tab button so that it opens my default browser or even just a blank page please? I'm getting sick of having to clear my history all the time to get rid of the tabs.
by Blanny
Tue Oct 21, 2014 6:44 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Hard Drive
Replies: 17
Views: 2001

Re: Hard Drive

OK well thank you everybody for your help.
by Blanny
Tue Oct 21, 2014 6:24 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Hard Drive
Replies: 17
Views: 2001

Re: Hard Drive

That fstab file currently looks like this to me: proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/mmcblk0p1 /boot vfat defaults 0 2 /dev/sda2 / ext4 defaults,noatime 0 1 # a swapfile is not a swap partition, so no using swapon|off from here on, use $ /dev/sda1 none swap sw 0 0
by Blanny
Tue Oct 21, 2014 6:21 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Hard Drive
Replies: 17
Views: 2001

Re: Hard Drive

That seems to have worked and it has survived a reboot. Out of curiosity, should I add a reference to sda3 in that fstab file and what should it be?
by Blanny
Tue Oct 21, 2014 6:09 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Hard Drive
Replies: 17
Views: 2001

Re: Hard Drive

Use gparted +1 Although I have been a *nix sysadmin for years, I still like to see what I'm doing when it comes to laying out disks. You really don't want to change the ownership of / from root to another user (especially when you have 500+ users on it, but that is another story...) Yes, I am happy...
by Blanny
Tue Oct 21, 2014 6:05 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Hard Drive
Replies: 17
Views: 2001

Re: Hard Drive

So I repeated that command for each of the folders on the partition but the sub-folders still belong to root. Is there a recursive command please?
by Blanny
Tue Oct 21, 2014 5:58 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Hard Drive
Replies: 17
Views: 2001

Re: Hard Drive

Hmm, it seems that the partition now belongs to Pi but the files and folders within it still belong to root. Is the Raspberry Pi/Raspbian supposed to be a pain in the arse to use or is it just me? lol
by Blanny
Tue Oct 21, 2014 5:49 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Hard Drive
Replies: 17
Views: 2001

Re: Hard Drive

sudo chown pi:pi /media/Storage
seems to have sorted it. There was no mention of sda3 in that fstab file but Raspbian seems to mount it on startup anyway.
by Blanny
Tue Oct 21, 2014 2:11 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Hard Drive
Replies: 17
Views: 2001

Re: Hard Drive

you probably have not done what you think you have done, Thank you for the vote of confidence. I followed the instructions here: http://www.genis-x.com/raspberry-pi-running-from-usb-hard-drive I had to use nano instead of vi because vi seemed to think the file was read-only and nano seemed a lot ea...
by Blanny
Mon Oct 20, 2014 11:30 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Hard Drive
Replies: 17
Views: 2001

Re: Hard Drive

Care to be more specific?
by Blanny
Mon Oct 20, 2014 10:09 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Hard Drive
Replies: 17
Views: 2001

Hard Drive

I have just set up my 500Gb USB HD to run my OS (Raspbian) from the Hard Drive. I think I've been successful in doing this. I removed all partitions and then created a 2Gb swapfile partition, an 18Gb partition for the OS and then a third partition using the remaining space which I want to use to sto...
by Blanny
Thu Oct 16, 2014 9:53 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Bit-Torrent client
Replies: 8
Views: 1168

Re: Bit-Torrent client

You refer to "duplicate posts" three times in your post. Who made any duplicate posts? The topics were different in both cases, as were the original posts. I clearly explained why I took the decision to end the first post and start another. The original thread was difficult to read for anybody with ...
by Blanny
Thu Oct 16, 2014 7:59 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Bit-Torrent client
Replies: 8
Views: 1168

Re: My thread disappeared? - Bit-Torrent client

Thank you again for your help
by Blanny
Thu Oct 16, 2014 6:12 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Bit-Torrent client
Replies: 8
Views: 1168

Re: My thread disappeared? - Bit-Torrent client

I ignore the bit about the watch port and I never bothered setting up a static I.P. and everything seems to work now. Thank you to default_user8 for your help if you have managed to find this thread.

The OCD moderator can feel free to delete both threads now.
by Blanny
Thu Oct 16, 2014 5:37 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Bit-Torrent client
Replies: 8
Views: 1168

Re: My thread disappeared? - Bit-Torrent client

Then the old thread should have been deleted, not the new one.
by Blanny
Thu Oct 16, 2014 5:25 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Bit-Torrent client
Replies: 8
Views: 1168

Bit-Torrent client

For some reason my thread seems to have gone missing. I was talking to default_user8 about setting up a bit-torrent client. I have got as far as: 5. Find watch-dir and change it into /home/pi/torrentwatch or whatever the name of the folder you have prepared before. I can find no mention of "watch-di...
by Blanny
Thu Oct 16, 2014 12:40 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Downloading torrents
Replies: 20
Views: 7302

Re: Downloading torrents

That tutorial seems to require a PC, which I don't have. Like I say, this is also detracting from my original post so I think I'm going to abandon this thread and make another.

Thanks for your input though.
by Blanny
Thu Oct 16, 2014 12:06 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Downloading torrents
Replies: 20
Views: 7302

Re: Downloading torrents

This isn't really addressing my issue of how to set my Pi up to download torrents but it sounds like a good idea regardless. My Pi seems to run extremely slowly and I had been wondering if it was because the pre-installed NOOBS card is only class 4. Like I say, I am new to Pi's/Linux/Raspbian etc th...
by Blanny
Thu Oct 16, 2014 11:40 am
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Downloading torrents
Replies: 20
Views: 7302

Re: Downloading torrents

Your first post proposed moving some root files to a USB pen drive. Now you are saying I can run my Pi and entire OS from my external HD? Is that correct?
by Blanny
Thu Oct 16, 2014 11:33 am
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Downloading torrents
Replies: 20
Views: 7302

Re: Downloading torrents

I'll try Deluge next, lol. Let's see how that goes.

http://www.howtogeek.com/142044/how-to- ... orrent-box
by Blanny
Thu Oct 16, 2014 11:27 am
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Downloading torrents
Replies: 20
Views: 7302

Re: Downloading torrents

Thank you for your reply but I managed to re-install my OS using the recovery function. What I am looking for is a clear, step-by-step tutorial that explains how to use my standalone Raspberry Pi B+ to download torrent files.
by Blanny
Thu Oct 16, 2014 10:44 am
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Downloading torrents
Replies: 20
Views: 7302

Re: Downloading torrents

Back again ;) Well I was up and running. The program suddenly told me that my SD card was full, then that it was corrupt and then my Pi crashed and wouldn't start up again. I reinstalled Raspbian using the recovery process and decided to try a program called aria2. I followed all the instructions an...
by Blanny
Wed Oct 15, 2014 7:00 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Hard Drive address/location?
Replies: 2
Views: 387

Re: Hard Drive address/location?

Solved, thank you.

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