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Muchos gracias amigo. :) Yes, I spotted most of that from your bash history in the image, but missed some key points: small zeroed file and the shred. I'm interested in why you only use the default 512 block size. When doing a a partition resize/move, gparted seems to optimise at 4M blocks, for the ...

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How does "df /" in your image compare to images that compress better? Most likely you are just including more stuff. Actually not that much more; wireless-utils and firmware-ralink, plus pre-configuring a few bits. Though obviously the xbmc derivative that I create is considerably bigger. :) Did yo...

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I'm using a cheap "Digitazz" (Ralink RT 5370) one purchased from feeBay, plugged into the top port. Uses RT2800usb driver in Raspbian.

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Maybe mpthompson (or another of the major distro packagers) could kindly explain how they produce their image(s). Example: rpi_pisces_r3.zip is 447.7MB yet expands to 4Gb when dd'ed out to a card, without a reboot. I'd assume that an xz version would be a fair deal smaller - see Puppi for an example...

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In short, 3.7GB is only compressing down to 543MB.

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Yes, I tried shrinking it down (implied by the 2182Mb) but the points are: Your 'bs' option doesn't work with my version of dd. You appear to be writing out to disc in one large block. Extracted images using your method will surely have rootfs as a smaller than normal size (compared to the usual 4Gb...

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Hi ejsolutions, It might be worth speaking to Mike, perhaps he will be able to host the image for you on the Raspbian repository? I am not entirely sure if there is a user contributed section yet but I know it was in the plans. It is very useful to have a pre configured image available. Regards, Jo...

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sudo dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 of=newimage.img bs=1M count=2182 .. for a 2182Mb populated card appears to work - testing now. However, this is not what I was trying to achieve. A 'standard' 4Gb image should be able to be compressed down to the same size, given the compression of the unused space, as per o...

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Are you sure the SD Card's device is /dev/mmcblk0? On Linux distros i've used (Ubuntu, Debian), SD Cards plugged in are just detected as normal devices (/dev/sdb, sdc, and so on). /dev/mmcblk0 is usually only if you actually boot the system from the SD Card itself, with the card containing the root...

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Many thanks. It appears that you are using a 'quirk' of dd, by making the block size the full partition size. Interesting - I'll give it a go.

A few moments later:

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sudo dd bs=3895459839 count=1 if=/dev/mmcblk0 of=newimage.img
dd: invalid number `3895459839'

dd (coreutils) 8.5

Hmm.

EJ

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I'm looking for a wee bit of assistance with creating an image. In the final stages I do the following but don't get the final image to anywhere near the right size. dd if=/dev/zero of=zero.file bs=1024 sync; sleep 60; sync rm zero.file sudo dd bs=1M if=/dev/mmcblk0 conv=sync,noerror | xz -6 -c > ne...

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I've started a Github account, ready to upload a pisces_r3_xbmc, that was just created today. Even though I wrote out a zeroed file and removed it, I'm struggling to get the image file size down to manageable levels. I must be missing something, as even with xz compression it's still very large (543...

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Evilbadger wrote:Cinnamon is a fork from the GNOME 3 project, and as such requires hardware acceleration to run. Without an accelerated X driver then I doubt you'll have much luck getting it to run on the RPi.

Ahh, I hadn't realised that bit.

Then again accelerated X would be awfully nice too!

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Ignoring install-info called from maintainer script
The package gperf should be rebuilt with new debhelper to get trigger support

Is this anything to be too concerned about?

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.. I don't actually hold out too much hope for Cinnamon as it almost certainly uses more resources than MATE. However, we won't really know until we try. I installed MATE alongside Cinnamon, on my Mint 13 partition. Switching between them (and allowing time for processes to settle), there appears t...

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A MASSIVE well done to all who have helped to create Raspbian.

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mpthompson wrote:Sorry..

Sorry? Sorry! You gotta be kidding!

Absolutely no apologies required, I was just wondering that's all. Congratulations on the move forward to an official Foundation image.

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In my messing about with various images and SD cards (and not paying attention), i've gotten somewhat confused as to with images are on what card. Do you have a file that indicates the base image that has been used eg. pisces_r3? If not, then I best get in the habit of creating a release.txt on my c...

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Don't want this important "side project" to fall down too far in the forum! (Bump) In between all this other great work, have you per chance managed to progress with this option? I'd still love to figure out how Cinnamon compares with MATE in terms of resources used. I'll try to find time to switch ...

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masterluke wrote:... I was wondering what what the "clear ;" was for...

So did I, until I clicked it was shortform for "tput clear"

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Feedback appreciated. Yes, I keep forgetting about using a swap file (even though it's used on my VPSes) - what did I say about old skool habits? Windoze users are much more familiar with a file, rather than a partition.

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A few observations.. Is there any particular reason for including DECnet in init.d? Perhaps we could keep NFS disabled by default but include something like tightvncserver instead. Contrary to what other have written, I don't really see any real benefit in having a relatively large swap file by defa...

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plugwash wrote:I've just added a torrent at http://archive.raspbian.org/images/rpi_ ... ip.torrent

Fantastic! That'll save my bandwidth allocation.

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mpthompson wrote:... I uploaded a new Pisces R3 image..

Many thanks - replied to in main thread.
EJ

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Thanks for the update. I'll download now and upload to one of my servers...

(Edit: getting around 3-500Kb/s download.)

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