raspberry pi - is it fruity (about to buy first slice of pi)

[alboy1975]

Hi I'm about to buy my first slice of pi (mmm, yum) and I'm looking for opinions and advice, so this post might have more than one question.

This is what I plan to buy:

• Rasberry pi Mobel B

• 1500v psu

• 16gig sd with wheezy preinstalled

• powered usb hub (believe is needed for external HD)

• cool case with heatsink - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Heatsink-Case ... 19da51fbe4

What I plan, or would like to do with my tasty slice of pi:

• Overclock it within an inch of its life - has anyone got a detailed link on this? (i'm aware of relationship between APM and sdram (seems similar to multiplier and bclk in x86 rigs, but am i right in thinking gpu can be oc'd seperately)

• Use ipad as wireless keyboard over Lan - is it possible to use vnc/splashtop or something similar straight from boot - I believe it relates to ssh or something like that, but need to research that

• Use external usb HD to watch movies etc - is there a way to get external HDs to mount automatically, have read that I would have to mount manually

• and finally could i use a spare USB stick to setup a swap file

Any advice on the above will be appreciated.

Alboy

[DirkS]

Hope you're not just buying this slice of pi .

1500v psu

Hmmm... hope you like fried Pi. I assume you mean 1500mA, though

16gig sd with wheezy preinstalled

Don't buy a pre-installed card. It seems that a lot of them still use ancient versions of the firmware, which quite often cause problems with recent Pi models.

Overclock it within an inch of its life - has anyone got a detailed link on this?

There's some info here: http://elinux.org/RPiconfig#Overclocking (including which settings are linked).

Use external usb HD to watch movies etc - is there a way to get external HDs to mount automatically, have read that I would have to mount manually

Auto mounting is no problem, just add an entry in /etc/fstab

and finally could i use a spare USB stick to setup a swap file

It would be far more efficient and probably faster to move both the root file system and swap file partition to the external harddisk.

HTH
Gr.
Dirk.

[toxibunny]

Seriously don't bother with the preinstalled SD card. It's very easy to install it yourself. Use berryboot when you do