Iceweasel and other

[Ollifi]

Hi,
Few questions:
1. How to change Iceweasel start page via SSH?
2. How to change clock/timezone via SSH?
3. What is the best way to clone SD cards with Mac? I am going to have several rasps for the same purpose, info screens.

Thanks for answers.

[tvjon]

For 1 & 2 operations,

http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewt ... 1d64424295

works well IME, as it's almost realtime speed, unlike VNC. This way you operate your RPi just like you would via an attached monitor, keyboard, & mouse.

I would also use this method for 3, as cloning a SD card on RPi works fine & is no slower than an external computer.

However, if you want to do it directly on your mac, open Terminal,

tvj$ diskutil unmountDisk whatever-your-SD-is-in-Finder

tvj$ dd bs=1m of=/dev/whatever-your-SD-is-in-Finder if=/Users/tvj/yourdiskImage


HTH

[Ollifi]

Hi,
1.2. ~ That utility didn't work. Just normal SSH opened. So can you give me direct advice how to do those in command line,without graphic UI?
3.~ Thanks for advice, is there any graphic utility for Mac? Like for Windows.

[klricks]

For timezone run:
sudo raspi-config

[Ollifi]

Thank you. What about the front page thing?

[ghans]

Do you have the X Server installed ? Apple does not include
it by default , but it should still be included on the installation
disk.


ghans

[Ollifi]

This is mid-2013 MBA. So I don't have any disks for it. Is there a place where I could download it? Though, it would be easier to do everything in the command line.

[ghans]

http://xquartz.macosforge.org/landing/


ghans

[tvjon]

Hi,
1.2. ~ That utility didn't work. ..
3.~ Thanks for advice, is there any graphic utility for Mac? Like for Windows.

I don't understand what you mean by "utility".

utility? To do what?

The couple of mac's I've used for this exercise both worked straight from Terminal (or iTerm for example) - no additional software required on RPi or macintosh.

As is often the case with posters, you've not provided any information about what you've actually tried, or system software & hardware.

So, it occurs to me you may be using Mountain Lion or Mavericks? I only currently have access to older machines, so Snow Leopard & Lion.

Take a look at this thread:

http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewt ... 44#p245144

where you'll find useful information from experienced Linux contributors, including ghans.

HTH

[Ollifi]

About the SD backup;
There comes two different, boot and RECOVERY, when inserting my SD card. Which should I backup?
And is it possible to use this instructions to make a backup: https://wikis.utexas.edu/display/comm/M ... ur+SD+Card

With utility I mean app. Some app with graphical interface to do the backup. (Disk Utility?)