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  • Re: Bookworm on "Raspberry Pi Model B Plus Rev 1.2", OK?

    From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@3:770/3 to Chris Green on Tue Dec 3 06:21:44 2024
    On Sat, 30 Nov 2024 09:03:43 +0000, Chris Green wrote:

    ... a clean install followed by restoring my /home
    will be just about all that's needed.

    This is why I like to reserve a second OS partition when initially setting
    up filesystem volumes, so I can put an entirely different system there
    without disturbing the user files on /home.

    But why would you need to, just to do a Debian upgrade?

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  • From druck@3:770/3 to Chris Green on Mon Dec 2 21:55:04 2024
    On 30/11/2024 13:20, Chris Green wrote:
    There's actually a quite large USB stick plugged into it too that has
    quite a lot of spare space so if I get to feel a bit paranoid about
    the SD card I can copy all the important bits to the USB stick. I can
    do this remotely using an ssh connection. I don't fancy trying a major upgrade vi ssh though!

    I've done major upgrades to remote Pi's and while it was a bit of a
    squeaky bottom time, they all worked and came back up with the new OS.

    Ironically it was a minor update to one of my remote Pi's which resulted
    it not coming back on the VPN. I had to then drive an hour to sort it
    out, and found it had just hung on rebooting, as can occasionally
    happen, and was fine after a power cycle.

    Using an internet connected switched socket would have fixed that
    without having to be there, but I still haven't got around to buying one.

    ---druck

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  • From Chris Green@3:770/3 to druck on Tue Dec 3 08:18:22 2024
    druck <news@druck.org.uk> wrote:
    On 30/11/2024 13:20, Chris Green wrote:
    There's actually a quite large USB stick plugged into it too that has
    quite a lot of spare space so if I get to feel a bit paranoid about
    the SD card I can copy all the important bits to the USB stick. I can
    do this remotely using an ssh connection. I don't fancy trying a major upgrade vi ssh though!

    I've done major upgrades to remote Pi's and while it was a bit of a
    squeaky bottom time, they all worked and came back up with the new OS.

    I've considered trying a couple of times but since it's all working OK
    and I don't really **need** to move it to Bookworm I've not bothered.


    Ironically it was a minor update to one of my remote Pi's which resulted
    it not coming back on the VPN. I had to then drive an hour to sort it
    out, and found it had just hung on rebooting, as can occasionally
    happen, and was fine after a power cycle.

    My remote Pi is a five hour drive and a ferry crossing to France away!


    Using an internet connected switched socket would have fixed that
    without having to be there, but I still haven't got around to buying one.

    That's a good idea, and it would have other uses for me too, I could
    switch the shore power connection remotely which might be handy if the
    solar panels aren't keeping the batteries properly charged. The shore
    power is disconnected when I'm away to minimise galvanic corrosion.

    --
    Chris Green
    ยท

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