Re: need sd card backup on r-pi-3b
On Sunday 24 September 2017 13:43:20 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> On 24/09/17 16:30, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Sunday 24 September 2017 11:59:57 Alan Corey wrote:
> >> But what's the purpose of having the gateway fields in interfaces
> >> if not to to be reliant on the routing table?
> >>
> >> But it's worth a shot, something like
> >> route add default gw 192.168.71.1
> >
> > That was it!
> >
> > Now I've used apt to update 5 packages, and its now installing
> > synaptic and all its 2nd and 3rd cousins. 112 megs worth. I did ask
> > it to install xfce, but it couldn't find it. I'll try lxde next, but
> > its entirely too simple. With xfce I can set up 4 workspaces/windows
> > and the survive a reboot. You can add them in lxde, but they don't
> > survive a reboot.
> >
> > Anyway, progress, sorta. I am going to put that command in rc.local
> > just for S&G. Oh, oh, I had to create that file, does not bode well.
> > But we'll find out I guess.
>
> Is there something in the /etc/network/interfaces file which is
> preempting what's in your .d directory?
>
> I wouldn't put the manual route command in rc.local, I'd put it in the
> network interface definition as in
>
> allow-hotplug eth0
> iface eth0 inet static
> address 172.27.200.5/24
> post-up route add default gw 172.27.200.1 dev eth0 metric 0
> pre-down route del default gw 172.27.200.1 dev eth0
>
Printed to carry out to it, rc.local didn't work. I'll try this next
Thanks.
> Even assuming that Network Mangler isn't being used, a mis-parse would
> not surprise me. I really can't remember the detail but I've
> previously come across some combination of packages which broke each
> other badly (something like multiple gateways breaking VLAN support).
>
> Apropos different window managers (AKA desktop, environment etc.), a
> lot depends on what display manager (AKA login screen) is being used.
> For various reasons we favour lightdm, which generally speaking picks
> up the available window managers.
>
> Apropos locales, my setup notes for putting Debian onto an RPi have
>
> ! dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
I'll try that, worked.
> !
> ! apt-get update and upgrade here. Install locales (ALREADY DONE)
> and ! console-setup and run dpkg-reconfigure locales console-setup
> and ! keyboard-configuration using physical console just in case...
> it's ! probably better to MOVE THIS EARLIER since apt-get upgrade
> warns ! about some LANG etc. settings that haven't yet been
> established.
>
> You can see what packages are installed using something like
>
> dpkg --get-selections
I need to see whats available, and for that I need a safe apt-get super
called synaptic. But I've not made x run yet. startx can't be found. But
small progress, installed locate and friends, mc, less and a few others
including xfce4, which seems light weight but still more capable than
lightdm/lxde.
Joining rock64 forum, came back in here to field the confirmation email.
Thanks Mark, I'll confirm the forum, and go see if I can fix
interfaces.d/eth0.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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