If you have the right soldering gear/skills, and can get hold of the components, then yes you can do it. (Make sure you get the right type of network socket. It has to be one with the isolating transformers built in). However, it would be cheaper and safer to just get a model B and then you get the ...
Does the green ACT LED do anything at all? Does it flash even once? Does it glow very dimly? When you put the card in your Mac, what files do you see at the top level? The usual culprits are: a) Power supply insufficient. But you should get some response using that supply. b) Card not written correc...
I'm just disappointed that I never get any calls from people like this. I'd like to play with them for a while. I'd tell them how old I am and that all this computer stuff is for youngsters, probably mention that I'm not sure what windows I use, but it might have a "5" in it (technically true to an ...
Yes, fbset will allow you to change the resolution of the framebuffer to pretty much anything you want, but the output will still get remapped to the 720x576 (or something like that) which is all the composite PAL supports. (Slightly different res for NTSC). 800x600 will look just slightly fuzzy wit...
I think this is not really a Pi related problem. Setting your Pi to be a PXE server should be relatively simple. All it does it make a file available over tftp or similar. The rest is up to the PC. What your problem appears to be is that you need to build an image that will run on your PC to load th...
Are you saying you put entries like these in your /etc/fstab? sudo mount.cifs //192.168.1.4/Data /media/lappy -o username=makem,password=xxxxxx,domain=MYHOME sudo mount.cifs //192.168.1.6/HUMAX /media/humax -o username=makem,password=xxxxxx,domain=MYHOME Because that is completely the wrong format f...
Debian Jessie and Raspbian Jessie don't really have anything to do with it. The kernel is built by the Foundation with patches for the Pi. Raspbian and (at least some of) the other Linuxes use that kernel. Raspbian Jessie is available, but it doesn't come with a newer kernel than the Wheezy version....
You can use the tvservice command to change the video output size and type. You would then have to use fbset twice to set the frame buffer to match (I can't remember the required syntax, but it's on the forums somewhere), and there might be a command to... ah, xrefresh will redraw the desktop in the...
I was working on a script that could make a working copy of a Raspbian system to another card on a Pi using just a USB card reader. By running it in "safe mode", the OS was completely held in RAM, so no problems with the card being updated during the copy. One advantage of it was that it would trans...
If you mean just the files that are visible to windows - No. That is no use at all. Windows can only see some of the boot files, but not the main Linux file system. You can use the windows imager program to read the whole SD card and write that to a file. Then that file can later be written back to ...
This error occurs when I am on another computer and using the form that resides on the Raspberry Pi. How do I change my connection string in PHP to make that work? Do I just change the ip adress in the connection string to 127.0.0.1? Yes. :) Even though you are viewing the web form on another compu...
Thank you for the replies I will continue to try and find a solution for my "mysql-server" install issue. I don't see any issue. Just things doing what they are supposed to do. Is there a problem when you try to install mysql-server? If you don't want to install unneeded packages, you could just in...
I've just downloaded the latest NOOBS zip file version 1.2.1
The MD5 checksum is eac90060227e1cea01b2c921bb23a775, and the file is 1,187,724,964 bytes long. It unzipped OK on my Debian laptop, so I assume it is correct. I don't have a spare SD card to hand test it with.
is there a way to limit restrict installs to only those that are explicitly requested. Example when sudo apt-get install mysql-server extra packages mysql-server-5.5 In your example case - no. mysql-server is a "meta-package". It doesn't contain anything, it just requires that the current mysql-ser...
The code that ednl mentions is already in your .bash_profile and will get executed when you log in. No it isn't, not in the latest Raspbian image anyway. That code is in .profile, not in .bash_profile which doesn't exist by default. Ok, I sit corrected, but as Joe said - the code is already in ther...
I prefer manually mounting devices (except for my camera where I have a udev rule to run a script to transfer pictures to me NAS). I find that a couple of entries in /etc/fstab, and possibly setting some groups, is sufficient for 99% of my needs when using the mount command. In my fstab I have somet...