Frank <fr...@nicholasfamilycentral.com>:
> Comments below - not finished, but didn’t have time to read all (on the road).
It's a good first pass. To be refined later.
To avoid wasting your time, I'll skip answers to questions that have
been dealt with in other mail, also simple typo fixes.
> Note that my Pi 3’s (latest & fastest) take 60+ seconds to boot & be
> pingable. Then about another 10-20 seconds to be available via SSH
> (depending on wired or wireless)
By hypothesis our connection is wired.
I'm seeing much faster bootup than this - I don't think I've had to wait
for ssh availability longer than 30 seconds. I wonder what accounts
for the difference?
> For adding group changes, why not use `usermod`. Users editing
> config files are more prone to messing them up, than letting the
> utilities make the changes.
....
When did this happen? When did usermod become a thing? It's a great idea
but I had no idea it existed until just now.
Will do.
> Is “Wait for Network at Boot” really required? On my Gentoo Pi's
> with dhcpcd, it will background wait indefinitely (maybe my Gentoo
> configuration setting) , and will grab an IP when a cable is
> connected.
I'm not sure if it's necessary, but it seems like a good belt-and-suspenders
move.
> Regarding updating and installing pieces - do all SBC’s use Debian based
> “apt”?
Raspbian does. So does the Odroid, and so does Beaglebone. That's enough range
for now.
> “The Pi 3 Raspbian implementors” was actually the Pi 3 hardware
> designer/manufacturer (Raspberry Pi Foundation) - they created the
> default mapping of BT vs. Serial. This is not Raspbian’s fault or
> decision.
Revised.
> “/boot” is not mounted by default. To check for overlays, they may
> have to mount “/boot”
It's premounted in the lastest Jessie Lite image. Under what circumstances
might it not be?
> I’m not following the “blink” table. It’s not jumping out at me or
> making sense…
LED blink interval in seconds - telly you fix vs no fix.
> For cloning a GIT repository, I’ve used “- - depth=1” to get what I
> think is just the top, latest version? If my understanding is
> correct, this will be quicker for people on slow connections. If
> I’m wrong about what this does in GIT, please correct my
> understanding. Is there a down side to using depth=1?
Will a later git pull work on a repo pulled this way?
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