Hey The answer of course has to be order a bigger SD Card which is the next thing on my list to do once I get paid. Not according to the RPi Foundation<https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/computers/getting-started.html>.
Finally you’ll need an SD card<https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/computers/getting-started.html#sd-cards>; we recommend a minimum of 8GB micro SD card, and to use the Raspberry Pi Imager<https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/> to install an operating system onto it. 16Gb is more than enough to run something, so you could just wipe the card and start again. There is also a Lite version of RaspiOS if you can live without a GUI. Other tiny OS's are available. Alternatively, buy an external hard drive. You can multiboot the Pi over USB with Ventoy (or similar). Keep $HOME in a separate partition and you can distrohop. Any comments, suggestions etc. particularly about relatively easy projects with the Pi 4 will be gratefully received. * Or use the above HD as a NAS server. * PiHole is a lot easier to setup these days if you run stock RaspiOS. * "RPi4 beginner projects" as a search term will throw up loads of content, depends on what floats your boat. * If you threw similar terms into whatever social media you use, you'd find people to follow and learn from them. Don't know what size card you are thinking about but a half decent 32-64Gb card is £5-15(ish). For £30-40 you can pick up a 1Tb HD. You might even have one in the house already. There are more applications for a HD than an SD card, so more bang for your buck IMO. For project inspiration try Hackaday<https://hackaday.com/>. ________________________________ From: Peterboro <peterboro-boun...@mailman.lug.org.uk> on behalf of peterboro-requ...@mailman.lug.org.uk <peterboro-requ...@mailman.lug.org.uk> Sent: 08 October 2022 12:00 To: peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk <peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk> Subject: Peterboro Digest, Vol 570, Issue 3 Send Peterboro mailing list submissions to peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to peterboro-requ...@mailman.lug.org.uk You can reach the person managing the list at peterboro-ow...@mailman.lug.org.uk When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Peterboro digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Raspberry Pi tales (Nigel Law) 2. Re: Raspberry Pi tales (Mike Whitaker) 3. Re: Re: Raspberry Pi tales (Steve Harker) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2022 15:58:48 +0100 From: Nigel Law <nig...@amasonsspace.com> To: peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk Subject: [Peterboro] Raspberry Pi tales Message-ID: <10ed0809-d15d-915e-a84a-8b2fd4cbf...@amasonsspace.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed" Hi All Having dug my Raspberry Pi 4 out I connected it up to the TV monitor and powered it up. Eventually it showed me a screen in the account I must have set up ages ago when I first got it. The first thing I did was update it: That was a mistake because it just grabs every update going and applies it. Then on reboot a page of "Stuff" appears. You know the kind of Stuff you really don't want to see when you reboot a box, the kind of Stuff that tells you you have dropped a clanger !! So I went looking for answers. Eventually found a Raspberry Pi site that helpfully told me you should check how much usable space you have left on that teeny weeny 16Gb Micro SD card BEFORE you update it because when you set it to update it will AND it wont tell you there isn't enough space, Oh no; you only find that out after you reboot it. So I rebooted again and pressed the shift key to boot to the original OS. Then I looked at the space taken up by the useful stuff and found that more than 85% was in use! No wonder the masses of updates, and there were a lot of them, were too much for the 16Gb SD card. The answer of course has to be order a bigger SD Card which is the next thing on my list to do once I get paid. I was pleased to find that the OS is a Linux of some flavour (raspberry I guess) though for the time being I am getting happy with the Cinnamon flavoured Mint on my laptop. Any comments, suggestions etc. particularly about relatively easy projects with the Pi 4 will be gratefully received. Kind regards Nige aka Nigel Law -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/private/peterboro/attachments/20221007/6023ac09/attachment-0001.htm> ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2022 16:03:45 +0100 From: Mike Whitaker <m...@altrion.org> To: Peterborough LUG - No commercial posts <peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk> Cc: Nigel Law <nig...@amasonsspace.com> Subject: Re: [Peterboro] Raspberry Pi tales Message-ID: <a12a4d1e2296c3c1a80b59f27fc7e...@altrion.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed On 2022-10-07 15:58, Nigel Law via Peterboro wrote: > I was pleased to find that the OS is a Linux of some flavour > (raspberry I guess) though for the time being I am getting happy with > the Cinnamon flavoured Mint on my laptop. 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