Hi Fred,

We are all anxiously awaiting Steve's next installment.

In the meantime, what his video shows is burning the image to a new/blank/reused SD Card.  Once you have the SD card burned and ready to go, the DRAWS™ HAT is mounted to a Raspberry Pi (Any of models 2 through 3+) and the SD card is inserted to the Raspberry Pi for bootup. 

 If you have a monitor, keyboard, and mouse plugged in, you should see the system come up when you power it on.

On Wed, Apr 3, 2019 at 8:06 AM Hirschfh via Groups.Io <Hirschfh=aol.com@groups.io> wrote:

UNDERSTAND VIDEO 1,  WHERE IS THE NEXT PROMISED BOOT UP VIDEO.  IS THE RASPBERRY PI INSTALLED ON THE SD CHIP WHERE I AM ETCHING TO?  OR IS THE SD CHIP BLANK?

THANKS, FRED

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John D. Hays
Edmonds, WA

K7VE

   

UNDERSTAND VIDEO 1,  WHERE IS THE NEXT PROMISED BOOT UP VIDEO.  IS THE RASPBERRY PI INSTALLED ON THE SD CHIP WHERE I AM ETCHING TO?  OR IS THE SD CHIP BLANK?

THANKS, FRED

https://youtu.be/u6wz2kZJ5Vo

The wiki page is worth 30 words (I counted)... and a picture is worth 1000 words so they say, then this video must be worth at least 1030 words.  So here are my 1030 words on the subject.

I go over receiving the board and burning the image from the command line and also from the GUI using etcher.

Stay Tuned for more!

- Steve, KM9G

Jeff,

> Speaking of beta10, does an "apt-get dist-upgrade" get me to the same place
> as downloading and installing beta10?

In a perfect world yes, so NO.

If the following instructions cause your head to hurt then just download
the current beta here:
http://images.nwdigitalradio.com/downloads/

and follow the 'Getting Started' instructions here:
https://nw-digital-radio.groups.io/g/udrc/wiki/DRAWS%3A-Getting-Started

To update without blowing away your config files, to current BETA10
software from a previous image:

# As user (pi)
cd
cd n7nix
git pull

cd /usr/local/var/draws-manager

# Become root
sudo su
git pull

# Check for current versions of some HF ham programs.
# As user (pi) not root
cd
cd n7nix/hfprogs
# The following just displays version numbers
./hf_verchk.sh

# Update hf programs (this can take a long time)
# First increase the swap file size on your RPi
cat /proc/swaps

# if the size is 102396 you need to as ROOT edit /etc/dphys-swapfile
# Change CONF_SWAPSIZE=100 to CONF_SWAPSIZE=1000
# Reboot
sudo shutdown -r now

# Verify the swap size has changed
cat /proc/swaps
# Size should now be 1023996

# Go back to the directory containing script hf_verchk.sh
# As user (pi)
cd
cd n7nix/hfprogs

# Update source files & build
./hf_verchk.sh -u

# Go for a walk or do something healthy.

# Reset CONF_SWAPSIZE= back to its original value & reboot your RPi

/Basil

Jeff Francis™ <jeff@...> writes:

> Speaking of beta10, does an "apt-get dist-upgrade" get me to the same place
> as downloading and installing beta10? I hate to have to re-install and
> re-configure everything I've set up.
>
> Jeff/N0GQ

I was able to get it to boot. 

Thanks for all you help, basil, john and everyone who helped.  Between not knowing much about linux and somehow not having a good file.  I downloaded the new current beta and installed beta 10.

Now onto the next stage of learning.

Thank you.

I was able to get it to boot. 

Thanks for all you help, basil, john and everyone who helped.  Between not knowing much about linux and somehow not having a good file.  I downloaded the new current beta and installed beta 10.

Now onto the next stage of learning.

Thank you.

> Is the command to sync just "sync"?

Yes. I would do it as root because you should have permissions to open
the device you were using.

# Become root
sudo su
sync


/Basil