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For both things)</div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=41672.27&return_msg=41672.27" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="41672.27"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a41672_28"></a><div class="message" id="message_41672_28"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: koswix<span class="message_time">25 Jan 2016 13:33</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: Drew (X3N0PH0N) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 25 Jan 2016 13:34"></span></span> <span class="message_count">28 of 101</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41672.28">41672.28</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41672.27#a41672_27" target="_self">41672.27</a></div> <div class="message_body"> Why the fuck didn't I do that? I have a fucing bootable USB stick on my keychain with a linux on it. Such an asshole.</div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=41672.28&return_msg=41672.27" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="41672.28"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a41672_29"></a><div class="message" id="message_41672_29"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Drew (X3N0PH0N)<span class="message_time">25 Jan 2016 13:34</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: koswix <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 25 Jan 2016 13:48"></span></span> <span class="message_count">29 of 101</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41672.29">41672.29</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41672.27#a41672_28" target="_self">41672.28</a></div> <div class="message_body"> <span class="emoticon e_giggle" title="(giggle)"><span class="e__">(giggle)</span></span></div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=41672.29&return_msg=41672.27" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="41672.29"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a41672_30"></a><div class="message" id="message_41672_30"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: ANT_THOMAS<span class="message_time">25 Jan 2016 13:34</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: koswix <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 25 Jan 2016 13:48"></span></span> <span class="message_count">30 of 101</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41672.30">41672.30</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41672.27#a41672_28" target="_self">41672.28</a></div> <div class="message_body"> Gparted on whatever bootable linux you have. Always the best way to sort things (or trash them if you need to).</div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=41672.30&return_msg=41672.27" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="41672.30"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a41672_31"></a><div class="message" id="message_41672_31"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: koswix<span class="message_time">25 Jan 2016 13:48</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: ANT_THOMAS <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 25 Jan 2016 14:07"></span></span> <span class="message_count">31 of 101</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41672.31">41672.31</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41672.27#a41672_30" target="_self">41672.30</a></div> <div class="message_body"> See, I knew that. Just didn't occur to me. Such a dumb fuck today. </div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=41672.31&return_msg=41672.27" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="41672.31"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a41672_32"></a><div class="message" id="message_41672_32"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: koswix<span class="message_time">25 Jan 2016 13:52</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: koswix <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 25 Jan 2016 13:52"></span></span> <span class="message_count">32 of 101</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41672.32">41672.32</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41672.27#a41672_31" target="_self">41672.31</a></div> <div class="message_body"> Finally writing the raspbian image to my SD card. <br /><br /> Going to experiment with a couple of things tonight: writing software for the pi to display data coming over the SPI line on screen in whatever window manager raspian uses and then Interfacing the PI with an arduino LCD-keypad shield (and shoving some of the SPI data I'm reading over to the LCD). <br /><br /> If I can make all that work then my laser cutter is going to be fucking /awesome/.</div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=41672.32&return_msg=41672.27" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="41672.32"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a41672_33"></a><div class="message" id="message_41672_33"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Manthorp<span class="message_time">25 Jan 2016 14:29</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: Drew (X3N0PH0N) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 25 Jan 2016 14:31"></span></span> <span class="message_count">33 of 101</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41672.33">41672.33</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41672.5">41672.5</a></div> <div class="message_body"> I've managed to get it to boot into a fullscreen terminal, but can't autologin. I tried your first <a href="http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/debian-26/how-to-enable-automatic-login-on-debian-8-jessie-for-console-4175550342/">link</a> and I was able to create the directory and autologin.conf file, but I then didn't have permission to modify it with the code<br /> <div class="quotetext"><strong>Quote:</strong> </div> <div class="quote"> <pre class="bbcodeblock" style="font-size:13.3333px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:-99999px;margin-bottom:0px;padding:3px;border:1px inset;width:797.719px;height:322px;background-color:rgb(230,230,230);"> [Service] ExecStart= ExecStart=-/sbin/agetty --autologin $username --noclear I 38400 linux</pre> </div> None of the keyboard commands I knew (Ctrl+O, Ctrl+X) would let me write to the file.<div class="edit_text">EDITED: 25 Jan 2016 14:31 by MANTHORP</div> </div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=41672.33&return_msg=41672.27" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="41672.33"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a41672_34"></a><div class="message" id="message_41672_34"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Manthorp<span class="message_time">25 Jan 2016 14:33</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: koswix <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 25 Jan 2016 15:15"></span></span> <span class="message_count">34 of 101</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41672.34">41672.34</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41672.27#a41672_32" target="_self">41672.32</a></div> <div class="message_body"> Great, now fuck off out of my thread. xxx</div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=41672.34&return_msg=41672.27" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="41672.34"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a41672_35"></a><div class="message" id="message_41672_35"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Drew (X3N0PH0N)<span class="message_time">25 Jan 2016 14:33</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: Manthorp <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 25 Jan 2016 14:38"></span></span> <span class="message_count">35 of 101</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41672.35">41672.35</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41672.27#a41672_33" target="_self">41672.33</a></div> <div class="message_body"> You need to both create the directory/file and edit the file as root (so use sudo).<br /><br /> If you're using nano then to save the file you press ctrl+x then it'll ask for confirmation so press y then press enter to accept the location.<br /><br /> Or did something else go wrong?</div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=41672.35&return_msg=41672.27" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="41672.35"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a41672_36"></a><div class="message" id="message_41672_36"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Manthorp<span class="message_time">25 Jan 2016 14:42</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: Drew (X3N0PH0N) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 25 Jan 2016 14:43"></span></span> <span class="message_count">36 of 101</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41672.36">41672.36</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41672.27#a41672_35" target="_self">41672.35</a></div> <div class="message_body"> Yeah, I did exactly as you described and managed to create the folder and was able to write the file content, but when I got to trying to save it, Ctrl-X (or Ctrl-O) it refused to modify the file. <br /><br /> It said it was complete with errors, and the error was that it hadn't done it. A fairly liberal interpretation of 'complete', I felt.</div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=41672.36&return_msg=41672.27" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="41672.36"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="message_page_footer"> <ul> <li class="right_col"><form accept-charset="utf-8" method="get" action="lmessages.php" target="_self"><input type="hidden" name="webtag" id="webtag" class="bhinputtext" value="DEFAULT" dir="ltr" /><input type="hidden" name="msg" id="msg" class="bhinputtext" value="41672.37" dir="ltr" /><input type="submit" name="submit" id="keep_reading" value="Keep reading…" class="button" /></form></li> </ul> </div> </div> </body>