(11-30-2023, 12:20 AM)japumpy Wrote: I'm building a system for a friend as he's spent a load of money on various streamers and has seen mine work well. So now he wants one.
System:I've installed the latest mOode build as of 30th. Nov 23. The idea was to have local media on the drive along with the system. I've tried partitioning the drive, but the system doesn't boot up at all. So I'm back to one system partition.
- RPi 3b
- SSD external USB 512MB Apacer - (yes Black Friday deal)
Are you saying you are getting moOde installed and running on the USB SSD, and then using a windows machine to add an additional partition to the drive for the music files ?
If so, I wouldn't bother. Just use a folder on the normal partition or better yet, use a different physical drive for your media.
Partitioning a Linux system, with windows software is often problematic. Both the Mac "Disk Utility and many windows partition tools simply don't fully support ext3/4 filesystem
FWIW: Using an external SSD is much faster, and more reliable than using the SDcard slot. Before I switched to using the USB SSD, i would often get a corrupted OS when the power died on our OpenMediaVault server. Even when using V10 or higher cards meant for video. With the SSD, it hasn't been an issue for over a year.
I would go read some recent tutorials about USB booting a Pi3, and apply that technique to installing MoOde. Otherwise just use the offfical MoOde install method.
(11-30-2023, 05:34 PM)TheOldPresbyope Wrote: This reflashing will wipe out everything on the system disk, including those gigabytes of music tracks if they've been added to it.
@japumpy
I agree with Kent. If you want to boot via SSD, great, but keep your media on a different PHYSICAL drive. You will REALLY thank him later for that advice.
(11-30-2023, 05:34 PM)TheOldPresbyope Wrote: If you absolutely need to use Balena Etcher, dd, or any other program that merely flashes a system image to a uSD card, SSD, or whatever, then I suggest you check my earlier thread HowTo: Install moOde without ...."
Because of how Apple wants to push hardware sales by limiting OS updates, many mac users, like myself, can't use the Mac version of the PiImager, because it is compiled for the newest MacOS versions.
Because of that I need to either use Balena Etcher and config wpa_supplicant, ssh, etc. the old way.... or used the Win64 version of PiImager.
