Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[sickgut]

I am very interested in learning about clustering, and the rasp pi is simply the cheapest available stable linux platform. Its alot cheaper than multiple intel based systems.

However the rasp pi performance is nowhere near a modern intel based platform and maybe ten rasp pi's is still nothing like a new intel based system.
I am not wanting to create some kind of super performing computer with a lot of rasp pi's, just actually learn how to do it, and learn how to do it with a budget of only a few hundred dollars.

[Lobster]

Puppi pre-alpha running on ARM Raspberry Pi Motherboard

When you get your pannet of raspberries
this will get you started:
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/Puppi

[Dave_G]

Nice one Lobster.

Although this is a start, I will wait for a complete Puppy for the Pi where one can run root.
This whole sudo su story every time I want to do something will drive me (even more) mad.

[aarf]

Pussy has solved the root thing for debian. Perhaps you can get ideas from there.

[antiloquax]

That looks great, Lobster. I'm still unable to put icons on my desktop
Do you know how to get rox and jwm to co-operate?
mark
(and you can run as root in Arch!)

[Dave_G]

Thanks aarf, will check it out.

antiloquax wrote:

[sickgut]

No need to use sudo, etc... Setup a permanent root account and login as root instead.

I do not have a rasp pi yet and i havent examined the debian image that somes with it, but to make a proper root login, where you type root and the password for root at the login screen rather than the user level pi and raspberry user and pass and have to use su or sudo all the time once logged it, you could do the following:

1) First of all log in normally with the default user and pass.
2) type: sudo -i (this will give you root access)
3) type: passwd password (where password is the new password)
4) reboot, poweroff, shutdown -h now or whatever to start the OS again.
5) when the login screen welcomes you, use your new root login:

user: root password: password


This will log you in as root and you will not have to worry about silly su root or sudo -i or sudo root etc etc commands. You are now root and should have access to everything that root has access to, just like in puppy with the exception you have to type something to start the computer and login still.

[sickgut]

Question:

Does the Rasp Pi debian image that is the recommended for the Rasp Pi use a Grub bootloader or something like syslinux?

If so then it is possibly able to support the user= and pass= tags in its boot code (could also be username= and password=), and if so then this can be setup to automatically log you in as root once you have setup an actual normal root account.

This is what has been done with Pussy, but Pussy is a debian live base, i do realize that this is slightly different from a normal debian base or debian arm base, but its worth a look.

[sickgut]

[Dave_G]

sickgut wrote:

[sickgut]

[sickgut]

[Dave_G]

sickgut

With the exception of Lobster, no one else here that I am aware of has a Pi either.
Any thoughts/info/suggestions are a good thing, whether one has a Pi or not.

[antiloquax]

[sickgut]