Re: Re: Hello from Another Millennium
By: Avon to Cozmo on Sun Feb 18 2024 12:43 pm

I'm busy poking around at a RPi4 and thinking of moving Agency BBS over to it and off a big whirring tower I am currently running the BBS on.

Be sure to use a real (e.g. USB) disk/SSD for your storage and not rely on the SD Card for anything but booting. SD Cards do fail after a while.
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On 24 Feb 2024 at 05:04p, Digital Man pondered and said...

I'm busy poking around at a RPi4 and thinking of moving Agency BBS over it and off a big whirring tower I am currently running the BBS on.

Be sure to use a real (e.g. USB) disk/SSD for your storage and not rely
on the SD Card for anything but booting. SD Cards do fail after a while.

Thanks DM :)

Yep have got a SSD and managed to get a cable and config set up so it boots to that on the Rpi. So far so good.

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Avon wrote to Digital Man <=-

Yep have got a SSD and managed to get a cable and config set up so it boots to that on the Rpi. So far so good.

How hard was it to get it to boot from SSD? I've seen some interesting
cases that house an NVMe, was tempted to get one of those for my Pi 4
and do some downsizing.


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Be sure to use a real (e.g. USB) disk/SSD for your storage and not rely on the SD Card for anything but booting. SD Cards do fail after a while.
-- digital man (rob)

I've tended to find Pi's like to eat SD cards when you have power failure.
Even the boot devices I went as far as keeping ISOs of the functional install just to have them handy for writing back and getting flying again with a minimum of fuss.

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Or backup the sd card to another drive regularly?


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On 25 Feb 2024 at 09:39a, poindexter FORTRAN pondered and said...

How hard was it to get it to boot from SSD? I've seen some interesting cases that house an NVMe, was tempted to get one of those for my Pi 4
and do some downsizing.

Not to bad really.

I had to get the right USB to SATA cable that I could find would work with the Pi. I can dig back and let you know that model/brand if you like.

I then had to download and install a boot loader flash tool that set the Pi to try booting off USB first then SD card next.

Lastly I then needed to run the OS install process with the SSD card.

That's where I have landed so far.

The next thing is what to use it for, I have a number of ideas but would like to make it more than a uni-tasker.

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Hello Avon!

25 Feb 24 14:17, you wrote to Digital Man:

Yep have got a SSD and managed to get a cable and config set up so it boots to that on the Rpi. So far so good.

You should really look at proxmox to move 95% of your machines into vm's and then only be running one machine verses 4.


Vorlon


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Hello poindexter!

25 Feb 24 09:39, you wrote to Avon:

Yep have got a SSD and managed to get a cable and config set up
so it boots to that on the Rpi. So far so good.

How hard was it to get it to boot from SSD? I've seen some interesting cases that house an NVMe, was tempted to get one of those for my Pi 4
and do some downsizing.

If you have been kepping them uptodate with software updates, then your pi4 will now have that built in.
Just image the *.img file onto a SSD and plug it in. You leave the sd slot empty.


Vorlon


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Re: Rpi playing
By: Vorlon to Avon on Tue Feb 27 2024 02:33 pm

You should really look at proxmox to move 95% of your machines into vm's and

Actually, he would be running 2: the host for the VMs and a backup machine to keep the backups of the VMs, at minimum :-P

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Chris,
Some years back Alan Zisman who lives in that area was on the Fido Win95 echo. Alan may be retired from Teaching at a School.
He also plays Piano in a Band.
IIRC his webpage address is something like: Zisman.??? .
Duckduckgo or Google Search might help you locate him.
OR
He may had taught you at School.
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Some years back Alan Zisman who lives in that area was
on the Fido Win95 echo.

I found Alan's website zisman.ca, he certainly sounds interesting, I don't think our paths have crossed in the past. I moved to this area about 15 years ago, I grew up and went to school on the Canadian prarie (Saskatchewan), so my roots only go so deep.

From the website, it sounds like Alan may still be active on LowEndMac.com.

A name from Vancouver that I do remember from the past is Dallas Hinton, of The Bandmaster BBS, and Fidonet Region 17 coordinator for many years. I don't know Dallas personally, but I remember him as a long-time figure in Fidonet and BBSing in Vancouver. Just mentioning in case the name rings a bell with anyone else. :)


Chris/akacastor

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A name from Vancouver that I do remember from the past is Dallas Hinton, of The Bandmaster BBS, and Fidonet Region 17 coordinator for many years.

Dallas is still RC17.

I don't know Dallas personally, but I remember him as a long-time figure in Fidonet and BBSing in Vancouver. Just mentioning in case the name rings a bell with anyone else. :)

I don't know Dallas peronally either. Like so many I have conversed with in the nets I wouldn't know him if I bumped into him somewhere.

Bandmaster was one of the first BBSs I ever called. Back in the day Bandmaster had something like 6 lines.

Times have changed but those were the days. :)

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Dallas Hinton, of
The Bandmaster BBS, and Fidonet Region 17 coordinator for many years.

Dallas is still RC17.

That's great to hear that this part of Fidonet is still in good hands!

I don't know Dallas peronally either. Like so many I
have conversed with in the nets I wouldn't know him if I
bumped into him somewhere.

I don't remember many names, but back in 1995 there was a "Region17Con" in Edmonton that I attended - I wonder if I may have briefly met Dallas then. I remember that Scott Dudley (author of Maximus BBS software) was a guest speaker, I have fond memories of a couple of other sysops but I am blanking on names now.

Bandmaster was one of the first BBSs I ever called. Back
in the day Bandmaster had something like 6 lines.

I didn't call Bandmaster until the 2000s, but did call in a few times now and then when I was on a BBS nostalgia kick. I think I heard he closed the last public dialup node in recent years?

Times have changed but those were the days. :)

I was always in awe of the multiline BBSes in the 90s - I was just a teenager on a farm with a single line BBS (shared on our family's voice phone line, with a distinctive ring # for the BBS). There was a 2-line BBS the next town over, which I enjoyed, but the BBSes in cities that had MORE THAN 2 lines seemed like they must be fantastically large. :)


Chris/akacastor

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Dallas is still RC17.

That's great to hear that this part of Fidonet is still in good hands!

Yes, Dallas's BBS started arounf 1989.

Bandmaster was one of the first BBSs I ever called. Back
in the day Bandmaster had something like 6 lines.

Thinking more on this now. I was thinking of Basic'ly Computers that has 6 or more lines. That was Bob Satti's BBS.

Dallas's BBS was quite large too, he did have two, maybe three lines at one time.

I didn't call Bandmaster until the 2000s, but did call in a few times now and then when I was on a BBS nostalgia kick. I think I heard he closed the last public dialup node in recent years?

Yes, it wasn't long ago but he still runs a node and has a large collection of fido areas from times past.

Times have changed but those were the days. :)

I was always in awe of the multiline BBSes in the 90s - I was just a teenager on a farm with a single line BBS (shared on our family's voice phone line, with a distinctive ring # for the BBS). There was a 2-line BBS the next town over, which I enjoyed, but the BBSes in cities that had MORE THAN 2 lines seemed like they must be fantastically large. :)

I had two lines I could run the BBS/mailer on but one was using our home phone line. I used that to call out to other BBSs or nodes when the BBS was busy. :)

Back in those days each line and modem cost big $$. I never had a multiline setup myself.

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A name from Vancouver that I do remember from the past is Dallas
Hinton, of The Bandmaster BBS, and Fidonet Region 17 coordinator for
many years. I don't know Dallas personally, but I remember him as a long-time figure in Fidonet and BBSing in Vancouver. Just mentioning
in case the name rings a bell with anyone else. :)

Dallas is still on Fido. He and his wife (?) moderate the "English as a
second language" echo.



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