Upgrading your Raspberry Pi to Debian Jessie

This is a pretty painless and straight forward process. Firstly, we want to make sure we are all up to date, so: sudo bash apt-get update && apt-get upgrade && apt-get dist-upgrade answer yes to any prompts. Next we need to point apt at the Jessie repositories: sed -i ‘s/wheezy/jessie/g’ /etc/apt/sources.list once we have done … Read more

iSCSI on Debian

My Notes for installing iSCSI on debian, will probably hold true for Ubuntu and other distros.. Install Open-iSCSI Initiator Type the following command at a shell prompt: $ sudo apt-get install open-iscsi Open-iSCSI default configuration You need to soft-link (path fix) two files for autologin to work i.e. fix file paths for iscsiadm, enter: ln … Read more

Raspberry Pi – Expanding DEBIAN to fill your SD Card

Here is how to utilise the full capacity of your Raspberry Pi’s SD card after installing the Debian image which gives a 2GB root partition: Step 1: Run fdisk as sudo sudo fdisk -cu /dev/mmcblk0 Step 2: enter p to view the current partition table: Commands (m for help): p Device        Boot  Start   End     Blocks … Read more