Raspberry Pi HOWTO progress

Mark Atwood fallenpegasus at gmail.com
Tue Apr 26 15:51:54 UTC 2016


Thank you Eric.

Is this document in Git somewhere?

..m

On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 7:50 AM Eric S. Raymond <esr at thyrsus.com> wrote:

> This is turning into quite an epic.  But it'll be an extremely useful epic.
>
> Mark, I'm taking very seriously your plan to broadcast this to makerspaces
> -
> reorienting the text and vocabulary to people who aren't hard-core Linux
> experts. Also the parts list is more explicit.
>
> Draft 0.3 enclosed, because I have to start prepping for the road trip to
> Detroit
> and I may not get a lot more work done on it before we leave tomorrow.
>
> New material:
>
> * How to build a fresh boot SD if you screw up your installation.  This
>   is actually more useful to our audience than the official RPi docs
>   because it doesn't require use of a Windows machine.
>
> * Tips for people building on the ODROID C2, a HAT-compatible Pi workalike.
>
> * Coverage of the Uputronics GPS Expansion HAT.
>
> * More tests for sanity at intermediate stages of the build.
>
> * Lots on how to back out a partial installation if you can't make
>   the hardware talk.
>
> I've reordered the steps so that you don't have to do things to the
> OS installation that are tricky to reverse before you've qualified the
> hardware.
> --
>                 <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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