Hello Niels!   
      
   Wednesday December 05 2018 16:18, you wrote to me:   
      
    > Vince Coen wrote to All:   
    VC>> Hello All!   
    VC>>   
    VC>> I have managed to build mbse on a brand new Pi (using a SD card as   
    VC>> total storage).   
    VC>>   
    VC>> I must work out how to use a USB hard drive with its own power   
    VC>> supply (the Pi power is not high enough at 2.5A).   
    VC>>   
    VC>> How ever when trying to install mbse I have hit a snag and cannot   
    VC>> work out how to get around it.   
    VC>>   
    VC>> Namely I cannot so a 'su' to install it via make install that is   
    VC>> because (I suspect) that the su feature is not available only   
    VC>> sudo.   
    VC>>   
    VC>> The standard user needless to say is user  pi when starting the   
    VC>> system.   
    VC>>   
    VC>> If I do a sudo -s   
    VC>>   
    VC>> then run make it complains about $MBSE_ROOT not availble.   
    VC>>   
    VC>> Can I do a sudo -s the set $MBSE_ROOT by just running export   
    VC>> $MBSE_ROOT=/home/mbse   
    VC>>   
    VC>> Then make install ?   
    VC>>   
    VC>> Will that work correctly?   
      
    > become root user (sudo su) and then set a password for root (passwd).   
    > The classic su will work afterwards. This is how I worked around that   
    > issue.   
      
   Thanks sorted but did do an export $MBSE_ROOT to cover it as well.   
      
      
    VC>> One issue I do know is that the O/S Raspbian is only 32 bit while   
    VC>> the Pi is 64 so creating a reduced system. The Pi 3B is possibly   
    VC>> the first that is 64 bit.   
      
    > Nope, the Pi 2 already was / is 64 bit but at that time no 64 bit   
    > distros (aarch64) were avaialbe for it. (Open) SuSE were the first to   
    > come up with that.   
      
    > Hop this helps,   
    > Niels   
      
      
   Wonder why they have not created dual platforms 32 and 64 bit like every other    
   distro?   
      
   Now to try and work out why their instruction for migtating a SD card to a HDD    
   does not result in a   
   working system.  Did take a look at the network boot but not convinced it is a    
   real working solution as   
   its wired link does not look that it is running at full speed.   
      
   I wish they come out with an upgraded mobo with improved bus speed (to match    
   the CPU etc) and 2 Sata   
   connectors (or even just esata). Would get around the speed problems although    
   increasing RAm to 4GB would   
   also help and I would expect the cost to double.   
      
   Vince   
      
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