EasyOS 64-bit version 2.8.3 for the Raspberry Pi4

[BarryK]

See blog announcement:

https://bkhome.org/news/202106/easyos-d ... e-pi4.html

[bigpup]

I have version 2.8 already installed and setup, the way I want it.

I was hopping, I could use the EasyUpdate to update it to v2.8.3.

I know, the updater in v2.8, was bad.
You offered a fixed updater file here:
viewtopic.php?p=27656#p27656
I tried to use it, but got this error.

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Welcome. this script will download the latest release of EasyOS and 
automatically update the current installation.
It uses the rsync utility to download only the differences between the current 
version and the latest online easy-*.img.gz file, which is much smaller and 
faster than downloading the entire file.
The script will place the new vmlinuz, initrd, easy.sfs and device-tree files 
into the boot-partition and auomatically fix initrd, then all you will need to 
do is reboot and you have updated.
If you have an Internet connection and want to test if there is a new release 
and download it, continue with the script...

Press ENTER to continue (any other character then ENTER to quit): 


Probing ibiblio.org to see if there is a later release...
--2021-06-30 16:46:10--  http://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/aarch64/releases/dunfell
Resolving distro.ibiblio.org... 152.19.134.43
Connecting to distro.ibiblio.org|152.19.134.43|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: http://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/aarch64/releases/dunfell/ [following]
--2021-06-30 16:46:10--  http://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/aarch64/releases/dunfell/
Reusing existing connection to distro.ibiblio.org:80.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 6254 (6.1K) [text/html]
Saving to: ‘/tmp/easy_version/dunfell’

dunfell             100%[===================>]   6.11K  --.-KB/s    in 0.001s  

2021-06-30 16:46:10 (4.84 MB/s) - ‘/tmp/easy_version/dunfell’ saved [6254/6254]

The latest online version is: rpi4
The current installed version is: 2.8
Newer online version, so can update...

Good. Required free space in /mnt/wkg is 2GB, you have: 116548MB

The rsync utility will compare the easy*.img.gz of the current version with 
that of the new version, and only download the differences. This will be much 
less than downloading the entire new .img.gz file.
You do not need the easy*.img.gz current version, as this script will 
reconstruct it.

Good, the EasyOS image file for the current version is here:
/mnt/mmcblk0p2/easyos/easy-2.8-aarch64.img.gz
So it will not have to be reconstructed.
Press the ENTER key right now, and download of the new version will commence.
When ready, press ENTER key: 

Downloading easy-rpi4-aarch64.img.gz ...

receiving incremental file list
rsync: link_stat "/aarch64/releases/dunfell/rpi4/easy-rpi4-aarch64.img.gz" (in easyos) failed: No such file or directory (2)

sent 8 bytes  received 144 bytes  101.33 bytes/sec
total size is 0  speedup is 0.00
rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at ../rsync-3.1.3/main.c(1659) [Receiver=3.1.3]
Something went wrong with the download. Aborting
Script terminated, close the window

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Do you maybe have a EasyUpdate, I could download, use in v2.8, that will work?
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[BarryK]

About time I got this to work!
Previously, have been lazy, done theoretical fixes, without actual testing.

This time, have fixed it, and tested that it works.

See attached, with false ".gz". Place at /usr/local/easy_version/ and set executable flags.

[bigpup]

Pi 400 computer

Applied this new Easy-Update to my EasyOS for Pi v2.8 install.

You got it this time.

Program worked correctly 100%
No errors.

Now posting from this updated EasyOS for Pi v2.8.3

Well, a good tester, never lets anything, go overlooked.

Just an observation, about the green color, of some of the programs, information statements.
The green, to me, is a little hard to read.
The green is too light, in color, and kind of blends in, a little, with the white background.
Maybe use a darker green

Not sure how the overall statements would look to a color blind person.
I think darker colors would just look black.

Most colour blind people are able to see things as clearly as other people but they are unable to fully 'see' red, green or blue light

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All the other colors used are easy to read.

Maybe a tweak to consider.
When the program is doing the steps of combining and replacing stuff.
At times, it can look like it is not doing anything.
Maybe a progress indicator.

You know, people think something is not working, if they do not see something moving.

Thanks for getting this working!!!!
Sure saved me some work.

Note:
The info you provide, about doing manually, what this program does, is good to also know!

[bigpup]

Pi 400
EasyOS for Pi, updated to v2.8.3, using the working Easyupdater

Still have this problem, not remembering the selected sound device, on reboot.

I have a USB sound adapter, hooked to a headset, I use for sound.
I can select it in the Multiple Sound Card Wizard and get it working.
The correct config file, seems to get made, with correct settings.
On reboot the sound config file is empty.
So wrong sound device is selected by default, because it is the internal sound card and the first one found.

This is info provided in the Multiple Sound Card Wizard

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Looking in /etc/
There are several different asound.conf files and only one seems to be correct by the info.

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After I use Multiple Sound Card Wizard to select the correct device to use.
The /etc/asound.conf file has the correct info.
Card 1 is the USB sound device.

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But on reboot this /etc/asound.conf file is back to having nothing in it.
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I tried using Raspup 8.2.1
It has no problem remembering the correct device, I pick, using the Multiple Sound Card Wizard.
On reboot and save.
It boots with correct selected sound card device.
/etc/asound.conf file has correct info still in it.

[bigpup]

I think we are the only two people using your EasyOS for the Raspberry Pi

[tony]

Having browser trouble also.

Tried to install Chrome as per Barry but it crashed.

Pi4 is dead in this forum.

"Goodbye and thanks for all the fish"

Tony.

[spotted]

bigpup
I think we are the only two people using your EasyOS for the Raspberry Pi
spotted uses easyos sometimes, my laptop has low-end sound chip whatever so I use easy-arm to play youtube videos.
Only 2 gremlins, SCT screen brightness dont work, not a problem watching videos as I sit back away from the screen as though watching TV.

BK
I think the original reasoning was that there is a lot of stuff that gets created in /var that is junk.
Or, it may be a security risk to persist.

Just a small matter of 11310 .cache.7 files in.var/cache/fontconfig, took 2 minutes to delete them.
Otherwise its a Puppy.
For beer and skittles created all the needed folders in var/local for the MATE desktop then loaded all the mate .debs from debian pi, saved it in version control and rebooted. Didnt boot into Mate so tried to install gdm3 but easy would not let gdm3 load. Had a go at installing synaptic package manager to find out what might be missing, had to find about 6 libs, but synaptic would not load, error message about not finding something about the CPU. End of experiment, deleted it all in version control.
Almost forgot, seamonkey in container is allowed into my bank, commonwealth bank, where palemoon in an encrypted save file in fatdog not allowed anywhere near commonwealth bank.

[hundido]

Will EasyDD correctly burn this to an SD card?

Hopefully now there will be 3 people using this on Raspberry pis. I want to give it to a friend with a pi.

[FeodorF]

@hundido

Will EasyDD correctly burn this to an SD card?

Hopefully now there will be 3 people using this on Raspberry pis. I want to give it to a friend with a pi.

That's the best tool you can use for this job.
https://easyos.org/install/how-to-write ... drive.html

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EasyDD verifies writes
A good reason to choose EasyDD is that it now does two-stage verification. Firstly, the inverse of the image file (all bits flipped) is written to the drive, then read back to verify. Secondly, the actual image file is written, then verified. This verification has limited usefulness with SSDs, that have error correction in hardware, however likely to be very useful with cheap Flash sticks.  

Thread about EasyOS for Raspberry Pi4 starts here:
https://bkhome.org/news/202101/easyos-d ... y-pi4.html
Remember: The maximum supported SD card size is 64 GB for the Raspberry Pi4.

[bigpup]

Remember: The maximum supported SD card size is 64 GB for the Raspberry Pi4.

Not sure why you think that is true.
It is not true.
You can use any size SD card.
I am using one that is 128GB size.

The format of the partition(s), could be an issue, if it is exfat format, but that is more about the OS supporting that format.
I have EasyOS 2.8.3 for Pi4 on a 128GB SD card.
Right now I have it with two partitions.
1st one fat32 format.
2nd one ext4 format.

On the Raspberry OS forum.
People say they have used much larger SD cards. 256GB, 400GB, etc....

[FeodorF]

As SeaMonkey is at v.2.53.7.1 I decided to add Pale Moon v.29.4.3 for the daily use on the Raspberry Pi.
Mr. Steven Pusser at Suse is the one behind the scene compiling arm32 and arm64 bit versions of Pale Moon.
Yes, I know, not all sites are supported while you surve through the web but this doesn't matter to me.

The link is right here: (http://linux.palemoon.org/)
https://software.opensuse.org/download. ... e=palemoon

Have fun with it!