09-25-2017, 02:07 PM
Well, I managed to get myself locked out, as in despite having power, my wireless mouse and keyboard were not available to X so I was stuck looking at a useless X login screen. I suspect I was missing an X package.
This all took place while I was trying to get an
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auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address xx.xx.xx.xx/24
gateway xx.xx.xx.xx
======
configuration to actually give me a gateway address in the routing tables.
To make that work, I had to rm /etc/resolv.conf until it was truly gone, then compose my own and make it immutable so dhcpd couldn't clear it out despite the eth0 file plainly saying it was static.
But to make the gateway address stick, I had to have both:
gateway xx.xx.xx.xx
and
up route add default gw xx.xx.xx.xx
in the eth0 file, remove either and I get no gateway in the routing table shown by route -n.
So thats fixed. But I had to start with a newly built image, it was not possible to add it to the stretch-minimal-rock64-0.5.10-118-arm64.img, but I found it was dated, and dl'd stretch-minimal-rock64-0.5.13-130-arm64.img, which with the above doubled entries in the eth0 file, is working without the after lokgin, route add monkey business. Thanks for that.
Now I need an rt-preempt kernel to run the app that this rock64 is destined to run. Any chance of that?
And to do that, I need X, something in the LXDE or xfce4 territory. Is there a meta file that will install it all in one swell foop?
I have a USB-3, terabyte Seagate drive plugged into the USB-3 port, which doesn't seem to affect the USB2 power, and its currently running on a 2.5 amp wal wart stolen from an r- pi 3b fed to pins 2 and 8 on the aux header. Nothing on the drive yet. Just testing the psu.
I keep checking the store, but the heat sinks have not appeared yet. Running quite cool w/o it, but its not doing much yet.
.
Thanks everybody for answers to my 2 questions above.
This all took place while I was trying to get an
=======
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address xx.xx.xx.xx/24
gateway xx.xx.xx.xx
======
configuration to actually give me a gateway address in the routing tables.
To make that work, I had to rm /etc/resolv.conf until it was truly gone, then compose my own and make it immutable so dhcpd couldn't clear it out despite the eth0 file plainly saying it was static.
But to make the gateway address stick, I had to have both:
gateway xx.xx.xx.xx
and
up route add default gw xx.xx.xx.xx
in the eth0 file, remove either and I get no gateway in the routing table shown by route -n.
So thats fixed. But I had to start with a newly built image, it was not possible to add it to the stretch-minimal-rock64-0.5.10-118-arm64.img, but I found it was dated, and dl'd stretch-minimal-rock64-0.5.13-130-arm64.img, which with the above doubled entries in the eth0 file, is working without the after lokgin, route add monkey business. Thanks for that.
Now I need an rt-preempt kernel to run the app that this rock64 is destined to run. Any chance of that?
And to do that, I need X, something in the LXDE or xfce4 territory. Is there a meta file that will install it all in one swell foop?
I have a USB-3, terabyte Seagate drive plugged into the USB-3 port, which doesn't seem to affect the USB2 power, and its currently running on a 2.5 amp wal wart stolen from an r- pi 3b fed to pins 2 and 8 on the aux header. Nothing on the drive yet. Just testing the psu.
I keep checking the store, but the heat sinks have not appeared yet. Running quite cool w/o it, but its not doing much yet.
.
Thanks everybody for answers to my 2 questions above.