Subj : Re: Installing on a Pi 3 B+
To : Vince Coen
From : Niels Haedecke
Date : Wed Dec 05 2018 04:18 pm
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 total
VC> storage).
VC>
VC> I must work out how to use a USB hard drive with its own power supply (the
VC> Pi
VC> power is not high enough at
VC> 2.5A).
VC>
VC> How ever when trying to install mbse I have hit a snag and cannot work out
VC> how
VC> to get around it.
VC>
VC> Namely I cannot so a 'su' to install it via make install that is because
VC> (I
VC> suspect) that the su feature
VC> is not available only sudo.
VC>
VC> The standard user needless to say is user pi when starting the 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.
VC> One issue I do know is that the O/S Raspbian is only 32 bit while the Pi
VC> is 64
VC> so creating a reduced
VC> system. The Pi 3B is possibly 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.