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Banana Pi Cookbook

You're reading from Banana Pi Cookbook Over 25 recipes to build projects and applications for multiple platforms with Banana Pi

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2015

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781783552443

Length 200 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Banana Pi

Concepts

Single Board Computers

Authors (2):

Ryad El-Dajani

RYAD E DAJANI

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Table of Contents (8) Chapters

Preface

1. Installation and Setup FREE CHAPTER

2. Administration

3. External Disks

4. Networking

5. Using the GPIO Pins

6. Multimedia

Index

Booting from an external disk

This recipe explains how to copy the root filesystem from the SD card to an external disk and boot from it. This is an advanced recipe. You will still require an SD card as the kernel with the necessary filesystem drivers located at the first partition of the SD card.

You may want to move your root filesystem from the SD card to an external drive for performance and/or space reasons. Also when having a lot of I/O operations on the SD card, the SD card may become unstable. A filesystem on a SATA attached disk is more stable in general.

Getting ready

The following ingredients are needed when using an external disk as the root filesystem:

A working Linux system on the Banana Pi
A SATA HDD or SSD drive
A working connection to your Banana Pi and a suitable power supply
Access to the Banana Pi's shell

How to do it…

This recipe is split into two subtopics, the preparing (that is formatting) of the external disk and the copying and configuring of the root filesystem...

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Authors (2)

RYAD E DAJANI

RYAD E DAJANI

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Ryad El-Dajani

Ryad El-Dajani

Ryad El-Dajani is a software engineer and passionate technology enthusiast. He developed an interest in computers when he was 10 years old. Soon thereafter, he began to learn his first programming languages. After he had completed his training as an IT specialist, he worked on several e-commerce Internet projects. Currently, he is studying business computing and works for a big IT company in Germany, realizing various IT projects based on Java or .NET technologies. Besides the classic application development, he has professional experience in realizing projects based on web frameworks such as Spring, Play, Symfony, eZ Publish, and Magento. Moreover, he has been excited about all kinds of Unix-like embedded systems since the revolutionary SheevaPlug.

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