Gixxus Christ! Posted January 9, 2016 Report Share Posted January 9, 2016 Bought a pi 2 for the express purpose of using it as a headless encrypted 24-7 torrent box. Tried many online tutorials, even the dummy proof ones where I just copy and paste command line stuff into terminal. I get about 95% through and then shit just doesn't work. It's to the point that when I get the laptop out to SSH into the pi, my dog leaves the room because he associates that with me screaming angry words.I'm totally OK with shipping someone my pi and a 32gb card if they can unfuck this goddamn thing and make it do what the internet has told me it can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motocat12 Posted January 9, 2016 Report Share Posted January 9, 2016 Lots of times when i've cut and pasted code from a browser the hyphen gets screwy. Deleting it and retyping it and all's fine. ?Is there any more hardware than the pi and sd card? With a spare memory card someone could buy the pi for $20 instead of shipping it back and forth and try the same process and have the pi to boot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonik Posted January 9, 2016 Report Share Posted January 9, 2016 Paste the code into notepad, not word. That strips the html...then compare ot to the web bag. Then copy that to the pi. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gixxus Christ! Posted January 10, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2016 The site I was using has the code in boxes that strip the html so you can paste right to terminal. The issue is that the pi doesn't recognize either a command or file path. Tried to use my USB hdd as a network attached drive and even tho the pi sees it in fdisk and I followed all the directions it won't mount it to the directory I specified. I also have no idea how to run private tunnel or bitguard or some kind of encryption on it so I can torrent without my goddam cable company getting up my ass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gixxus Christ! Posted January 10, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2016 Lots of times when i've cut and pasted code from a browser the hyphen gets screwy. Deleting it and retyping it and all's fine. ?Is there any more hardware than the pi and sd card? With a spare memory card someone could buy the pi for $20 instead of shipping it back and forth and try the same process and have the pi to boot.You'd need a USB keyboard and mouse to set it up to ssh, after that you could unplug from the TV and run it headless. If someone else had a pi I could just ship them an SD card and they could set it up and ship it back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jporter12 Posted January 10, 2016 Report Share Posted January 10, 2016 I may have to take a look into this, since I don't think I'll be using mine for OSMC any more, at least for a little while. I'f I get anywhere with it, I'll let you know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gixxus Christ! Posted January 11, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2016 Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sapphy Posted January 11, 2016 Report Share Posted January 11, 2016 sounds like you are missing a dependency. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whaler Posted January 11, 2016 Report Share Posted January 11, 2016 sounds like you are missing a dependency.My thought too, how sophisticated is the OS? Would assume it has some basic form of package management. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sapphy Posted January 11, 2016 Report Share Posted January 11, 2016 Pi's use a dirivative of 'nix. The n00bs install is just the bare minimum to connect to the net and launch the GUI if you want. It uses standard nix packages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gixxus Christ! Posted January 11, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2016 (edited) I'm running rasbian Jessie. It's a version of debian designed for the pi chipset. Edited January 11, 2016 by CrazySkullCrusher Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh1234 Posted January 12, 2016 Report Share Posted January 12, 2016 This might sound silly, but is there any way to download an actual image of the OS which you can then copy to the SD card? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gixxus Christ! Posted January 12, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 12, 2016 Yeah some people go that route but its easier to use noobs as a bootloader. It also has the ability to install multiple operating systems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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