Hi All
Having dug my Raspberry Pi 4 out I connected it up to the TV monitor and
powered it up. Eventually it showed me a screen in the account I must
have set up ages ago when I first got it. The first thing I did was
update it: That was a mistake because it just grabs every update going
and applies it.
Then on reboot a page of "Stuff" appears. You know the kind of Stuff you
really don't want to see when you reboot a box, the kind of Stuff that
tells you you have dropped a clanger !!
So I went looking for answers. Eventually found a Raspberry Pi site that
helpfully told me you should check how much usable space you have left
on that teeny weeny 16Gb Micro SD card BEFORE you update it because when
you set it to update it will AND it wont tell you there isn't enough
space, Oh no; you only find that out after you reboot it.
So I rebooted again and pressed the shift key to boot to the original
OS. Then I looked at the space taken up by the useful stuff and found
that more than 85% was in use! No wonder the masses of updates, and
there were a lot of them, were too much for the 16Gb SD card.
The answer of course has to be order a bigger SD Card which is the next
thing on my list to do once I get paid.
I was pleased to find that the OS is a Linux of some flavour (raspberry
I guess) though for the time being I am getting happy with the Cinnamon
flavoured Mint on my laptop.
Any comments, suggestions etc. particularly about relatively easy
projects with the Pi 4 will be gratefully received.
Kind regards
Nige aka Nigel Law
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