Subj : Installing on a Pi 3 B+
To   : Niels Haedecke
From : Vince Coen
Date : Wed Dec 05 2018 06:36 pm

Hello Niels!

Wednesday December 05 2018 16:30, you wrote to me:

 > Vince Coen wrote to All:
 VC>> I appreciate that the Pi is not the ideal hardware to run a bbs
 VC>> but I am 'assuming' I can work out how to use a usb HD (there is
 VC>> no HD conenctions for a Sata) and just boot up and run

 > Um, the Pi is just perfect for running a bbs. And if it weren't for
 > QEMU and DOS door games, I'd run my MBSE system (open to the public
 > january 1st, 2019) on a Pi 1. MBSE does not cause heavy load and if
 > you tar-gzip you bbs every night and copy it to a usb stick, you are
 > quite safe with regards to the sd card. at least this is what the new
 > Wintermute BBS will be made of.

 > The "old" Wintermute BBS (the current one) ran Synchronet for 10 years
 > with only three downtimes to replace a dead sd card.

 > Kind regards,
 > Niels


Going to a different approach by using a HHD but as I cannot get the SD 
content to migrate over I will
use it mounted to /home once fully sorted then replace user pi with me and 
create a full root account.

NExt will be to work out how to run a rsync from the primary server to it each 
night as there is some
security issues that the server will not let any one get it other than the BBS 
ftp area. This is due to
the ftp setup for the BBS so will have to look at the rsync approach. May be 
that will work just have to
remember to NOT overwrite the ~/bin directory :).


Vince

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