Re: Setting a manual IP address

On 22/05/2024 21:30, druck wrote:

On 22/05/2024 00:12, Chris Townley wrote:

On 21/05/2024 21:30, duck wrote:

On 21/05/2024 05:57, 62hx.1708 wrote:

   BookWORM screwed it all up - and not JUST the
   networking stuff.

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I didn't realise how much until I tried a fresh install on a Pi 5.

 

I cannot believe all the carp I am seeing here.

 Thank you for your eloquent debate.
 

When bookworm came out, I did a fresh install on a pi4 - all good except for a minor glitch with Wayland. Soon fixed and it runs well.
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When pi5 arrived, I copied to a USB SSD - all well from day 1. When I got an Argon ONE V3, with their NVME board it took a couple of goes, but with some help from the Raspberry forum it was soon well. Sill good now!
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 Well bravo, it worked for you.
 Some of us are running fleets of dozens of Raspberry Pi's of multiple generations, and having an OS upgrade required by the latest Pi model which works very different in respect to networking and video, is a massive pain in the arse.
 The options are to push the OS upgrade to all machines and change the way of working, or find out how to make the new Pi work consistently with rest of the fleet - which is what I have opted for.
 

Nice to see the usual usenet courtesy!
I have run everything from Pi1 to Pi5,and although I setup a GUI, I normally run them headless - ie XRDP if I want a GUI
I have always tried to use the latest distro - sometimes with a fresh install, sometimes with (against advice usually) done an in place upgrade - never with any unsolvable issues
For the Pi5, as Bookworm was a prerequisite, I did a fresh install on one of my Pi4s - everything was documented. No problem, then used that for the Pi5 when it arrived.
Seeing the level of the discussions here, I would recommend looking at the Raspberry Pi forum - there are plenty of use who know what they are doing, and advise the idiots
Here you seem to get the idiots advising. I rest my case, and will bow out.
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Chris