[Dxspider-support] DXSpider on Raspberry Pi - upgrading O/S to Jessie

[Walter Fey]

Hallo Martin,

My cluster DL8FCL-7 (dl8fcl.dyndns.org 8000) is also running on a 
Raspberry Pi (model B, first generation), wheezy and the  whole file 
system on a 16 GB SD card. A few days ago I made the update to DXSpider 
v1.55 build 0.175. Before this the system was running for more than 1 
year without a reboot or restart of the cluster. The SD card is in use 
for more than 3 years.
Indeed the support for wheezy will end very soon and we should update to 
jessie. But I think it is really better to do it with an clean new 
installation of the OS.
On my wheezy system the cluster is started with an old fashioned entry 
in the file /etc/inittab. This is no longer supported in jessie. If you 
start your cluster also with the /etc/inittab you have to find a 
solution for this, even when you do an dist-upgrade. A possible solution 
for jessie can be a service file in /etc/systemd/system/. There is an 
example I wrote a few years ago for openSUSE that should work also with 
debian.

73, Walter DL8FCL

Am 18.03.2016 um 12:00 schrieb dxspider-support-request at dxcluster.org:
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> Hello all, the GB7DXC-5 node is running DXSpider (v1.55 build 0.175) on a Raspberry Pi
> Model B+ with the 2015-05-05 version of 'wheezy' as the operating system and with the root
> filesystem on a USB hard disk.  The Pi runs headless so all sysadmin access to it is via SSH.
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> I believe the support for 'wheezy' is being (or perhaps already has been) discontinued so it
> looks like it's time to upgrade the O/S on the R-Pi to the latest 'jessie' version.  I could start
> afresh with a clean image of 'jessie' and then reinstall DXSpider and make the other changes
> to put /dev/root onto the USB disk but I would much prefer to do an in-situ upgrade of the
> O/S.
>
> Has anyone already done the upgrade from 'wheezy' to 'jessie' with an R-Pi running
> DXSpider?  If you have, what process did you follow - if at all possible I'd like to follow a
> process that has already been tried and tested!
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> Thanks in advance for any help and advice you can give,
>
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