09-Aug-2023, 07:48 PM
(06-Aug-2023, 08:09 PM)uglymusic Wrote: [ -> ](06-Aug-2023, 09:14 AM)agent_kith Wrote: [ -> ](04-Aug-2023, 02:16 PM)uglymusic Wrote: [ -> ]Yes, I know that. I should have been more exact and said I have tried 32-bit versions of Bullseye and Buster...aarch64 is "Arm architecture 64", or arm64, otherwise known as armv8. See here. This is 64 bits OS.
You need to download armv7 (aka arm7). That's the 32 bit OS we are talking about.
Are you use you went to the Raspi OS download site, and download the 32 bit OS? One with the compatibility that says "All RaspberryPi models"?
The problem is this. If I re-built everything to 64 bits, there will be some specialists that wants 32 bit OS so that they can run it on a simpler Pi (Simpler PI always sound better but you can hardly buy 'em now). Think of this as the TDA1541A single crown. Rare but good.
Right now I simply do not have the capacity to build multiple platforms at this stage (even though this is largely automated now). So unfortunately compromises have to be made. At time of writing this message I'm still working on my day job.. It's roughly Sunday morning 9am (I've been working on my day job since around 8am). A few hours later I have to try and go out and run some errands (<- Kind of funny story but will leave that to another day).
But yeah, having said that, I am taking on board Snoopy8's suggestion and will try and streamline the installation process to make things easier. I do understand many people who are trying to use Snakeoil are not as technically inclined as me and really I should put more effort into making this simpler. I honestly though it's a positive step forward with 1.2.x as 1.1.x really restricted the type of hardware you can used. But that also come with some additional issues too.
Over the past 1 (or 2?) years I've been slowly getting the infrastructure up and running to support this. Right now we have 9 TB (5 TB + 4 TB really) of usable space. And relatively good CPUs (well, for the money I'm paying for)... Almost all the pieces are in place. Things will get better in time. But really we are living in a world where people want everything instantly, and it's not something I can do right now to be honest.
One other thing is also both versions are really well curated before. In the sense that I actually sat down for weeks (and sometimes months) listening in my setup and am confident it sounds great. Right now I just don't think I can do this for a 64 bit Pi OS release.. This process is more art than science, and is more a process of trial & error which can be time consuming. This is something I havn't done in about a year now, which is why there really isn't a new MPD update since.
Now I wonder, why did I have so much spare time before during the 0.x, 1.0.x and 1.1.x days?
I appreciate the weight of maintaining a multiplicity of code, AK, really I do.
I'm not even asking for you to maintain more than you are at the moment, but a simpler installation would be a wonderful thing. I've done it dozens of times now on various Pis, have extensive notes which one day I will turn into a blog post (one day) and still, it fails in new ways
I have managed to get a working install by downloading an earlier version of Raspberry Pi OS outside the Raspberry Pi installer's options, installing SO and then using the SO Update button to bring the whole set-up up to date (I imagine that's what it does, anyway), which is what I'd recommend to people having similar problems using the latest versions of Raspberry Pi OS.
![[Image: confused.gif]](https://www.snakeoil-os.net/forums/images/onion/confused.gif)
Just to try to wrap this up, I tried to set up SO again using the latest 32-bit Raspberry Pi OS:
![[Image: Clean-Shot-2023-08-09-at-12-25-23-2x.png]](https://i.ibb.co/cL9b9S4/Clean-Shot-2023-08-09-at-12-25-23-2x.png)
Skipping a couple of steps, when I run the SO installer, I get the same error I reported a few posts back:
![[Image: Clean-Shot-2023-08-09-at-12-42-36-2x.png]](https://i.ibb.co/PYRMyVg/Clean-Shot-2023-08-09-at-12-42-36-2x.png)
Has anyone else gone through these steps and got a different outcome?
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. It's on my list of things to try when I have the time.