Tony is a Geek

Why revival?  Well... apparently I did "some stuff" with my Atari ST back in 2017 and then again in 2021 ... and due to over-working on work/work stuff and not setting aside enough personal-time, the machines kind of moved further and further under piles of "stuff". ( yes, that is an original Sony AIBO ERS-111 on the shelf that I purchased back in 1999/2000 - that little dog is still more advanced than most of the latest "AI" technology in the market-place today ) Well, I decided to take 2 weeks off work. literally. off work.  It took a few days, okay, about 5, to totally disconnect and wind down and stop / not think about work/work related things.  During this time, I decided to "sort out the 16/32 bit room".  This was my old home/office, basically a large double-bedroom that a child of any age would absolutely love to have; however, I had managed to overfill it with "stuff" and it had become a mini-cave with very little or not desk s...

of course I got one.  It was on pre-order with thepihut.com (actually this one was registered to Mrs.IsAGeek - but shhhh!), I missed my one being delivered as I was "out" and they wanted it signed for..that will arrive on Monday, that one is the 8GB version with the new PSU and fan... What can I say?  Well...I had a minor niggle out-of-the-box that I'll cover here. I went to here:  https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/operating-systems/#raspberry-pi-os-64-bit I downloaded this file:  https://downloads.raspberrypi.com/raspios_arm64/images/raspios_arm64-2023-10-10/2023-10-10-raspios-bookworm-arm64.img.xz I burnt it to an SD-Card: Stuck the SD-Card into the device, booted it up and was shown some looping time out issues and errors. I thought that the SD-Card was at fault? So I did it a few times, even used another SD-Card. Then I actually read the prompt on the screen - It was complaining that a specific RPi-5.dtd file was missing, nope there it was in the main folder,...