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Introduction and Setup Recap 00:00:00
Testing Access Point 00:00:14
Inner Ubuntu VM Boot 00:00:28
Virtual Machine Inception 00:01:12
Network Connectivity Test 00:01:49
Ping and Routing Success 00:02:12
IPv4 and Domain Testing 00:02:38
Font Size and Terminal Issues 00:03:02
Installing Terminator 00:03:24
Adding Static Route 00:04:47
Persistent Route Configuration 00:08:48
Network Settings Adjustment 00:11:02
Router Static Route Discussion 00:13:32
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All right, we’re back. So, uh, my goodness, this video is enormous. We have just finished up setting

up the, uh, the forwarding and the wireless access point and DNS mask and all that stuff.

Now we need to find out if the access point actually works. So the pie is sitting on my

desk. It’s got the dongle plugged in and, um, I want to log into a machine that can connect,

to do i have a nested virtual machine here that i made just for this video i’m calling it inner ubuntu

so you should release your inner ubuntu

i guess hopefully this even boots i only used it one time um let me get rid of like the

the toolbar is it going to work my cpu is now burning out of control

okay this is going to be super slow i’m just telling you right now

this computer’s already pretty crappy and i have a hypervisor that i’m recording on

and then inside that sorry i have a virtual machine that i’m recording on and then inside

that virtual machine there’s another virtual machine that we’re launching it’s like

it’s the virtual machine inception so let me see if i can log in here

Let me see if I can log in here.

Okay.

Seems to have booted.

Let me look at the details real fast.

Oh my God.

I don’t even know where I am anymore.

There’s like three toolbars that I’m looking at.

Three start menus.

So network manager, now I’m back from another cut.

For some reason I didn’t type the SSID incorrectly.

Well, la de fricking da.

So I’m just going to, I guess I typed it in wrong.

Copy pasting it seems to work this time.

Anyway, successfully activated.

So if we do, so remember this inner VM, it doesn’t even have a network card.

It only has the Wi-Fi dongle.

I can do ping 8.8.8.8 to see if we’re online.

We are actually online.

The access point works.

It’s routing.

it’s routing um this should be able to ping my main router 1.1 yep and then 1.101 nice so basically

at this point let me try like a domain name here google.com yeah okay google.com works let’s try

ipv4 works ipv6 unreachable well we’re not on ipv6 i guess i forgot yeah we didn’t add ipv6 yet so

for the regular you know the old school IPV works so at this point the clients

connected to the PI access point can access the rest of the network and they

can access the internet the next thing that we should probably think about

doing is increasing the font size of the dang terminal but besides that I want to

have the rest of the network be able to access clients behind the access point

because you know for me I want to be able to set up servers that are a little

to set up servers that are a little bit further away and you know boost their signal with an

access point what’s going on here i hate this terminal you know what i don’t care i’m going

to do it i’m going to install terminator because i know how to set up the fun size on that one

anyway so the next thing pseudo app update update is what we have to do first

the next thing i’m going to do is set up a route so that we can connect from land clients to clients

So if you look here at the recording that we’re doing, at the main VM that we were in this entire time, we can’t actually ping stuff that’s on the.5.1 subnet.

In fact, we don’t actually even know what the address is.

So if you notice, I can ping 192.168.1.123, and that works because the pi.123 is on the same subnet as the rest of the network.

subnet as the rest of the network. I can also ping 192.168.1.147

because that is also part of the same subnet as the rest of the network.

I can’t ping 192.168.5.1 because

I guess I can, but for sure we’re not going to be able to ping the client that’s inside of the

so I can just get out of this freaking tournament.

And so you can,

because I know this is kind of hard to read, right?

I don’t like that I’m showing you

like a super small front screen.

If you can’t read,

maybe I should just tell you what we did real fast.

I mean, you saw the commands to connect before

on the outer VM,

but I’ll just remind you,

you sudo network manager CLI we wouldn’t do connection add we would actually say device

Wi-Fi connect and then we would name the SSID you know the SSID’s name and then we would say

the password and we would do like you know some kind of password here and then we don’t have to

specify the interface name on the nested VM because there was only one network device at all

So now I can get out of this awful terminal emulator and just go into Terminator.

Pin to the dash.

Unpin to the dash.

And then I can send a bigger font size.

References.

Profiles.

I’ll just make like a really big font size for the rest of this video.

Oh.

where’s a boon 2 mono

reminder later open to sans mono regular that’s an okay terminal font not the best but okay so

now you can see it’s like a little bit better so what are we doing uh we just proved that this

inner vm can see the internet and it can see the lan but this uh machine can’t really see

can’t really see items on the inside. Let me show you what I’m worried about right now.

If we say IP address and show one of our wireless LANs, oh it’s got this huge name, it’s not WLAN0

like on Raspberry. So this is the wireless adapter that we plugged into the inner VM.

It’s got this IP address that has been given to it automatically from DNS mask.

so that uh or sorry a dhcp server so it’s a something.74 that means now we know what address

it is using so we’ll know what address should probably fail let me just double check this real

fast 5.74 not 1.74 yeah so it’s on the other subnet so we’ll ping 5.74 why is it working

i i pushed a bunch of routes the other day

day. I guess they’re just still in there. Okay. This was the whole surprise. Let me just get rid

of this. Sorry. Uh, sudo IP route delete and then just delete that whole entire thing.

I put a route into my actual router. I thought it wasn’t working though. Maybe it’s actually

Anyway, we’ll talk about that.

So now if we just kind of look at IP routes, now these are like normal routes.

This 123 that’s like for the VM stuff, so it’s fine.

Anyway, if you go back to the ping area, if I hit enter a bunch of times to diagnose the

network, notice how the pings are still showing up for the normal subnet 1.something, but

they’re now no longer showing up for 5.something.

So that’s what was going on before.

I already had the good routes in there.

So now the question is, I mean, if you don’t want to be able to have your normal land machines reach clients behind the access point, then you can just be done with this whole video.

But if you want to be able to reach them, maybe they’re going to be servers.

Maybe you just want to like SSH into them or like access something, you know, access them in some way.

Then you need to be able to reach your machines, right?

So how can we do that?

Well, the first thing that you can do is add a static route.

route so you know what is a route this is not a video about routes it’s basically just a way to

say how do you get to that subnet you get there by making your next hop to this particular ip address

so if i go sudo uh ip route add this is linux you can do the same thing uh basically in like your

router and windows and stuff like that leave a comment if you would like me to make a video for

you know any other topic explaining further if i get enough votes i’ll probably just do it

votes i’ll probably just do it so we’re saying we’re going to add a route that will go to this

new subnet and the way that we get to this new subnet is via this ip address which is on the

current subnet notice how this is dot 1.47 147 was the uh the wireless adapter of the pi

the primary wireless adapter the the internal radio so it’s basically saying if you want to get

to subnet 5.something then you got to first bounce onto the wireless radio of the pi and we know how

of the pi and we know how to get to that because that’s on our normal subnet you don’t have to do a

proto static metric and all that stuff that’ll be filled in later but uh you can specify a device

to hop onto so for this particular machine it’s just basically got ethernet so we can specify

you need to hop out on the ethernet adapter versus like some other adapters that you might have but

I just say to get to that other subnet we’ll just hop on to the pie so now that I added that

notice how right away the other pings start coming back so that’s all we really need to do is just

add that route how do you make that permanent though because this is not going to last after

we reboot this virtual machine so let me delete the route real fast whoa what happened no such

let me just double check here

maybe I can like oh because that extra stuff at the end is not in the route

that I just added so I’m deleting the route notice how these pings suddenly

stop how can I make this persistent well you can go into the settings of your

connection and just specify some routes in there so notice how I’m in a program

called XFCE I’m basically going into the network settings and I’m saying edit

connections if you’re on a different version of Linux or a different network

manager or like Windows or whatever you can just go into the network settings

the wireless settings the Ethernet settings and edit the settings and if

you poke around long enough and look at all the different tabs and things that

are offered you’ll eventually find a place that lets you specify routes notice

on automatic but it’s got a button called routes so if i click on the routes button oh that’s why

it was in there i left it in the actual dialogue so um yeah this is all you need to do you click

the add button and it says what address do you want to uh be able to get to and uh you just type

an address yeah i could have typed dot five dot zero but i chose to type dot five dot one just to

remind myself uh and then the net mask uh usually we’ve been seeing a slash 24 block but that’s the

block but that’s the same thing as this 255.255.255.0 it’s kind of the same meaning they’re just

in different formats i think the format on top is called cidr and i can’t even remember what the one

on the bottom is called i think it’s like just a regular subnet mask or something um so you say

in order to get to that machine the gateway um with this uh mask meaning let’s just get to any

any machine on that particular subnet,

then this is your next hop.

The gateway is the PI’s Wi-Fi adapter

that we assigned earlier.

So when I hit okay,

I should be able to just like disconnect and reconnect

and it should just work.

So again, it’s already working right now,

but the reason it’s always working

is because I had that in there.

So let me just disconnect one more time.

Notice how all the PI’s, sorry, all the pings stop.

stop. What’s going on here? Terminal is frozen. All right. That’s weird. Why isn’t it letting

me get enter? I don’t like it. So then if we just go back to the wired connection, suddenly

everything works all over again. That terminal is just frozen, dude. Okay. Let me just check

my notes real fast. Is there anything else that I needed to talk to you about? Yeah.

Well, I guess one thing I should mention, this is not a video about

administering your actual router, like your primary router. It’s kind of a pain in the butt

to add a static route to every machine that you want to be able to access a client, you know,

on your access point on your new Pi repeater. For me, that’s only like three or four machines. So I

just entered it, it’s fine. But if you want every single machine on your LAN to

on your LAN to always know how to get to clients

behind the access point,

you have to have your router push a static route.

There’s a way to do that actually with your DHCP server.

Some routers have like a nifty interface

that is just called static routes

and you can just start entering them in there.

Some of the routers, you know,

they want you to edit the DHCP server and type like a number

and then like do all these weird conversions

to get like a hexadecimal string.

decimal string. I’m not going to go over that in this video. Just know that you can manually add

static routes here, or perhaps in the future, add static routes at the router level, which will help

all clients. But that’s how you connect. That’s how you do it. Just to prove the point here.

What was the IP address of the client? Right. So like this, yeah, that inner VM, I think it’s on

74 at the very end so I’m on regular LAN right now even though this is a VM it’s actually hooked

up to my regular LAN at least like for the moment I should be able to access it via SSH it’ll say

connection refused if I wasn’t able to access that subnet um it would just

time out or say unreachable or something but it should say connection refused if the SSH server

it might actually try to connect.

Let’s see what happens.

Connection refused.

That means I did make it to the inner VM,

but the SSH server is not on.

So let me just prove this to you a little bit more.

Pseudo apt install, open SSH server.

So when this finishes,

we should be able to connect over SSH

basically finished our wireless repeater only got like three minutes left until the camera cuts me

off again hope you uh learn some stuff let me just try to connect real fast yep see how it’s asking

me now do you recognize this machine so it actually worked so after all of these hours of

watching me just ramble on nonsensically i hope you’ve learned a little bit of stuff and i’ve

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Introduction to Wi-Fi Repeater 00:00:00
Disclaimer and Cost Comparison 00:00:17
Raspberry Pi Hardware 00:00:33
Prerequisites for Setup 00:01:00
Need for Extra Wi-Fi Adapter 00:01:17
Network Diagram Explanation 00:01:45
Current Network Issues 00:01:56
Solution with Pi Repeater 00:02:36
Creating a Second Subnet 00:02:48
IP Address Planning 00:03:16
Choosing Subnet for Repeater 00:07:00
Assigning IP Addresses 00:08:28
Downloading Raspberry Pi OS 00:10:00
Preparing SD Card 00:13:30
Writing Image to SD Card 00:16:27
Conclusion and Call to Action 00:19:08

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Hey there, let’s talk about using your Raspberry Pi as a Wi-Fi repeater, Wi-Fi extender, just

to help make the Wi-Fi signals a lot better in your home.

So for starters, I just want to make a disclaimer. It’s actually a lot cheaper and easier to just go

to the store and buy a Wi-Fi repeater. But if you’re like me, and you like to do everything

and fun why bother driving down to the store when you can stay inside all day long and do it yourself

so uh uh i’m using an old raspberry pi that i found in a drawer this is like a raspberry pi

4 it’s not really that old um after i do this video i’m going to do the same thing with the

raspberry pi 3 which i think should probably also work um and i was about to throw this pi 4 away

and then i realized i could turn it into a repeater so it actually did save me money in the

let me just talk about your your prerequisites real fast what you

actually need you obviously need a Pi you know in like the power and all that

stuff you need an SD card so that you can write an operating system to the Pi

hopefully if you’re watching this video you already know that but the the major

thing that you actually need that you probably don’t have yet is you need an

extra radio you need an extra Wi-Fi adapter for your Pi because the Pi by

radio antenna, you know, Wi-Fi adapter, Wi-Fi card. But you need two because one is going to

connect to your existing router, your existing Wi-Fi access point. And then the second one is

going to become its own access point so other clients can connect to it. Let me kind of show

you a plan of what I’m talking about here. I made a crappy diagram. I hope you like it. I’m not very

good at these things. But if you kind of look on the screen right now, you can see that this is

This is the situation before you add some sort of a Wi-Fi repeater or the Pi repeater.

So this was what was happening to me.

Spoiler, I already did this.

So I kind of remember how to get this working pretty quick.

So I have like a wireless router here and it’s also the regular router

and it’s connected to the modem and stuff.

And the devices that are close to the router get lots of fast, good connection.

But the devices that are kind of far away, like way over here in the back,

here in the back maybe like a server a printer another laptop a phone whatever they lose

connection they they have slow speeds they’re spotty they’re frustrating right i think probably

most of you deal with this um so the the wireless repeater or the pi that we’re going to do right

now is going to solve the problem at least hopefully or mostly i don’t know so i’m going

to show you a diagram of what it’ll be like when we’re finished we’re actually going to create a

a second network. Notice how on the first slide, oh, I already lost it. Let me do it.

Notice how on the first slide, we just had one network here. For my personal network,

this is just 192.168.1.something. And then that slash 24 means the last number is able to change.

We usually call this a subnet. Honestly, this is not smart to have a standard subnet in your

home network, but I’m kind of lazy. Maybe I should change that soon. You should know in advance,

in advance this is part of your preparation and research you should know what is the ip address

of your router your existing router you should know the existing subnet that you’re running on

if you don’t this is going to be extremely hard for you to do most people though if you just get

a router and install it it’s either going to be a one right here or a zero right here very rarely

will i see people with like a 10 0.0 dot something and if they do somebody else in their family or

or business set it up for them already so we start off with only one subnet one network all

only one subnet one network all the devices can talk to each other without

all the LAN devices can talk to each other without routing when we’re done

we’ll end up having two networks so just notice real fast again this is the

initial network you know this is the thing that we had before 192.168.1.

something and then these close devices they’re still going to connect to the

router notice how you know this green line right here it’s not or sorry this

well no it doesn’t I’m totally lying oh no no I am not lying I lied about lying

basically the router is connected still to the original devices that were fast

on the router so there’s no reason to move devices that didn’t have a problem

but notice here instead of having one long blue line going all the way to the

devices in the back this this this blue like connection squiggly you know image

the internal radio of the Raspberry Pi.

And then the Raspberry Pi will have a second antenna

that’s going to be, you know, one of these things.

I’ll show you how to install this and all that stuff in another video.

I’ll talk about it.

That second radio is going to connect and be an access point

to all the other devices that are far away.

And if we’re lucky, what will happen is the signal won’t get too bad

by the time it hits the Pi.

It’ll probably be like, you know, hopefully okay.

okay, kind of fast, not too spotty, at least, you know, not as spotty and bad as it was going all

the way to the devices in the back. And then because this is digital, the Pi is going to

actually repeat the signal out on the second antenna from, from scratch. Like it’s going to

give a fresh signal. It’s going to be the same data, but it’ll be, you know, renewed, repowered.

So if you think about it, that’s kind of like having the wireless router a lot closer to the

lucky then the devices in the back will have a much easier time connecting so and and getting

speed and being reliable and all that stuff the only thing that we really need to deal with though

is in order to do this we have to create a second subnet so at the very end of this video we’ll

talk about routing and we’ll just we’ll just do a couple of commands to make sure that um

the devices in the regular part of your lan network can actually reach and connect to and

end. We’ll add a static route to make sure that these two subnets can talk because by default,

they wouldn’t be able to talk to each other. If you don’t really need them to talk, like let’s say,

I don’t know, maybe these devices in the back, maybe they’re just like your phone or

a computer that you only surf on or something like that. Then you don’t really need a route

if you’re not going to connect to one of those devices in the back as a server or something.

So, but you know, that’s what I like to do. So we’re going to do that also.

the first step, let’s see. I think the first step, oh, before we get the pie started,

we need to talk about your plan. So what is your plan? We’re going to, what happened there?

I lost, there we go. Okay. We’re going to plan what IP addresses the pie will have when we’re

totally done. You have to do this in advance, right? So we already talked about, you have to

might not be the same as mine and then we have to identify or not identify we have to choose what

the repeater subnet is going to be you don’t have more than one subnet if you don’t even know what

I’m talking about you could probably just choose any number you want for me I chose 192.168.5.0

keep in mind you probably want to have the first two numbers the same unless you’re in some sort

of a special setup you know there are numbers that you can use that are not that but this is

change that third number from a one to a five indicating there’s like a now now a dot five

something subnet uh remember that this slash 24 means that only the last number can change

for communication to work without routing so that means i don’t really want to interfere with my

existing subnet if i did you would probably mysteriously continually lose connection

while you’re trying to set this up and then later when it’s working so just

take it from me it’s more trouble than it’s worth so just come up with a new subnet

just come up with a new subnet if you’re thinking about doing bridge networking you can’t really do

that with a wireless radio that is connected in client mode I already tried that it didn’t work

so I mean for me I just had to make another subnet so write down whatever you decide as your

as your other subnet walk around and make sure that it doesn’t exist look in your router this

is the IP for my router at least right now and you should determine what your router IP is and then

And then you have to come up with three IP addresses for the new Raspberry Pi setup.

So the first IP address is going to be, what are we going to assign to the Ethernet port?

I said originally, this is just going to be, you know, a Wi-Fi repeater.

So we’re not really going to use Ethernet, except at the beginning, when we’re setting everything up,

it’s going to be much more convenient to be able to connect to the Pi.

Me, when I was practicing this yesterday, I kept screwing up the wireless settings.

And if I had not set up the Ethernet port in advance, I would have been locked out of the Pi.

I would have been locked out of the Pi. I would have had to like restart it and then hope for the best or maybe rewrite the whole card.

So, you know, once you get the Ethernet port working and you know, you can connect to it,

it makes things a little bit easier if you should screw up the wireless.

So then come up with an IP address for the built-in radio, the one that’s going to connect as a client to your existing network.

For me, I chose 147 and then obviously for the Ethernet 123.

Then you have to come up with an IP address for the second radio on your Pi.

you know, the antenna that’s going to become an access point, it should be on the new subnet.

So whatever you choose up here, you know, 5.0 slash 24, that means 5.something is valid.

I just chose 5.1 because it’s kind of a common thing that the gateway that is sort of like

handling traffic for other machines, which is what the antenna is going to do, is it ends in a 1.

So I’m just going to choose, you know, 5.1 because that’s kind of a standard gateway thing.

address is ready, I’m going to start installing the Pi. So the first thing that you want to do

to get ready to install the Pi, 12 minutes, that’s not too bad. I tend to talk a lot.

I got to chill, you know, I got to chill.

Is you probably want to go to the Raspberry Pi website. So I’m going to go raspberrypi.com.

What is this new stuff? I got to set up Firefox. Raspberry Pi, the foundation has got like an

and a com I think org is like more for community stuff so go to raspberrypi.com

click on software and let’s see so you could use the imager if you want to I’m

not going to show you how in this video I like to do everything manually what

we’re gonna do is download an image of the Raspberry Pi operating system and

then burn that to the SD card for the Raspberry Pi so again you know if you

if you don’t want to do it this way you can do it whatever way you know how you

the OS basically. If you’re interested leave a comment I am thinking about

making future videos where I explain how to do this from Windows but I’m in

Linux right now so I’m just gonna use Linux to do it. I’m on the Raspberry Pi

4 which supports the 64-bit operating system you should use that if your Pi

supports it. On my Pi 3 I’m only 70% sure that it supports the 64-bit

operating system I haven’t like fully explored it yet although it did run I

run. I don’t know if anything was broken, but I’m just going to click on the 64-bit operating

system. So you click that. Then you have, you know, choices like not flavors, but like levels

of stuff that comes pre-installed. So the 64-bit, double check that. Raspberry Pi OS, double check

that. Yeah. With a desktop, we don’t need a desktop for our repeater. Desktop with recommended

software, we don’t need that. We need the light version. That’s the leanest, meanest version.

that is the easiest and fastest to download install so click that download

button and what will happen is you’ll end up with an XZ let me copy that link

real fast you’ll end up with an XZ extension when you download it notice

how it says you know arm 64 light image XZ that just means the image is zipped

up so that’s that it’s faster to download if you had something that was

had something that was like that ended in a gzip extension then on the command line you would say

g unzip and then you would do you know the file name dot gzip or whatever it was since we’re using

uh xz i think it’s uh un xz as far as i recall let me open up a terminal real fast and i’m going to

go into my downloads and then another disclaimer i’m not really going to show you the basics of

about that in other videos um definitely uh command line basics i think maybe soon i’m going

to post um an ssh tutorial so if you’re like on windows and you want to be able to connect or do

command line stuff just basically see my other videos by the time you find this one uh you’ll

probably there’ll probably be a lot others that are up so i’m going to go into downloads here

and go into my iso folder i just like to keep things organized so

Yeah, that’s what I originally did.

So that’s the command to unzip an XZ zipped image file.

So now I just have regular dot image.

I don’t need to unzip it is what I’m saying.

So I would have done, if you don’t have XZ,

you can do apt search XZ on your computer.

It’s in here somewhere.

Yeah, I think it’s a XZ utils that’ll allow you to unzip.

So anyway, the next thing that I really need to do now

that I have the image is I need to burn it to an SD card.

it to an SD card and then I need to modify it for first boot which I think I will do in in another

video that I’ll link here or or mention here so again what am I doing I have like an SD card

it’s like a really you know small micro SD card for the Raspberry Pi and then I have a little

SD card reader and writer so I’m just gonna this is the first time I’ve used this one I have a

really cheap one behind me that sucks and I’m hoping this will be faster so I’m just gonna

stick it in and then so now the card is on USB so then I’m just gonna go plug

this in and oh hang on before you plug it in I almost forgot you don’t have to

do this but it’s kind of a good idea it makes it more convenient I’m gonna use a

program called parted to see what like disks and partitions and drives and

things I have available in the system so sudo parted if you don’t have that

it’s sudo apt install parted. I’m gonna say print devices and notice how it just

shows only one disk. This is a virtual disk because I’m actually in a VM right

now. So now that I know what disks are currently in the machine it’ll be easier

to see what disk just got added. So I’m gonna like push this in here. I saw a

spark! No that was a light. I’m gonna wait a second and then I’m just gonna very

machine to give that usb device to the machine that you’re looking at right now so you don’t

have to worry about doing this um genesis logic reader and writer the cheapest thing i could

possibly find i don’t know it seems okay though it was a it was a choice on the shopping website

that i went to okay so i mean this this proves that it worked i get annoying pop-ups uh because

basically i have like another operating system already on that card so if you get these pop-ups

you had something on the card before you probably want to unmount the card before you continue so

we know now that the card is uh showing up as dev sdb got to remember that and uh before i continue

i’m gonna unmount so you want to go mount this is linux again by the way and i’m gonna oops well

mount and pattern match it by sdb and those are the two mounts that i have so i’m gonna just

rid of that because if you try to modify a card that is currently mounted or a

partition or a drive or something that’s currently mounted you’ll probably end up

corrupting a bunch of data so you don’t want to do that mount pattern matching

against SDV so now it’s unmounted I don’t know if this is 100% safe at this

point but this is what I do so hopefully it’s okay just print the devices again

to make sure it didn’t disappear if it did disappear you probably have to like

unplug it and replug it or maybe reboot the computer because you use the wrong

because you use the wrong command or you click the eject button or something.

So now I’m going to write that image directly to the cart.

So I’m going to say sudo dd.

So this is the program that I use for writing images to disks and cards

and copying files and stuff like that.

It’s really cool and fast and versatile,

but be very careful because you could actually destroy your entire computer with this command.

So what am I talking about?

talking about so you have to specify the in file and that’s pretty easy uh if you get it wrong it

doesn’t really matter so i’m specifying the in file as that image that i just downloaded

then i’m going to specify the out file and this is where it gets super dangerous

you have to double and triple check that you’re typing the correct device and you’re typing the

device correctly so i’m literally going to look at it like five times i go out file dev sdb

devsdb has the right size that’s a 64 gigabyte sd card there’s nothing else except for my okay

you got to be paranoid because i i’ve done this one time in my life i used the wrong out file

and i basically watched my computer destroy itself in front of my face

and a little tear went down my cheek slowly anyway so then the other thing that i usually

like to put on here is conv fsync i don’t know if this is required for sd cards but it’s usually a

It’ll basically force syncing of the file.

Because like, for example, if you have a USB thumb drive

and you use DD to write data to the file,

the thumb drive sometimes lies to you

and tells you that data is written

even though it hasn’t been written

because the thumb drive is trying to appear

faster than it really is.

So if you just kind of notice that the command is finished

and you pull out the thumb drive,

you might have corrupted data

because it didn’t actually finish writing.

So I use conv fsync to try to avoid that.

And then I’m going to do status equals progress.

progress. So I can just kind of see what’s going on. Okay, so let’s see, double check FSDB and then

it’s all plugged in. Everything’s good. Okay, wish me luck. Then again, this is why I’m in a virtual

machine. If this gets destroyed, I don’t really care as much. Okay, it’s going incredibly slowly.

Just as slow as my old slow card reader. That sucks. Maybe the problem is my hypervisor then,

from this host machine to my virtual machine.

Okay, anyway, so I’m going to cut the video for a second here.

And hopefully you’ve gotten this far with me

and you’re ready to go to the next step.

Just maybe pause the video while yours is riding to the Pi.

And I’ll turn off my video now.

I’ll come back as soon as it’s finished.

And then we’ll continue.

We’ll do first boot on the Raspberry Pi.

Be right back.

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