On Day 4 I broke my Pi! I tried to install some Google calendar thing and then my Pi wouldn’t get past the ‘startx’ command – it turned out that the install had totally filled the disk space on the flash card, meaning the Pi could not run a windowed environment. I tried to clear it from the command line but gave up and wiped my card and made a new one.
On day 5 I realised that although I had a 4GB SD card, I was only using 2GB of it, as I wrote a 2GB disk image to it. I made a live CD of Gparted which I booted a laptop from, and used that to make my EXT4 Linux partition on my RasPi SD card as big as possible, Works a treat and I now have 2.2GB free disk space – which suggests I only had 0.2 GB free before. No wonder it fell over when I started installing more software!
I’m back up and running now. And itching to try putting XBMC on a RasPi to make a very cheap media centre – I could have one in the back of every TV.