That's not what the guide means.

nano is a text file editor, like... the Windows file editor (which I can't even remember the name of).

The line

is supposed to be inserted into the fstab file. Probably at the end of the file, but you should check the implications of that beforehand. It's not a command, it's a config value.

And you need to use fdisk (or suchlike command) to discover the actual UUID for your external disk, and replace "123456" with that.

You got that wrong. What the author of the tutorial actually does, is opening a file (sudo nano etc/fstab) and then replacing "UUID=123456" manually. CTRL + O lets you save the file.

You can try this automatic installer if you find it too difficult to install it on your own.


Yes, you have to use nano which is a text editor as a person above mentioned. Use "sudo nanoetc/fstab" and save your file using CTRL + O.

Appreciate the help. I finally got past that step and am now stuck again with a new problem. Under "Raspberry Pi" > "Login with SSH keys" it instructs us to use private key encryption to login to our Pi and provides the following guide:

https://www.tecmint.com/ssh-passwordless-login-with-putty/

I followed everything without any issues until getting to Step 8, which shows how to login to our Pi with the private key. It gives the following instructions:

"Open Putty and add your server login user followed by your server IP Address or FQDN on Host Name field in the form of user@domain.tld, enter your server SSH Port number if it was changed."

Assuming my servin login user is "admin" and the server IP address is 192.168.1.2, would I be putting admin;192.168.1.2 into the "Host Name" field? I tried just using the IP address and loading the private key but the SSH window opens blank and doesn't allow me to type anything. Once again, any help would be much appreciated! Would really like to get this thing up and running

I tried that and had the same problem. PuTTY window opens blank and then eventually get a message "Network error: Connection timed out"

I chose the user “admin” which is what I’d been using for the rest of the setup. So for host name I put admin@192.168.1.2 and then loaded the private key. Where would I enter the password? I don’t see a field for it

IP definitely hasn't changed since I set a static IP for the Pi. I'm positive I put the public key in ".ssh/authoized_keys" but maybe it didn't save? Is there anyway to go back in and check or am I locked out? Another thing I noticed was the guide stated we should have 3 files at this point; the public key, private key, and the authorized key text file. Right now I have everything but the text file. Is the text file just where we pasted the public key from PuTTYgen or is this something else?

Appreciate the quick response. Unfortunately I'm no longer able to access my Pi by just using the IP address. I get the same error message I mentioned previously, "Network error: Connection timed out"

Hopefully this doesn't mean I have to start from scratch

Update: I just wiped the SD card with SDFormatter and rewrote the "Raspberry Pi Lite" disk image back onto the SD hoping to start from the beginning. When I tried logging into the Pi from PuTTY with my static IP I got a different error message, this time "Network error: Connection refused"... Any ideas?  

Already tried pinging, it's working fine

Edit: Nevermind, forgot to recreate the "ssh" file in the boot drive of my MicroSD. I'm back in and going to give this whole thing another whirl, I'll keep you guys posted.

Well I gave it another shot and ran into the same problem. Keep getting "Network error: Connection timed out" after setting up the public key in the .ssh/authorized_keys nano folder. I'm wondering if I'm somehow entering the public key wrong? Here is the step by step breakdown...

mkdir .ssh
nano .ssh/authorized_keys

Once this opened I added the public key, saved by hitting Ctrl + O, enter, and then exiting with Ctrl + X. Below is an example of the public key I put in, I'm wondering if I was supposed to include the entire string? For example, at the very end it has the nickname I gave the key "LightNode Keys". Should I omit that?

2048 37 2926877905057611927715148755727399686143855056397930910268176155544486039903026 9544216676050916922797437140181990936326704389571868101556788023723768028376095 5286411580936916507661787551554794150308211487587558445878082396130423946260024 8111988870557270960212891785752620587821289007077391612815577729744490956103657 8035117814798023232369059318931194448904566627840072531959805969875272348281735 9168228175348840554340892749717238557819322595421624901736023679109546926141029 5819236374715075005051553089587916223334468614057099430914344001508210336312229 0965589886136372605871099014869596718038391900923041721911870683 LightNode Keys

After I saved and exited, I entered the following commands...

chmod -R 700 .ssh/ (Nothing happened after doing this)
exit

Really not sure what to do at this point. How critical is this step? I'm thinking of just skipping it altogether but of course don't want to leave my node vulnerable.

chmod doesn't give you any output if it succeeds, so don't worry about that. If you did ls -l before chmod, then again after chmod, you'd notice the file permissions change, which is chmod's purpose.



"LightNode Keys" has a space character in it, but you're not using double quotes around the nickname in the example public key string you gave. I'm not saying that's the overall problem, but it's likely a problem. Avoid putting spaces in anything that's going to get parsed by a command line tool, a space is treated like an indication that a new parameter is after the space from the perspective of parsing commands.