Almost killed my PI..

[Hamuki]

I got over the problem before with my Rasp Pi B+..

I just started to compile BTC on their and then an hour after I started the screen went grey and non-respondsive.

I want to ask if I can run the Raspian Wheezy Distro on my PC instead using either VMware or HyperV to do it virtually and then finish the image there.
Then "burn" it into the SD card and throw it back into the PI.

Can I do that?

I have never used Linux before, so this is a new but facinating world for me.

~Hamuki

[unamis76]

Odd that your PI goes unresponsive... Compiling can take some time on such a small cpu, don't forget. You might as well reformat and try again. Also, how big is your swap?

If you want to go the VM way, you can try this: http://xecdesign.com/qemu-emulating-raspberry-pi-the-easy-way/

Haven't tried yet, so not sure if it works, but it's worth a shot!

You can also try and OC the Pi a bit

[notlist3d]

We read a lot in here with problems running a full btc client on the PI.

I wonder if we would read less problems if people used the raspberry pi 2.  Seems like it has a decent amount more power.   

[Enzyme]

I'm not very knowledgeable about the Pi although I think you may need to optimise some settings / compromise. Bitcoin is known to ruin the SD card.

[Reynaldo]

The problem comes from your sdcard.
Sd cards are not meant to be doing hard work. You should compile moving swap partition and /tmp partition out of the sdcard. More information here:
http://mywayonlinux.blogspot.com/2014_05_01_archive.html

On guides how to install OS in raspberry pi

use elinux.org and my favorite.. install arch linux arm on your raspberry pi http://elinux.org/ArchLinux_Install_Guide

[unamis76]

I'm not very knowledgeable about the Pi although I think you may need to optimise some settings / compromise. Bitcoin is known to ruin the SD card.

Never really had any issues on mine and I've compiled several coins there... What makes Bitcoin different while compiling?

The problem comes from your sdcard.
Sd cards are not meant to be doing hard work. You should compile moving swap partition and /tmp partition out of the sdcard. More information here:
http://mywayonlinux.blogspot.com/2014_05_01_archive.html

On guides how to install OS in raspberry pi

use elinux.org and my favorite.. install arch linux arm on your raspberry pi http://elinux.org/ArchLinux_Install_Guide

That's actually a very nice idea Thanks