Using a stock Canakit RPI3 and a 250 external USB hard drive, I started the installation according to the instructions on
http://raspnode.com/diyBitcoin.html#raspconfigI had a few difficulties setting up the RPI, schlepping it across the room to my TV as it is the only HDMI monitor. I didn't want to use the REALVNC after seeing there's a fee of some sort so went with xtightvncserver. But I had set up in a terminal as root and started the server. When I connected using xvncviewer I was logged in to root's desktop. I started the ~/bin parts installation there in the /root because when I open a terminal it opens in /root not /home/pi. I'm hoping that when I finish the installation ssh in and kill the vncserver and restart it as pi then use xvncviewer and connect to pi's desktop and start bitcoin-qt on pi's desktop.
I ran into a "g++: internal compiler error: Killed (program cc1plus)" error and worked from the solution in this post:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=304389.0 but zeroing out the /etc/dphys-swapfile.
I'm now running the 'make -j2' command again. When it's complete, and if it finishes successfully after 2½ hours, I'll try killing the vncserver via ssh and try starting it as pi.
My question is: the external drive I'm going to use for the datadir is formatted as ext4. Can I take that and using SyncToy 2.1, copy the blockchain from a Windows machine to the USB drive and when the Raspnode Bitcoin-QT starts will it have any difficulties with that blockchain? Thanks.
soy