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Hi, thanks for your reply! Yes I should be able to. I have what I believe to be a working/correct version of "bitcoind.service" called "bitcoind.service.1" in the same directory. Basically something's gone badly wrong, as Linux won't even boot up without going from a boot flash drive. This is...

Oh ...sorry, Core might be 7GB, but for my purposes (setting up a Bitcoin node) I needed to download the whole of the Bitcoin blockchain (every transaction ever made on Bitcoin) which is around 700GB - it took over a day. Thanks again

UPDATE: Just coming back here with a quick update. I decided to postpone my installation: essentially the timeline reached the point where it was clear I wouldn't be ready in time. With this in mind, I turned my attention to creating a plan B. I will return to getting my installation up and...

Thanks very much for this CaffeineAddict! - I'm going to give this a go to see if I can rescue the situation.

UPDATE: After trying a number of other things, I decided it was time to shut the system down and restart. This was an error. I should have archived-off Bitcoin Core (700GB) before shutting down, as Linux will now not start up. This has likely killed my schedule/roadmap. There is a way of...

Yes, I've installed it on a 2TD SSD, on standalone hardware. I did what you suggested and when I tried to save the file I got: [ Error writing bitcoind.service: Read-only file system] highlighted in red. Thanks for the suggestion though - I genuinely appreciate your help. It's 7pm in the UK...

Thanks very much CaffeineAddict - I'll give this a go and report back either way. Thanks again!

Hi, sure - thanks very much for the suggestion. I'll try to use code tags. Here goes: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a # device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices # that works even if...

So I tried using nano as suggested by CaffeineAddict above (sudo nano bitcoind.service). Basically, I edited the original file line by line to make the changes to the updated file. This meant I had the opportunity to have a close look at the code. Nothing looked suspicious to me - but I'm a...

Good thought - thanks again. Yes, I originally booted from a ubuntu boot drive - although like you I'm unsure of the implications of this. Think I might need to take a time-out, been at this for ~ten hours now and I've gone round in circles so many times I'm beginning to doubt what I've done...

So, sudo cp bitcoind.service bitcoind.service.backup doesn't work, I get: cp: cannot create regular file 'bitcoind.service.backup': Read-only file system. And when I type: sudo nano bitcoind.service the file is loaded. It states in a red block that it's unwritable. I haven't tried to change it...

Thanks for coming back to me - I'll try that ...it may take a bit of time though as I'm brand new to Linux. Hear what you're saying about copying from YT - it's less than ideal. On the plus side, I'm installing a standalone system so if I have problems they'll be isolated from my main PC.

Also, when I type: sudo cp bitcoind.service.1 bitcoind.service, I get: cp: cannot create regular file 'bitcoind.service': Read-only file system

Hi, thanks for coming back to me - much appreciated. I get a few different error messages typically mentioning a read-only file system, or Operation not permitted etc. When I type in ls -l bitcoind.service I get: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2274 Apr 16 07:40 bitcoind.service Thanks

Hi thanks and thanks for your reply. I was following a YouTube step-by-step until I got stuck. Then I looked in the supporting text below and the YouTuber said that the bitcoind.service file provided didn't work - and provided a link for one that does. Thanks again!

gm ...newbie here struggling with something that should be easy. I'm installing bitcoin core on linux (ubuntu), and have a problem overwriting a write-protected file (bitcoind.service). I've Googled and asked ChatGPT and searched the forum archive/FAQs. The solutions I've tried include the...