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Fri, Feb 02, 2017
RASPBERRY PI
Backup
$ sudo dd bs=4M if=/dev/sde of=raspbian.img # backup
$ sudo dd bs=4M if=raspbian.img of=/dev/sde # restore
or
$ sudo dd bs=4M if=/dev/sde | gzip > rasbian.img.gz # backup
$ gunzip --stdout rasbian.img.gz | sudo dd bs=4M of=/dev/sde # restore
Reference: Backups
Media
ISO available via Arch download page.
Installation
$ fdisk /dev/sde
$ o # Clear out any partitions on the drive
$ p # List partitions
$ n # New partition
$ p # Primary
$ 1 # First partition on drive
$ Enter # Accept default first sector
$ +100M # 100MB for boot partition
$ t # Partition type
$ c # Set partition type to W95 FAT32 (LBA)
$ n # New partition
$ p # Primary
$ 2 # Second partition on drive
$ Enter # Accept default first sector
$ Enter # Accept default last sector
$ mkfs.vfat /dev/sde1 # Create and mount the FAT filesystem
$ mkdir boot
$ mount /dev/sde1 boot
$ mkfs.ext4 /dev/sde2 # Create and mount the ext4 filesystem
$ mkdir root
$ mount /dev/sde2 root
$ wget http://os.archlinuxarm.org/os/ArchLinuxARM-rpi-2-latest.tar.gz
$ bsdtar -xpf ArchLinuxARM-rpi-2-latest.tar.gz -C root
$ sync
$ mv root/boot/* boot # Move boot files to the first partition
$ umount boot root # Unmount the two partitions
Default
user: alarm
password: alarm
user: root
password: root
Reference: ARMv7 Installation
Wireless
$ pacman -S dialog wpa_supplicant
$ wifi-menu
$ ls /etc/netctl/ # Find the wifi profile
$ netctl enable profile-name # Substitute profile-name as obtained above
Create New User
$ useradd -m -G wheel -s /bin/bash daniel
$ passwd daniel
$ usermod -a -G audio,network,power,scanner,storage,systemd-journal,video daniel
The above creates a new user with home directory, change password and add user to additional groups.
Sudo
$ pacman -S sudo
Run visudo, edit it to restrict sudo to specific group or user.
Update
$ sudo pacman -Syu
$ sudo pacman -Syy # If above failed
Xfce
$ sudo pacman -S xfce4
$ sudo pacman -S xorg-server xorg-server-utils xorg-xinit
$ sudo pacman -S xf86-video-fbdev
$ startxfce4 # NOTE: To manually start Xfce
Updated
xorg-server-utils has been replaced by xorg-apps
Additional Install
$ sudo pacman -S openssh
$ sudo pacman -S vim
$ sudo pacman -S tigervnc
Apply dotfiles.
VNC Setup
$ vncserver # Create configs
$ vncserver -kill :1 # NOTE: To shutdown vncserver
~/.vnc/xstartup
#!/bin/sh
exec /bin/sh /etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc
/etc/systemd/system/vncserver@:1.service
[Unit]
Description=Remote desktop service (VNC)
After=syslog.target network.target
[Service]
Type=simple
User=daniel
PAMName=login
PIDFile=/home/daniel/.vnc/%H:%i.pid
ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/vncserver -kill %i > /dev/null 2>&1 || :'
ExecStart=/usr/bin/vncserver -geometry 1280x720 -alwaysshared -fg %i
ExecStop=/usr/bin/vncserver -kill %i
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Enable vncserver@:1.service
$ sudo systemctl enable vncserver@:1.service
VNC Client
Use TightVNC
Port: 5901
Mount USB Drive
$ sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb -o uid=1000,gid=1000,utf8,dmask=027,fmask=137
sshfs
$ brew cask install osxfuse
$ brew install sshfs