wild-central/docs/armbian-setup.md

Setting up Ambian on a pi

These are raw notes. Instructions will need to be made friendly.

Hardware requirements

• 32GB SD card
• SD to USB adapter

Creating OS boot on SD

References

• See Armbian OS getting started
• See Orange Pi Zero 3 setup

Steps

Prepare image:

• Download OS image.
• Install usbimager.
• Insert SD card into USB adapter into ops computer.
• Launch USB Imager and use it to write your downloaded image to the SD card. It might take an hour.
• When written, copy infrastructure_setup/dnsmasq/.not_logged_in_yet to the sd's root/ dir.

Boot:

• Put the SD card into the Pi and boot.
• Set config options.
• From your ops machine, ssh into the pi.
• Run armbian-install
  • Select the option to put the boot loader on the sdcard

Configure:

# Block all suspend, hibernate, and sleep actions.
sudo systemctl mask sleep.target suspend.target hibernate.target hybrid-sleep.target

Update:

wget -qO - https://apt.armbian.com/armbian.key | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/armbian.gpg >/dev/null
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade