Setup

Updated: April 21, 2020

Installation of headless OS onto a Raspberry Pi.

Table of Contents

MANJARO MINIMAL

  1. Download Pi4-Manjaro Minimal
  2. Install and use BalenaEtcher on microSD card.
  3. Place flashed card into pi. Connect ethernet cable and power the pi up.
  4. Connect to the pi using ssh.
ssh root@localip
  1. Go through setup as usual. Pi will restart itself, ending your ssh session. Reconnect in a few minutes.
  2. Setup ssh
ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "username@email.com"
eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"
ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_ed25519
  1. Copy any ssh keys
cat ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub | ssh user@remotehost 'cat >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys'
  1. Mirrors may be broken (updating will return 404s) Fix with: 
wget https://ftp-osl.osuosl.org/pub/manjaro-arm/repo/stable/core/aarch64/pacman-mirrorlist-YYYYMMDD-1-any.pkg.tar.xz

If wget is broke use wget or download the package on another machine to scp it over to your pi.

scp pacman-mirrorlist-YYYYMMDD-1-any.pkg.tar.xz user@localip:~

Then on the pi run in order:

sudo pacman -U pacman-mirrorlist-*		# updates the mirrorlist with the one we just scp'd to the pi
sudo pacman-mirrors -g					# updates mirrors by geo location
sudo pacman -Syyu						# since we changed our mirrors we have to use extra y to update them
sudo pacman -S wget git	zsh	vim			# should always have this - Manjaro does not be default (extra)

add oh-my-zsh to the zsh we just installed

sh -c "$(wget https://raw.github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh -O -)"
sudo pacman -S zsh-syntax-highlighting
git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions

On any linux machine if you want easy ssh set up a ~/.ssh/config file.

Host *
  IdentitiesOnly yes
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_ed25519

Host pi4
  HostName 192.168.0.12
  Port 4321
  User drax

Change ssh port & whitelist users in ~/etc/ssh/sshd_config file.

Port 4321
AllowUsers drax

You will need to sudo systemctl restart sshd for changes to take effect.
The changes to these two files will make it so that the user drax could use ssh pi4 to connect via custom port instead of 22.

RASPIAN

DOWNLOAD & Install

  1. Go to Pi to get download.
  2. BalenaEtcher
  3. Place into pi & boot up. You can find out it’s ip with:
ping raspberrypi

ssh to the pi3.

sudo raspi-config

set up localization (en-utf-8), time, file exapander, chg passwd

sudo nano /etc/default/locale

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8

Change the hostname from pi to somthing else

sudo nano /etc/hostname
sudo nano /etc/hosts
sudo shutdown -r now

INSTALL

sudo apt install dirmngr
sudo apt install gnupg2
sudo apt install dnsutils

ADD KEYS (if/whatever error keys show up)

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 8B48AD6246925553
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 7638D0442B90D010
sudo apt update
sudo apt install certbot -t stretch-backports -y --allow    # instead of --force-yes