Raspbian installation

MCP3008 LDR

Download

Visit https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/ and locate the latest download image.

Fetch the image.

wget https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian_lite_latest

Verify the file with the hash on the download page.

sha1sum 2018-10-09-raspbian-stretch-lite.zip 
fe99e1c4e64c44a67468889e64d732f601968e87  2018-10-09-raspbian-stretch-lite.zip

Decompress.

unzip 2018-10-09-raspbian-stretch-lite.zip 

Install

Place a microsd card in your desktop system and write the image.

In this instance, the microsd card is detected as sdd.

sudo dd if=2018-10-09-raspbian-stretch-lite.img of=/dev/sdd bs=4M

Initiate a rescan of the device.

su root -c 'echo 1 > /sys/block/sdd/device/rescan'

Edit config

Mount the RPi boot partition and make some changes.

su -m
mount /dev/sdd1 /mnt
vi /mnt/config.txt

Some example options for config.txt.

sdtv_mode=2
#dtparam=audio=on
gpu_mem=16
dtparam=spi=on
dtoverlay=spi-bcm2835
#dtoverlay=mcp2515-can0,oscillator=16000000,interrupt=25
dtparam=i2c_arm=on
dtparam=i2c_vc=on
#dtoverlay=w1-gpio,gpiopin=4
#dtoverlay=dht11,gpiopin=17

Enable network login for default user.

touch /mnt/ssh

Un mount the boot partition.

umount /mnt

Edit networking

Mount the system partition and set up networking. This will allow us to login after the Pi boots and finalise the set up.

mount /dev/sdd2 /mnt
vi /mnt/etc/network/interfaces
vi /mnt/etc/resolv.conf

Protect resolv.conf from errant applications which may wish to break it.

chattr +i /mnt/etc/resolv.conf

Un mount the system partition.

umount /mnt

Boot Pi and login to fix the O/S

It will take some time before the Pi is available, be patient.

ssh pi@X.X.X.X
sudo -s

Update

apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

Install sysvinit and restart

apt-get install sysvinit-core sysvinit-utils
sync
reboot

Remove systemd

ssh pi@X.X.X.X
sudo -s
apt-get remove --purge --auto-remove systemd
echo -e 'Package: systemd\nPin: origin ""\nPin-Priority: -1' > /etc/apt/preferences.d/systemd

Disable undesired services

update-rc.d dhcpcd disable
update-rc.d motd disable
update-rc.d triggerhappy disable
update-rc.d cron disable
update-rc.d dbus disable
update-rc.d dphys-swapfile disable
update-rc.d ntp disable
update-rc.d avahi-daemon disable
update-rc.d bluetooth disable
update-rc.d plymouth disable
update-rc.d paxctld disable

Edit /etc/inittab and disable unnecessary gettys and reboot.

Set up swap

Because we disabled the useless swap generator, do it by hand.

swapoff /var/swap
dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/swap bs=4M count=512
mkswap /var/swap
echo "/var/swap none swap sw 0 0" >> /etc/fstab
reboot

Finish off

When we log in now we have a mean and lean linux installation but no service management. I prefer runit or you may prefer daemontools.

Set up runit/daemontools now as required and you are done.

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