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Re: Installing/Preparing Debian on a headless system

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On Wed 09 Mar 2022 at 15:57:04 +0100, Christian Britz wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> after learning that the Debian-based RaspberryPi OS does not get
> security fixes always in time (see dirty-pipe), I am considering
> installing pure Debian on my system. It seems not all proprietary
> components are supported, but I don't need video acceleration anyway,
> for example. My Pi acts as a home server.
> 
> The thing is, the Pi is headless, it was never connected to a monitor or
> keyboard, all configuration was done via SSH on a pre-built Raspberry PI
> OS image. I do not even have an USB keyboard and the Pi has obviously no
> PS/2 connectors.
> 
> Do you have some ideas for me, how I could prepare a minimal Debian
> image on my notebook which is able to boot on the Pi and has already an
> user and SSH configured? Everything else I would setup remotely.

The short answer is that you use the network-console udeb. To do that,
I preseed wirh

  d-i anna/choose_modules string network-console

I boot with  a netinst using hd-media and pressed from a file.

-- 
Brian.

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Installing/Preparing Debian on a headless system Christian Britz <cbritz@t-online.de> - 2022-03-09 16:00 +0100
  Re: Installing/Preparing Debian on a headless system Christian Britz <cbritz@t-online.de> - 2022-03-09 17:00 +0100
    Re: Installing/Preparing Debian on a headless system Christian Britz <cbritz@t-online.de> - 2022-03-09 17:10 +0100
      Re: Installing/Preparing Debian on a headless system Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2022-03-09 17:20 +0100
        Re: Installing/Preparing Debian on a headless system David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-03-14 02:10 +0100
          Re: Installing/Preparing Debian on a headless system Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2022-03-15 13:50 +0100
            Re: Installing/Preparing Debian on a headless system David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-03-15 19:30 +0100
      Re: Installing/Preparing Debian on a headless system "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2022-03-09 19:00 +0100
        Re: Installing/Preparing Debian on a headless system Christian Britz <cbritz@t-online.de> - 2022-03-09 21:30 +0100
  Re: Installing/Preparing Debian on a headless system Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2022-03-09 17:00 +0100
  Re: Installing/Preparing Debian on a headless system Christian Britz <cbritz@t-online.de> - 2022-03-10 00:50 +0100
  Re: Installing/Preparing Debian on a headless system Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> - 2022-03-10 03:20 +0100
  Re: Installing/Preparing Debian on a headless system Christian Britz <cbritz@t-online.de> - 2022-03-10 08:40 +0100
    Re: Installing/Preparing Debian on a headless system Christian Britz <cbritz@t-online.de> - 2022-03-10 08:40 +0100
  Re: Installing/Preparing Debian on a headless system Keith Bainbridge <keithrboz@gmail.com> - 2022-03-10 08:40 +0100

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