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Re: Installing/Preparing Debian on a headless system

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On Wed, 9 Mar 2022, 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.
>

There is someone who does prebuilt pure debian images that will get you
started.

https://itsfoss.com/debian-raspberry-pi/

This reply from Gunnar Wolf might help you too:

Hello Tim!

Tim Woodall dijo [Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 12:49:18PM +0000]:
> Hi,
>
> Many thanks for your debian images for the raspberry pi. They solved
> my
> confusion after I tried to do this myself and failed miserably.

I am very happy that my work is useful to you!

> One tiny change I'd quite like you to consider is either an
> authorized_keys file for root where you publish the private key or a
> root password set rather than empty so that you can login using ssh on
> an initial boot.

Take a look at /boot/firmware/sysconf.txt (that is, /sysconf.txt in
the firmware partition, the partition formatted with vfat). It has:

# root_authorized_key - Set an authorized key for a root ssh login
#root_authorized_key=

Greetings!

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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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