Debian/Raspberry Pi

Download

Rishabh Thaney has made builds for Raspberry Pi using Debian;

• https://people.sugarlabs.org/rishabh/,

See also:

• GSoC 2017 Project Ideas by Sugar Labs,
• GSoC 2017 Proposal by Rishabh, and;
• GSoC 2017 Blog by Rishabh.

Testing

Starts at color age-screens f3 as user "pi", wireless works; showing ad-hoc and wireless Access points.

Wed 09 Aug 2017

Home View (F3 key) screenshot:

Does not auto-mount an inserted USB.

Comparison

Please also compare against Fedora 26 SoaS, as it has many more working activities, although it does not have wireless firmware. (Proprietary wireless drivers have to be loaded after install)

Reproducing

This was reproduced on Debian stretch platform which was set up in an schroot shell on Ubuntu.

Setup Schroot

Set up a schroot environment like this:

• Install the schroot and debootstrap packages,

sudo apt install schroot debootstrap

• Create the stretch filesystem,

sudo mkdir -p /srv/chroot/stretch
sudo debootstrap stretch /srv/chroot/stretch

• Make a file /etc/schroot/chroot.d/stretch,

[stretch]
type=directory
personality=linux
directory=/srv/chroot/stretch

• Log into your schroot shell from the terminal,

sudo schroot -c stretch

See https://wiki.debian.org/Schroot for alternate methods.

Setup Builder

Setup the builder within the schroot shell like this;

• Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/sugarlabs/rpi23-gen-image

• Install dependencies by going through the README.md file and executing the commands described,

Run Builder

• Change your directory to the cloned repo and run this command to start the building process:

sh rpi23-gen-image.sh

This takes some time as the scripts start downloading and configuring packages to build an image.

• Once the process is complete in the terminal, navigate to this directory:

~/rpi23-gen-image/images/stretch

to find the image that was built.

Some changes have been made to the original repo: https://github.com/drtyhlpr/rpi23-gen-image which can be viewed in the commit history.

Adding the automatic login feature

• While the image is building, navigate to the following directory:

~/rpi23-gen-image/images/stretch/build/chroot/etc

and depending on the stage of the build process wait for a folder named 'lightdm' to appear.

• Then open this file with nano/gedit and with root priviledges:

~/rpi23-gen-image/images/stretch/build/chroot/etc/lightdmlightdm.conf.dpkg-new

• Add/uncomment the following lines and configure them as shown below:

autologin-session = sugar
[Seat:*]
#type=xlocal
pam-service=lightdm
pam-autologin-service=lightdm-autologin
autologin-user=pi #(change this if you have configured a different user)
autologin-password=raspberry #(change this if you have configured a different password)
autologin-user-timeout=0
session-wrapper=/etc/X11/Xsession
greeter-session=lightdm-greeter

• Save the file and wait for the build process to complete.
• Boot into your image with this configuration and autologin should work fine.