rockstrap for Radxa Rock

What is it?

rockstrap is a script for installing Debian GNU/Linux Jessie 8.0 armhf to a sd card for Radxa Rock.

Why?

Why not? :-) I hate downloading big sd card images and dd'ing them onto my sd cards resulting in an overblown Debian installation with software I am never going to use. You'll simply get a basic Debian installation like from the netinstaller with some more basic packages (see below).

What you will need and how to I use it

There is some software you have to install before using my installer:

python3
python3-colorama
sed
psmisc
fdisk
curl
dosfstools
cdebootstrap
qemu-user-static

If there is no package python3-colorama you can also install it with pip3 install colorama after installing python3-pip via aptitude / apt-get.

You'll be warned if something is missing.

Usage

Just look at the help: ./rockstrap.py -h

Packages already included

debian standard packages
apt-transport-https
aptitude
binutils
ca-certificates
console-data
console-setup
cpufreqd
cpufrequtils
curl
dbus
htop
iw
keyboard-configuration
locales
ntp
openssh-server
psmisc
tzdata
vim
wireless-tools
wpasupplicant

I want wheezy instead of jessie

Open the script with vim and type :%s/jessie/wheezy. Then close vim with :wq. That's it.

Warnings

The installer enables SSH root login and password authentication so you can easily ssh to your new Debian installation. For security reasons you shouldn't use that in a production environment. Switch to pubkey authentication instead.

There have been error reports that this script doesn't work on Ubuntu so you need to use a Debian host.

Am I allowed to modify and share it?

Yes, of course but please keep the author name where it is :-)

Problems?

Open an issue on GitHub, please.

Questions?

Contact me on IRC via c0d3z3r0 @ freenode.net

License

This is open source software, licensed under GPLv2. See the file LICENSE for details.

c0d3z3r0/rockstrap