Comments on a fresh installation on a rpi2

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Comments on a fresh installation on a rpi2

Postby hendry » Sun Feb 15, 2015 3:59 pm

Can't seem to mount external USB drive. https://twitter.com/kaihendry/status/566808870010359808

http://ix.io/gl2 timedatectl crashes

IIUC netctl is included. IMO it shouldn't be. Systemd-networkd ftw ;)

There is a /etc/systemd/network/eth0.network IIRC. It should be just $this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '$ cat /etc/systemd/network/any.network
[Match]
Name=*
[Network]
DHCP=both
')


IIRC wpa_supplicant was not installed. It really should be there by default. Configuring it is a PITA.

Consider the mouthful `systemctl start wpa_supplicant@wlan0` (WISH this could be tab-completed) will quit because `/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant-wlan0.conf` doesn't exist. AFAIK all you need is `update_config=1` to prime the file to get going, then you can use `wpa_cli` to join the network.

Using `wpa_cli` to join a network. omg what a HORRIBLE HORRIBLE UI. For example if you don't put essid in quotes it fails to add. Crazy.

I was surprised I could ssh in with the password root. I strongly believe /etc/ssh/sshd_config's PasswordAuthentication should be set to no and there should be some note in the installation, how to drop in your ssh public key.

I found http://surf.suckless.org/ using the standard webkit library really slow. Especially whilst just curling in the URLs. Am I missing something? Is there a better optimised webkit library?


Besides these issues, thank you for this port. Good work and I hope to see it getting better.
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Re: Comments on a fresh installation on a rpi2

Postby WarheadsSE » Sun Feb 15, 2015 4:16 pm

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')IRC wpa_supplicant was not installed. It really should be there by default. Configuring it is a PITA.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I') was surprised I could ssh in with the password root. I strongly believe /etc/ssh/sshd_config's PasswordAuthentication should be set to no and there should be some note in the installation, how to drop in your ssh public key.

Nope. Both would remove the KISS from our progenitor.
sshd's config is something that user should be fixing as a first-off.

1) changing root's password.
2) setting up keys.
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Re: Comments on a fresh installation on a rpi2

Postby sdjf » Sun Feb 15, 2015 10:02 pm

I am just another regular Arch user and agree wholeheartedly with WarheadsSE comments.

Hendry, the more things that are installed as default because various (not all) users want them, the less lightweight Arch becomes. Many of us do not need or want wpa_supplicant, and I appreciate it not being in the default distribution. And security is the user's responsibility.
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Re: Comments on a fresh installation on a rpi2

Postby hendry » Mon Feb 16, 2015 7:12 am

I would appreciate netctl not being in the default distro.

Instead of being a shill for WarHeadsSE, I wonder how to get my other questions answered. Like https://twitter.com/kaihendry/status/566808870010359808
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Re: Comments on a fresh installation on a rpi2

Postby pepedog » Mon Feb 16, 2015 8:32 am

Someone on Twitter gave the correct answer
I
Install dialog and use wifi-menu (uses netctl)
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Re: Comments on a fresh installation on a rpi2

Postby hendry » Mon Feb 16, 2015 9:24 am

If my USB external hard drive doesn't have external power... then what do I do?
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Re: Comments on a fresh installation on a rpi2

Postby pepedog » Mon Feb 16, 2015 10:30 am

Buy a suitable powered hub, you can power the pi from it too.
There may be a setting in /boot/config.txt that takes power output from usb higher (it may still not be enough), will let you investigate http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewt ... 81#p593507
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