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ArchLinux on a Raspberry Pi

Install the system to the SD card

Connect the SD card to your computer and open the terminal.

  • Find the disk id
df -h
  • Unmount the disk
sudo diskutil unmount /dev/disk2s2
  • Replace /dev/disk2s2/ with /dev/rdisk2 (it might not be disk2s2, verify first!)
sudo dd bs=1m if=~/Downloads/archlinuxarm-13-06-2012\ 2/archlinuxarm-13-06-2012.img of=/dev/rdisk2

Expand the SD partition

Arch Linux with 3 partitions

SSH into your raspberry pi and run

fdisk /dev/mmcblk0
  • Delete the second partition
Press:
d [Enter]
2 [Enter]
  • Create a new partition and use the default sizes prompted
n [Enter]
p [Enter]
2 [Enter]
[Enter]
[Enter]
  • Save & Exit
w [Enter]
shutdown -r now
  • After reboot
resize2fs /dev/mmcblk0p2
  • (Optional) Create swap file
#fallocate -l 128M /swapfile
#chmod 600 /swapfile
#mkswap /swapfile
#swapon /swapfile

Edit /etc/fstab and add the following:

/swapfile none swap defaults 0 0

Update the system & Install Packages

pacman -Syu
pacman -Sy base-devel
pacman -Sy core/dnsutils
pacman -Sy extra/python2
pacman -Sy extra/python2-pip
pacman -Sy extra/python2-lxml
pacman -Sy sudo vim zsh

sudo pip2 install mitmproxy

Update the hostname

touch /etc/hostname && echo "new-hostname" > /etc/hostname

nano /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1      new-hostname.domain.org   localhost.localdomain      localhost    new-hostname
::1            new-hostname.domain.org   localhost.localdomain      localhost    new-hostname

Add user

  • Assuming the username is couto and it has sudo privileges wheel and uses the /bin/zsh shell instead of /bin/bash
useradd -m -g users -G wheel -s /bin/zsh couto
chfn couto
passwd couto
  • to allow the wheel group to have sudo privileges:
visudo

## Uncomment to allow members of group wheel to execute any command
%wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL

ln -s /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/python
git clone git://github.com/joyent/node.git && cd node && git checkout v0.8.8
./configure --shared-openssl --without-snapshot
make
sudo make install

Security

pacman -Syu iptables fail2ban

Depending on the use you might want to consider some advice

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