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<div style="font-size: 10pt;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">Thank you, I'll probably give it a try in a couple days, if I get to understand everything...</div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">Do I just plug in a keyboard and screen to the Lime2? </div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">And last question, if I install to eMMC will I be able to uninstall everything from the eMMC later when a valid FreedomBox image is available? </div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">Thank you for your help! </div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><br></div><div id="SignatureBox" dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;font-size:9pt;font-style:italic;"><br></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 10pt;"><div id="LGEmailHeader" dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">------ Message d'origine------</div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><b>De: </b>Sébastien Barthélémy<barthelemy@crans.org></barthelemy@crans.org></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><b>Date: </b>lun., 12 nov. 2018 00:19</div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><b>À: </b><a href="mailto:agropper@healthurl.com">agropper@healthurl.com</a>;</div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><b>Cc: </b>Tunui Franken<a href="mailto:;freedombox-discuss@alioth-lists.debian.net">;freedombox-discuss@alioth-lists.debian.net</a>;</div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><b>Objet :</b>Re: [Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox doesn't appear on my network after installation</div><div dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 12:58 PM Sébastien Barthélémy <<a href="mailto:barthelemy@crans.org">barthelemy@crans.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">I think you can install an armbian recommended by Olimex, and "sudo apt install freedombox" from there.<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote" dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">I have not tried yet, but will probably do.</div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I just gave it a try, it worked (as far as I tested).</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Here a my notes (for my future self, don't follow them blindly). I used an USB-serial cable because I have one, but using ethernet should also work.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="ltr">1/ install armbian following instructions from <a href="https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Getting-Started/">https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Getting-Started/</a><br></div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="ltr"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="ltr">* download Armbian_5.65_Lime2_Debian_stretch_next_<a href="http://4.14.78.7">4.14.78.7</a>z from<br> <a href="https://dl.armbian.com/lime2/Debian_stretch_next.7z">https://dl.armbian.com/lime2/Debian_stretch_next.7z</a><br>* uncompress and copy it to SD card.<br>* plug the USB-Serial adapter, run kermit<br>* power the lime2, watch console logs while it boots<br>* login (root/1234), and follow instructions. I created a user "seb", maybe I should have ctrl-c instead, because freedombox will also want to create a user.<br>* plug the ethernet cable, watch the board get an ip using journaltlf -kf<br>* update the OS:</div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="ltr"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="ltr"> apt update && apt upgrade<br><br>* install to eMMC (use ext4 filesystem)<br><br> nand-sata-install # do not poweroff at the end<br> # clear the boot loader signature on the SD card<br> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1024 seek=8 count=1<br> poweroff<br><br>* remove microSD card<br>* power the board, watch logs on console, login (either from console or SSH),</div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="ltr"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="ltr">congrats, you're running (armbian flavor of) debian!<br></div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="ltr"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="ltr">2/ install freedombox, following instructions from <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Hardware/Debian">https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Hardware/Debian</a></div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="ltr"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="ltr"> sudo DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install freedombox-setup<br> sudo touch /etc/apt/<a href="http://apt.co">apt.co</a>nf.d/50unattended-upgrades #see below<br> sudo /usr/lib/freedombox/setup | tee freedombox-setup.log<br><br> last command failed with<br> [<a href="tel:2018-11-11 22">2018-11-11 22</a>:17:54,758] <a href="http://plinth.ac">plinth.ac</a>tions ERROR Error executing command - ['sudo', '-n', '/usr/share/plinth/actions/upgrades', 'enable-auto'], ,<br> Error: Could not configure unattended-upgrades.<br></div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="ltr"> until I ran "sudo touch /etc/apt/<a href="http://apt.co">apt.co</a>nf.d/50unattended-upgrades"</div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="ltr"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="ltr">reboot (once or twice, I'm not sure what happened) and plinth is now accessible using a web browser.</div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="ltr"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="ltr">3/ enjoy freedombox.</div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="ltr"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="ltr">At this point I noticed that syncthing is not available on this plinth version, and that armbian does not seem to provide buster images. I'm not sure what I'll do.<br></div></div></div></div></div>
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