[Freedombox-discuss] is there a guide to setting up freedbombox on ubuntu

[Melvin Carvalho]

On 27 September 2012 17:34, Nick Daly <nick.m.daly at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Melvin Carvalho
> <melvincarvalho at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Just wondering if there's a (maybe unofficial) guide someplace, to
> > setting up freedombox on ubuntu?
>
> None that I know of, at the moment.  It should be fairly easy, and
> this should be added to the freedom-maker repository too, before too
> long (or Freedom-Maker's config should be broken out into specific
> packages?).
>
> See mk_dreamplug_rootfs [0] for details.  The important bits are (0)
> installing packages, (1) copying service configurations to the running
> system, (2) creating the user, and (3) installing the projects:
>
> MAKE SURE YOU SET ANY ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES APPROPRIATELY.  THIS IS
> NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART AND SHOULD PROBABLY BE DONE IN A VM.
>
> 0. See the packages line in the multistrap config [1]:
>
>    : apt-get install base-files netbase openssh-server zile wget \
>      iproute net-tools hostname module-init-tools wget resolvconf \
>      udev isc-dhcp-client ifupdown rsyslog devio initramfs-tools \
>      uboot-mkimage parted dosfstools apt jwchat prosody \
>      liblua5.1-sec1 monkeysphere iputils-ping haveged python \
>      python-cheetah pandoc python-simplejson make isc-dhcp-server \
>      dialog locales-all uaputl dnsmasq iptables logrotate \
>      python-beautifulsoup python-lxml
>
> 1. This is the hard part.  Manually merge the configurations you need
>    from the source directory into your existing system.  See the
>    source directory for the file configurations we customize [2].  We
>    can be lazy in mk_dreamplug_rootfs:
>
>    : rsync -av $source/ $target
>
> 2. Create the user:
>
>    : adduser fbx
>
> 3. Install projects:
>
>    : # add projects to the image to make it a useful FreedomBox.
>    : bin/projects
>    :
>    : # cleanup and finalize the image so it boots correctly.
>    : bin/finalize
>
> Thanks!


>
> HTH,
> Nick
>
>
> 0:
> https://github.com/NickDaly/freedom-maker/blob/master/mk_dreamplug_rootfs
>
> 1:
> https://github.com/NickDaly/freedom-maker/blob/master/multistrap-configs/fbx-base.conf
>
> 2: https://github.com/NickDaly/freedom-maker/tree/master/source
>
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