On Wed 09 Mar 2022 at 15:57:04 +0100, Christian Britz wrote: > Hello, > > after learning that the Debian-based RaspberryPi OS does not get > security fixes always in time (see dirty-pipe), I am considering > installing pure Debian on my system. It seems not all proprietary > components are supported, but I don't need video acceleration anyway, > for example. My Pi acts as a home server. > > The thing is, the Pi is headless, it was never connected to a monitor or > keyboard, all configuration was done via SSH on a pre-built Raspberry PI > OS image. I do not even have an USB keyboard and the Pi has obviously no > PS/2 connectors. > > Do you have some ideas for me, how I could prepare a minimal Debian > image on my notebook which is able to boot on the Pi and has already an > user and SSH configured? Everything else I would setup remotely.
The short answer is that you use the network-console udeb. To do that, I preseed wirh d-i anna/choose_modules string network-console I boot with a netinst using hd-media and pressed from a file. -- Brian.
