Software reference

OS installation

Memtest boot disk
It should be on red-on-black flash drive. Or, get a fresh download of USB zip, it includes a Windows exe to create the boot. Or use the ISO.

Linux barebones quickstart

Ubuntu quickstart

Ubuntu upgrade / reinstall notes

Create and boot from Ubuntu USB
There should always be a boot USB for this in my set, but it needs recreation on new Ubuntu versions... Download the latest 64-bit Ubuntu desktop iso Format a USB drive as FAT (NOT exFAT or NTFS) Burn the iso to the USB, providing a GB of space (we want to add the nvidia driver once booted) sudo usb-creator-gtk Boot with it On startup, select the USB EFI boot option in refind, select "Try Ubuntu", (on MBPro, hit e and add [ nouveau.noaccel=1] to grub line), hit F10 to start Once it is running, start System Settings, select Software, enable proprietary drivers Install, checking the [download as you go] and [install 3rd party stuff] boxes.

Ubuntu repo management
To see what repos Ubuntu is currently using: cat /etc/apt/sources.list

Centos quickstart

Cygwin quickstart

Update gentoo kernel

Upgrade gentoo

Set up a new Pi in 10 minutes
The BEST thing to do is to copy the MicroSD from Carambola (marked with a black 'O'): open a terminal so we can watch the MicroSD /dev/sd{#} assignments sudo tail -f /var/log/syslog take the carambola MicroSD card out of the Pi and put it into an Anker hub (gets less hot than the small MicroSD sleeves - and it WILL get hot!) put another new MicroSD card into another Anker hub open another terminal dcfldd bs=4M if=/dev/sd{Letter of carambola} of=/dev/sd{Letter of new card} They will get HOT... I don't know how to make sure they don't get TOO hot yet... cross your fingers I guess... Drop the new card into the new Pi, boot set up a new config folder rm ~/config cd development/config cp -rp carambola lime && git add lime cd ~ && ln -s development/config/lime config change /etc/hostname change name of exfat "share" partition exfatlabel /dev/disk/by-label/carambola_share lime_share edit /etc/fstab to update partition name (optional) change the uuid of partitions as desired (otherwise you may get kernel/userspace warnings about conflicts when mounting more than one card in an ubuntu host) - note that I've never actually done this... tune2fs /dev/sdaX -U random reboot.. and away we go!

OS X

Raspberry Pi Raspbian setup

Set up OpenWRT on buffalo

   choices (3 is the only sensible!):
       1) hardcode all wan info and hope your network doesn't over-assign (this sucks)
       2) DCHP WAN, bridge lan so ports just become another switch
       3) DCHP WAN, serve up lan on different range than WAN
           this is AWESOME, you can immediately admin from anything that you hardwire up to the LAN ports
           set up a WAN static IP using WAN MAC if you can
           otherwise, to get WAN IP:
                   i can connect laptop to LAN port and get a 192.168.1 address on laptop from router DHCP
                   then i can connect PA LAN to router WAN port and get router IP from 
               
   steps:
       * reset buffalo as needed!
           it always starts with LAN DHCP support for 192.168.1 range, yeah baby
           wire laptop into LAN port and browse to 192.168.1.1
       * set up to get WAN IP via DHCP; make note of it using LAN connection: 192.168.50.57
       * Allow ssh from WAN IPs to router
           openwrt admin page->Network->Firewall->Traffic rules->"open ports on router"
               name: allow-wan-ssh
               Protocol: TCP+UDP
               external port: 22 (i could make it non-standard...)
               ADD
           then you can ssh to the WAN DHCP port, if you know it!  for now, it's: 
               ssh root@192.168.50.57
       * leave LAN support of 192.168.1 ON
           remember you can simply wire anything into LAN ports to get an address!
           and then you can browse to http://192.168.1.1 to admin the router
       ---
       now i can ssh to it from wallee (or anywhere on PA LAN)    
           ssh root@192.168.50.57  root/p*
       ---
       open https port too!  let's admin from wallee
       you have to open WAN port 443 in firewall config
       you also have to install support for this! 
           opkg update
           opkg install luci-ssl
           /etc/init.d/uhttpd restart
       but others have commented that this exposes your router and it WILL get hacked.  good point.
       skip for now

Windows 10 quickstart

Install cygwin
Disable automatic restarts

Install Group Policy Editor from an admin Powershell console:

@echo off 
pushd "%~dp0" 

dir /b %SystemRoot%\servicing\Packages\Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientExtensions-Package~3*.mum >List.txt 
dir /b %SystemRoot%\servicing\Packages\Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientTools-Package~3*.mum >>List.txt 

for /f %%i in ('findstr /i . List.txt 2^>nul') do dism /online /norestart /add-package:"%SystemRoot%\servicing\Packages\%%i" 
pause

Run Group Policy Editor to disable restarts:

Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Update > Configure Automatic Updates
(o) Enabled
[2] Notify for download and auto install?  Or [3] Auto download and notify for install?  Going with [3], we'll see.
(or...) (o) Enabled: No auto-restart with logged on users for scheduled automatic updates installations
---
No auto-restart with logged on users for scheduled automatic updates installation (just in case)
(o) Enabled
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(reboot if you had to change it?  or will that wipe it out?  tbd...)

In a corporate environment, you should quit your job - I mean, you will likely have to redo this after ANY f'in reboot.

OpenELEC multi-boot install
The easiest way is to add a new drive just for OpenElec and install OpenElec to it with the installer. But if you want to SHARE ONE DRIVE with other boots, DO NOT DO THAT :-) Do this instead: On an existing refind-booted system, set up two new ext4 partitions one about 2GB in size, labeled [SYSTEM], and marked as bootable the other with 10GB or more, labeled [STORAGE] prep the drives (no journal, ssd trim) download openelec and mount; there are a couple ways: get the img and install to a thumb get the img and mount (see below) Set up OE drives to mount in other OSes to /openelec-system and /openelec-storage /dev/disk/by-label/SYSTEM /openelec-system ext4 noatime 0 0 /dev/disk/by-label/STORAGE /openelec-storage ext4 noatime 0 0 copy target/KERNEL and target/SYSTEM to SYSTEM cp OpenELEC_img/target/KERNEL /openelec-system/ cp OpenELEC_img/target/SYSTEM /openelec-system/ set up UEFI boot subl /boot/efi/EFI/refind/refind.conf (and add this block) # MDM Trying this, from: http://openelec.tv/forum/64-installation/70783-how-to-efi-booting-openelec-on-new-pc-s-nuc-s # Only I had to change BOOT to SYSTEM. and quiet to debugging. menuentry OpenELEC { icon EFI/refind/icons/os_openelec.png volume SYSTEM ostype Linux loader KERNEL # options "boot=LABEL=SYSTEM disk=LABEL=STORAGE debugging" options "boot=LABEL=SYSTEM disk=LABEL=STORAGE quiet" } I THINK you need one or more of these too, not sure! cp target/boot/bootx64.efi /openelec-system/BOOT cp target/boot/bootx64.efi /boot/efi/EFI/ubuntu/ cp target/boot/bootx64.efi /boot/efi/EFI/ubuntu/

OpenELEC boot from thumb
NOTE: I have the image already on a white stick with red lettering... anyway... Get the latest dev version (stable didn't work for me although this may change) dd it onto a thumb reboot and select to boot to the thumb in BIOS when the boot: line comes up, type "live" to get run a live Kodi rather than run the crufty old installer

Cloud and AWS tasks

AWS clone

create a snapshot of an instance
create an instance of a snapshot

Example...

   instances -> pa-jenkins-win-test -> right-click, Create Image -> 
       { 
           name: pa-jenkins-win-test, 
           AMI ID: ami-57cadc3d
       }
   This creates a new "AMI Image"- WARNING: The source machine will be rebooted!
   monitoring it, waiting for it to be ready... ready.  man that took a while.  
   Select AMI -> rightclick -> Launch...
       instance type: t2.medium (same as original; 2 vCPUs, 4GB mem)
       config: SELECT THE SAME SUBNET (us-east-1d) so on the same LAN and can ping each other; (all other defaults)
       storage: (default)
       tag instance: { name: "pa-jenkins-win-test-older" }
       security: select existing { "pa-shared immed_inno_group raleigh-windows-dev" } (as per Brad, previously - note that "raleigh" is no longer available) 
       LAUNCH
       ---
       select an existing key pair or create a new pair
           let's use the existing ones since this is a shared resource
           2014Dec25_air.pem (it's in my docs repo)
       ----
       monitor it, wait for it to be created...
       because it was cloned from a machine that had the password changed, you can't use the existing key to regenerate
       i didn't realize it was changed??
       anyway, it should be the exact same way to connect to test, but with a diff ip/hostname (*-older)
       yep.  switched IP to 172.30.3.208 and it's good to go!

Expand AWS storage

   stop instance
   in instance details, right-click the block device link (typically /dev/sd1)
   click the EBS ID
   snapshot the volume, wait for it to get to "complete"
   right-click snapshot, create volume
       use the same availability zone: us-east-1d
   on the volume created screen, click to show the volume
       vol-b88c3c45
   get the orig volume:
       vol-5af8f0a0
       https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/v2/home?region=us-east-1#Volumes:search=vol-5af8f0a0;sort=size
   type this into volume filter to see them both:
       vol-b88c3c45|vol-5af8f0a0
   make note of the attachment info for the old 30GB drive:
       Attachment information
       i-ad45941d (pa-jenkins-win-test):/dev/sda1 (attached)
   detach the volume!  holy cow.  
       i thought about restarting the instance and shutting it down first...
       but i think stopping it already did that!  MOVE ON    
   right click new volume, "attach volume"
       start typing instance name (pa-jenkins-win-test worked)
       CHANGE TEH SELECTED DRIVE NAME (xsdf or something) to the original!  /dev/sda1
       geez that's scary, wonder if it will work...
       YEP!!!  AW#ESOMENWESSSS##$$
   type "disk management", right-click the 30gb image, select Extend
   DONE!!!

Ubuntu set up networking
Install NetworkManager, as the wpagui UI sucks sudo apt-get install network-manager-gnome YOU MUST remove interfaces from /etc/network/interfaces so wpa gives them up to nm-applet add nm-applet to startup if needed - i don't think it is needed as it seems to start up automatically now - try rebooting first

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