Software reference

OS installation

Linux barebones quickstart

Ubuntu quickstart

Raspberry Pi OS quickstart

Raspberry Pi Ubuntu quickstart

Kali quickstart

Centos quickstart

Cygwin quickstart

Clone a Pi
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 (old)

Update gentoo kernel

Upgrade gentoo

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
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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.

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.

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 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