jbmorley / raspberry-pi-bootstrap

Personal notes on bootstrapping a basic Raspberry Pi setup

Raspberry Pi Bootstrap

Personal notes on bootstrapping a basic Raspberry Pi setup

These notes are intended for my own personal use only; you are free to use them for reference, but you'll almost certainly find they include steps which don't match your preferred configuration or needs. Please don't use my email address in your own setups 🙃.

Getting Started

1. Update the installed software.

   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get upgrade --yes

2. Install some basic dependencies.

   sudo apt-get install --yes \
       emacs \
       mosh \
       zsh
   

3. Make zsh the default shell.

   chsh -s $(which zsh)

4. Customise the zsh prompt (using configure-prompt).

   mkdir -p ~/Projects
   cd ~/Projects
   git clone https://github.com/jbmorley/configure-prompt.git
   echo """FPATH="\$FPATH:\$HOME/Projects/configure-prompt"
   autoload configure-prompt
   configure-prompt
   """ >> ~/.zshrc

5. Install Tailscale.

   curl -fsSL https://pkgs.tailscale.com/stable/ubuntu/focal.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
   curl -fsSL https://pkgs.tailscale.com/stable/ubuntu/focal.list | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tailscale.list
   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get install --yes tailscale
   sudo tailscale up

   You may also wish to disable key expiry for this new machine (see https://login.tailscale.com/admin/machines).

6. Generate an SSH key.

   ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "[e-mail]"

7. Install and authenticate the GitHub CLI. This is one of the most hands-off ways of adding your SSH key if that's how you prefer to authenticate with git).

   curl -fsSL https://cli.github.com/packages/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg
   echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg] https://cli.github.com/packages stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/github-cli.list > /dev/null
   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get install --yes gh
   gh auth login

8. Set the git user.

   git config --global user.email "[e-mail]"
   git config --global user.name "Jason Morley"

9. Set the git editor.

   echo "export EDITOR=emacs" >> ~/.zshrc
   

Additional Steps

• Set the hostname
• authorized_keys
• Update the password