Work in progress - this probably will not work for you unless you're happy to mess around.
0. Install ansible & passlib, and clone this repo.
Open a terminal & run the following:
pip install ansible passlib
- Ansible automates the setup of the Pi once Raspbian is installed on it.
- Passlib is needed to generate the user password.
Run:
git clone https://github.com/agoramaHub/ansible-raspberry-server
cd ansible-raspberry-server
All the following steps assume that you have this repo cloned & are running the commands from that directory (the root directory of the repo).
1. Get Raspbian onto your SD card.
- Download Etcher
- Download Raspbian Lite (if you want to use the Raspberry Pi with a screen, keyboard & mouse, then download the full Raspbian with desktop & recommended software - we're assuming that you just want to use it as a server.)
- Open the downloaded image in Etcher, plug in your SD card & flash it. Make sure you select the right drive if you have an external hard drive attached - flashing will overwrite anything that's on a drive.
- Unplug & plug your SD card back into your computer so it mounts again - we need to edit some files on the SD card before we can put it in the Pi.
(If you're allergic to Electron, you can also follow the guide for manual installation.)
2. Enable SSH
Raspberry Pis don't have SSH enabled by default. This is to ensure that you don't accidentally make your Pi accessible to the internet with the default password still set. Otherwise online weirdos will try to do bad things with your Pi.
To enable SSH, do the following:
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If you haven't done so already, insert the mini SD card into an SD adapter & plug it in to your computer (NOT the Raspberry Pi!)
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Open up your Terminal & run the following:
touch /Volumes/boot/ssh(If you get an error that says
No such file or directory, unplug & plug back in your SD card - you should have a drive called "boot" show up in the Finder.)
2. Edit wi-fi settings
You can skip this step if you only want to use the Pi with an Ethernet cable.
If you want to use your Raspberry Pi on a wifi network, you need to give it your wifi password.
Change your wifi name & wifi password in the file called wpa_supplicant.conf in this repo.
Once you've done that, copy it onto the SD card:
cp ./wpa_supplicant.conf /Volumes/boot/
(source)
3. Put the SD card in the Pi & start it up
The moment you've been waiting for.
4. Try logging in to the Pi
ssh pi@raspberrypi.local
The default password is raspberry. (Nothing will show up while typing the password)
If you're able to log in, you're all good :)
If you can't log in, ie. you get an error saying Permission denied, or nothing happens at all, then you will need to find the IP address of your Raspberry Pi instead.
First off, make sure that the Pi is plugged in & the lights are on!
_(One possible way to find your Pi -- using `nmap`)_
nmap is a network scanning tool.
You can run the following command to find all hosts on your local network that have port 22 (the SSH port) open:
nmap -p 22 192.168.0.1/24
You can then try logging in to pi@<whatever IP you found> - if you can log in, then you're good.
If you don't have nmap installed, try the following if you're on a Mac:
brew install nmap
On Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install nmap
5. Add your SSH key & change your password
ansible-playbook 01-auth.yml
This will prompt you for the location of your SSH public key and a password for the pi user.
In most cases, you should be fine with the default value for the SSH key, ie. if you don't know what you should input there, keep the default by pressing enter.
The output of this step is saved in vars/auth.yml.
6. Run the playbook
ansible-playbook all.yml --ask-pass