Raspbian flavor: RaspRazor

[Max]

Cute but sharp: RaspRazor



My first attempt at creating an unofficial Raspbian flavor.

• Razor/Qt desktop environment
• Designed to fit on a 1 GB SD card
• Boots straight into X
• Various C++, Python and Ruby programming tools
• Various utilities (focuswriter, speedcrunch, juffed, easypaint)
• Couple games
• Links webbrowser. Ugly but fast.

Pi user's password is: raspberry (not needed to login locally, but you do need it if you want to use sudo).

Download link: RaspRazor site

[asb]

Neat, I'll have to try to make some time to check this out - I'm very curious as to how razor-qt does on the Pi. I take it you're using openbox as WM? You might want to advertise this image to the razor-qt mailing list: http://razor-qt.org/support/

[Max]

Neat, I'll have to try to make some time to check this out - I'm very curious as to how razor-qt does on the Pi. I take it you're using openbox as WM?

Yes, uses Openbox

You might want to advertise this image to the razor-qt mailing list: http://razor-qt.org/support/

Maybe later. Not sure what the current mood towards the Pi is there (qt device program troubles).

[mpthompson]

Max,

I added your image to the list of Raspbian Based images in our Wiki: http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianImages

One suggestion. Could you add the information in your first posting of this thread to your web page so that people who get to your image via the Raspbian wiki see the important information about using your image?

Great stuff. Thanks.

[rdnetto]

Glad to see I'm not the only one interested in using Razor-QT on the Raspberry Pi. Just a few things I was wondering:

• Do you have any kind of repository set up for the Razor-QT packages, or did you just install the .debs?
• Which version of Razor-QT is this - the last stable version (0.4.1), or the latest git version?

[Max]

One suggestion. Could you add the information in your first posting of this thread to your web page so that people who get to your image via the Raspbian wiki see the important information about using your image?

Done.
Thanks for the link

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Glad to see I'm not the only one interested in using Razor-QT on the Raspberry Pi. Just a few things I was wondering:

• Do you have any kind of repository set up for the Razor-QT packages, or did you just install the .debs?
• Which version of Razor-QT is this - the last stable version (0.4.1), or the latest git version?

It is 0.4.1 stable.
Compiled it from source unmodified (apart from a one-line modification in their packaging script, as they had a "/usr/lib64" path somewhere)

Repo is currently "deb http://repo.berryboot.com /"
Public key at /pubkey.txt - fingerprint: B391 3ECB 1D86 6135 8B61 4D70 4455 1FAD 1523 1890
Comes preinstalled with Rasprazor.

[jadecolour]

Hi,

Thanks a lot for creating this image. I just wanted to try out first with a 1GB SD card at hand and this images seems perfect to fit into the size limit.

I've successfully booted it up and now I'd like to make the board headless for pure remote access. But now I have no idea on how to skip the boot menu on operating system selection, where a key-stroke from the keyboard is required.

What if I do not want to connect a keyboard and a display and simply rely on remote SSH access? Is there any configuration file I can change?

I've checked the berryterminal site, seems linuxrc is the file that contains what I could change for my purpose. But that's not found in the downloaded image.

Any suggestion is welcome.

Regards,

[Max]

Might release a version of Berryboot (the bundled boot selector thingy) with a default selection after a timeout in the future.

But this distribution is not really aimed at headless stuff, given that it always boots into the X GUI.
You might want to try some of the other Raspbian images like Darkbasic.

[jadecolour]

Including a timeout would make sense,

I've downloaded other packages, the image sizes are at least 2GB. So only your image fits my 1GB card.

Might release a version of Berryboot (the bundled boot selector thingy) with a default selection after a timeout in the future.

But this distribution is not really aimed at headless stuff, given that it always boots into the X GUI.
You might want to try some of the other Raspbian images like Darkbasic.

[caderoux]

I tried this image - waited for a ping response (I have a reserved IP on my DHCP server for the Pi) and then checked the TV to find out that it was waiting for a boot selection.

After that, the menus seemed to be off the screen, as I could see the clock and the background and move the mouse.

Still it never picked up its reserved IP, so I wasn't able to ssh in to edit the config. I'll try to find some time to fool around with it a little more tomorrow.

[Max]

I tried this image - waited for a ping response (I have a reserved IP on my DHCP server for the Pi) and then checked the TV to find out that it was waiting for a boot selection.

After that, the menus seemed to be off the screen, as I could see the clock and the background and move the mouse.

Might need to remove "disable_overscan" from config.txt if you are going to hook it up to a TV instead of a normal computer display.

Still it never picked up its reserved IP, so I wasn't able to ssh in to edit the config. I'll try to find some time to fool around with it a little more tomorrow.

SSH is disabled by default.

[Max]

Including a timeout would make sense,

I've downloaded other packages, the image sizes are at least 2GB. So only your image fits my 1GB card.

Released a new version of Berryboot with 3 second timeout.
Can find it here: http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewt ... 63&t=12776

(if you want to keep your existing files instead of performing a fresh installation, copy the files to the FAT partition, open cmdline.txt in a text editor and add: "datadev=mmcblk0p2")

With the Berryboot installer you can also install the official Raspbian image, which might be more suitable than RaspRazor for SSH work.
Because it uses SquashFS LZO compression it will fit on a 1 GB card as well.

[jadecolour]

I've tried it and did not work for me,

I used the following command to format my SD card

$mkdosfs /dev/sdb -F16 -I

and then unzip the berryboot-20120728.zip file to the root of it.

Booting shows the color pattern screen and scrolling text, eventually failed at not finding /boot/BerrybootInstaller.gz

But there is no /boot directory here since the all files are unzipped to the root directory.

I tried to make a new 'boot' directory and then unzipped files under that, this time there was not output on TV.

Am I doing something wrong formatting the SD card?

Regards,

[Max]

I've tried it and did not work for me,

I used the following command to format my SD card

$mkdosfs /dev/sdb -F16 -I

Create a primary partition with your favorite partitioning tool (e.g. fdisk/sfdisk/cfdisk/parted) and then mkdosfs on /dev/sdb1 instead of sdb.
Also make sure that it formats it as vfat (long filenames)

Alternatively, put the sdcard in a digital camera or windows pc and let it format the card for you.

[AlArenal]

Just burnt the image but it doesn't like my keyboard. I end up in berryboot menu and cannot advance. My keyboard is a standard Logitech USB (cable) kb with no issues whatsoever in Arch, Debian 6 + 7, Raspbian, RISC OS, Fedora, ...

[Max]

Just burnt the image but it doesn't like my keyboard. I end up in berryboot menu and cannot advance. My keyboard is a standard Logitech USB (cable) kb with no issues whatsoever in Arch, Debian 6 + 7, Raspbian, RISC OS, Fedora, ...

"enter" doesn't work?

[AlArenal]

Nope. It seems to me the keyboard does not get initialized as I even cannot activate the num-lock on it. Switched sd card to my raspbian card and everything works. I switch back to RaspRazor and still it hangs in the menu.
Only devices attached are Logitech usb keyboard and mouse. Even disconnected the mouse but with no effect.

[Max]

Nope. It seems to me the keyboard does not get initialized as I even cannot activate the num-lock on it. Switched sd card to my raspbian card and everything works. I switch back to RaspRazor and still it hangs in the menu.
Only devices attached are Logitech usb keyboard and mouse. Even disconnected the mouse but with no effect.

Perhaps it does not behave as a standard USB input device and requires a special driver, which we do not automatically load.
If you do "lsmod" under Raspbian what modules do you see?

Does work with my own Logitech (classic 200) keyboard. Both when having it plugged in at boot, and when plugging it in later.

[jadecolour]

Okay, this time it works almost perfectly for me. I like the the configuration menu where you can choose to enable SSH, etc.

Still two minor issues though:

1. Now every time it boots it gives a warning on mount point '/squashfs' not exist.
2. There is a failed service resize2fs_once printout line for every boot.

I resized up my partition through the configuration menu.

Looked in the /etc/init.d/resizefs_once and saw that very script itself should have been removed after the first run. Somehow it is still in that directory and the service is still enabled. Now I manually remove the service and the failure printout line is gone.

Maybe this was caused by my resizing the partition through the configuration menu?

Anyway, now it boots perfectly and I can work from the comfort of my big monitor instead of looking hard on the CRT 480i screen.

Thanks a bunch!

I've tried it and did not work for me,

I used the following command to format my SD card

$mkdosfs /dev/sdb -F16 -I

Create a primary partition with your favorite partitioning tool (e.g. fdisk/sfdisk/cfdisk/parted) and then mkdosfs on /dev/sdb1 instead of sdb.
Also make sure that it formats it as vfat (long filenames)

Alternatively, put the sdcard in a digital camera or windows pc and let it format the card for you.

[AlArenal]

Embarassing..... It seems science is right and the human brain, my brain that is, ceases above age 30...

Indeed my 'Logitech' kb is a Cherry Evolution Stream XT and that's why the module hid_cherry is loaded. But shouldn't it just be needed for the few multimedia keys I'm not using anyways?

[Max]

(Clarification for others reading the thread: jadecolour is running the official Raspbian image installed through Berryboot. Rasprazor doesn't have a configuration menu)

Okay, this time it works almost perfectly for me. I like the the configuration menu where you can choose to enable SSH, etc.

Still two minor issues though:

1. Now every time it boots it gives a warning on mount point '/squashfs' not exist.

Can safely ignore that message.
Just Debian's startup scripts noticing that there is a mountpoint it has not been told about (used by Berryboot internally).

2. There is a failed service resize2fs_once printout line for every boot.

I resized up my partition through the configuration menu.

No need to resize it when you install through Berryboot.
It always formats your card to span the entire disk.

[Max]

Indeed my 'Logitech' kb is a Cherry Evolution Stream XT and that's why the module hid_cherry is loaded. But shouldn't it just be needed for the few multimedia keys I'm not using anyways?

Wouldn't count on that

Can you try if the following kernel works better for you?
http://dl.berryboot.com/tmp/cherry-kernel.zip

Has the module built-in.
Just extract it to the first FAT partition of your razor sd card.

[AlArenal]

Can you try if the following kernel works better for you?
http://dl.berryboot.com/tmp/cherry-kernel.zip

Has the module built-in.
Just extract it to the first FAT partition of your razor sd card.

That works for the keyboard, but seems to break ethernet. A sudo ifup eth0 brings an error message, that no such device could be found.

[Max]

Can you try if the following kernel works better for you?
http://dl.berryboot.com/tmp/cherry-kernel.zip

Has the module built-in.
Just extract it to the first FAT partition of your razor sd card.

That works for the keyboard, but seems to break ethernet. A sudo ifup eth0 brings an error message, that no such device could be found.

Hmm, seems to be a bug in the image.
To correct try: sudo rm /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules

[AlArenal]

Hmm, seems to be a bug in the image.
To correct try: sudo rm /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules

Ah, that worked! After reboot eth0 is up and running now.

Thank you very much for your support!