Minibain for pi 0 w?

[jdaie]

Does anyone knows where to find Minibain for pi 0 w? I'm working on a project base on pi 0 w, it takes one and a half minutes to boot up a raspbain. Minibain only needs 10 seconds. But it seems that there is no wifi driver installed

[fruitoftheloom]

Does anyone knows where to find Minibain for pi 0 w? I'm working on a project base on pi 0 w, it takes one and a half minutes to boot up a raspbain. Minibain only needs 10 seconds. But it seems that there is no wifi driver installed

The MiniBian latest release pre-dates the ZeroW and is over 2 years since last updated:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/minibi ... rce=navbar


It is based of end of life Raspbian Jessie have you fully updated ??

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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

[jdaie]

Does anyone knows where to find Minibain for pi 0 w? I'm working on a project base on pi 0 w, it takes one and a half minutes to boot up a raspbain. Minibain only needs 10 seconds. But it seems that there is no wifi driver installed

The MiniBian latest release pre-dates the ZeroW and is over 2 years since last updated:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/minibi ... rce=navbar


It is based of end of life Raspbian Jessie have you fully updated ??

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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

I have tried to fully update and upgrade, the system then failed to boot up after that. The screen stop with the colorful frame which shows at the beginning of Raspbain startup.

[ejolson]

I have tried to fully update and upgrade, the system then failed to boot up after that. The screen stop with the colorful frame which shows at the beginning of Raspbain startup.

There are currently two versions of Raspbian: the full-fat version and lite. Unlike with milk, the lite version is quite good.

Minibian stopped being updated about the time that the lite version was made available. The lite version is officially supported and in my experience boots fast.

[Gavinmc42]

Try piCore if you want a fast booting Linux.
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.ph ... ,57.0.html

To go faster means optimizing Buildroot
http://www.jumpnowtek.com/rpi/Raspberry ... droot.html

Faster again is baremetal, I prefer Ultibo these days, but it may not yet do what you want.
https://ultibo.org/

I have heard systemd will boot the kernel in about 2secs, the user space stuff takes the rest of the time.
http://intestinate.com/pilfs/guide.html

Less than 2 seconds and you need to write your own bootcode/start.elf.
https://github.com/christinaa/rpi-open-firmware

Of the above only piCore has WiFi support?

Alternatively, start with Raspbian Lite and remove most of the stuff.
And use a A1 rated SD card?

[mikerr]

There's a slightly more up to date version at https://sourceforge.net/projects/minibianwifi/
which works on PiZeroes with Realtek/Ralink wifi dongles

You will need wifi drivers for PiZeroW :

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wget https://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/pool/main/f/firmware-nonfree/firmware-brcm80211_20161130-3+rpt3_all.deb
dpkg -i firmware-brcm80211_20161130-3+rpt3_all.deb

and a firmware update:

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rpi-update ef7621d91cb58ccc856c3c17ddda28685edd23f3

Just uploaded a version with that already done at https://sourceforge.net/projects/minibianwifi/

[jdaie]

There's a slightly more up to date version at https://sourceforge.net/projects/minibianwifi/
which works on PiZeroes with Realtek/Ralink wifi dongles

You will need wifi drivers for PiZeroW :

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wget https://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/pool/main/f/firmware-nonfree/firmware-brcm80211_20161130-3+rpt3_all.deb
dpkg -i firmware-brcm80211_20161130-3+rpt3_all.deb

and a firmware update:

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rpi-update ef7621d91cb58ccc856c3c17ddda28685edd23f3

Just uploaded a version with that already done at https://sourceforge.net/projects/minibianwifi/

It works! Thank you Mikerr !!