hhlp / raspberry-pi

AlmaLinux Raspberry Pi

AlmaLinux Official Raspberry Pi Image

Last Update 2021-11-12: Changelog below.

This repository is the home of the Official AlmaLinux Raspberry Pi Image.

Images made possible by the incredible work contributed by the immortal Pablo Greco, Mark Verlinde and Fabian Arrotin.

AlmaLinux Raspberry Pi Quick Start

This has been tested on Raspberry Pi 3 and 4.

Please file any bugs on https://bugs.almalinux.org and feel free to discuss on our Community Chat, the Forums or Reddit.

Step 1: Grab the image, verify the CHECKSUM and burn it to an SD card using Fedora Media Writer , Balena Etcher, RPi Image, dd or whatever tool you choose.

Step 2: Insert your SD Card into your Raspberry PI and boot!

Step 3: Login. The user is root password is almalinux.

Step 4: Resize your root filesystem by running rootfs-expand. (Thanks Fabian!)

Bonus Round #1: Connecting to Wi-Fi.

WI-FI NOW WORKS OUT OF THE BOX!

Step 1: First, let's make sure wifi is enabled. nmcli radio wifi it should respond with enabled. Great.

Step 2: Check out the list of local Wi-Fi networks next to you nmcli dev wifi list. You should see the one you want to connect to here.

Step 3: Connect to the Wi-Fi network. We'll use the --ask option so that we can provide the password silently. nmcli --ask dev wifi connect network-ssid

Step 4: Success! Your wlan0 interface should now pull an IP via DHCP and be active. You can verify this via nmcli con show to check physical layer connection and then ip a to see if you've gotten an IP.

Bonus Round #2: Getting GNOME working.

Step 1: If you'd like to install just a barebones GNOME desktop environment use dnf groupinstall gnome-desktop (350MB download, 1.1GB installed). You may have to install additional packages as needed. If you'd like to install a more comprehensive GNOME environment then use dnf groupinstall "Server with GUI". This comes with the GNOME GUI and server utils (890MB download, 2.4GB installed).

Step 2: systemctl set-default graphical

Step 3: reboot

Step 4: Success!

After Installation

If you installed a GUI, and your screen has a black border around it, apply this fix:

Step 1: Open a terminal

Step 2: sudo nano /boot/config.txt

Step 3: Add the following line: disable_overscan=1

Step 4: Type Ctrl+x on your keyboard to exit nano, and a little message at the bottom or the terminal will say, “save modified buffer?’. Type y for ‘yes’.

Step 5: reboot

Changelog

2021-11-12

• Updated to AlmaLinux 8.5
• Updated Kernel to version 5.10.78

2021-10-05

• Relocated images, added kernels and release packages to RPi-specific repository
• Updated Kernel to version 5.10.60
• Fixed Wi-Fi via an updated linux-firmware package to include Matthias Brugger's [email protected] fix for Raspberry Pi
• Include Fabian Arrotin's [email protected] rootfs-expand
• Reduced swap size to 100MB to match Raspberry Pi OS