lnqs / raspbian-light

Scripts to create and write basic raspbian images

raspbian-light

The official Raspbian-images are to heavy-weight? Including way to much random stuff, you don't need for your current project?

With create-image.sh you've got a script to generate an image-file containing only a basic system. You can apt-get install whatever you need additionally anyway.

Since I don't saw any good reason to do the root-fs-resizing-stuff on the Pi itself, as other distributions do it, I also included write-image.sh. This scripts writes the image to the SD-card and expands the root-fs.

Usage

create-image.sh

./create-image.sh IMAGEFILE

Where IMAGEFILE is the name of the file to write.

The following options may be set additionally:

Option	Description
-d DISTRIBUTION	set the raspbian distribution to DISTRIBUTION (default is 'wheezy').
-m MIRROR	use MIRROR (default is http://archive.raspbian.org/raspbian).
-s IMAGE_SIZE	create an image of size IMAGE_SIZE (default is 512M).
-b BOOT_SIZE	set the size of the boot-partition to BOOT_SIZE (default is 32M).
-f FIRMWARE_URL	download firmware from FIRMWARE_URL. (default is https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/tarball/master).
-n HOSTNAME	set the system's hostname to HOSTNAME (default is raspberry)
-p PASSWORD	set root-password to PASSWORD (default is raspberry)
-a A,B,C	also install packages A,B,C (default is locales,console-common,openssh-server)
-h	display this help and exit

Make sure qemu for emulating armhf is available ('apt-get install qemu-user qemu-user-static binfmt-support' on debian-based systems).

write-image.sh

./write-image.sh IMAGEFILE DEVICE

Where IMAGEFILE is the image to write and DEVICE the devicefile of the SD-card to write to.