May 2024 Bits#

May 23 - Another DietPi Install#

Setting Up WiFi on DietPi#

https://dietpi.com/docs/install/#2-flash-the-dietpi-image

It turns out, it’s pretty simple to set up WiFi on DietPi by only having access to the SD card.

Edit dietpi.txt in the boot partition of the SD card.

AUTO_SETUP_NET_WIFI_ENABLED=1
AUTO_SETUP_NET_WIFI_COUNTRY_CODE=US

Now edit dietpi-wifi.txt:

aWIFI_SSID[0]='TheRanch'
aWIFI_KEY[0]='xxx'
aWIFI_KEYMGR[0]='WPA-PSK'

Now reboot and login with root:dietpi

Additional Configuration#

Add a user:

useradd --create-home --user-group --shell /usr/bin/bash --groups sudo,tty,dialout,video,docker,input lavender

Notice that input is especially important here because when we launch firefox inside of ~/.xinitrc, we need permission to get inputs.

Remember to use dietpi-config to:

  • Change freqency of time sync to 3 - “Boot + Hourly” (Under advanced options)

  • Change hostname in Security Options

As I’ve done on previous installs:

sudo apt install -y make stow net-tools vim iputils-tracepath traceroute curl wget git netcat-openbsd tmux tree man-db file htop gpg-agent rsync pwgen less

5 inch RPi Display#

I need to get drivers for 5inch HDMI Display.

Although this is a DietPi install, using https://github.com/goodtft/LCD-show and sudo ./LCD5-show seems to work fine even with a few errors printed to the console.

Firefox Configuration#

Since we want to run Firefox without a desktop environment, we need to run a few commands.

wget https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/downloads/file/3938344/scroll_anywhere-9.2.xpi