Re: [orca-list] [off-topic] Advice on setting up Raspberry Pi

[Didier Spaier <didier slint fr>]

Hi Andrew, I suggest you post to the mailing list raspberry-vi, as they
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Le 30/01/2021 à 21:29, Andrew Hart via orca-list a écrit :
> Hi folks,
>
> My question is a little off-topic, but I have some news related to Orca 
> to report that perhaps folks won't have heard of which will hopefully 
> make up for this.
>
> Recently I purchased a Raspberry Pi 4b thinking that'd I'd fire it up 
> and just ssh into. Ahha! The Raspberry Pi folks have turned off ssh 
> access by default, so that kind of stonkers me. I had initially planned 
> to play with it headlessly, my first project being to use it as a 
> replacement for an old  Linksys NSLU2 (running OpenWRT) I've been using 
> as a media streamer for a number of years now.
>
> Hunting around, it seems that in order to get ssh access, I would need 
> to build my own Raspberry OS image and given that I don't currently have 
> a Linux system, that's going to be problematic. The Windows LInux 
> subsystem won't help either because it's purely 64 bit and pi gen, the 
> official image builder, contains some component that apparently fails in 
> all 64-bit OS's at the moment.
>
> So, I grabbed a USB keyboard for the Pi and assembled it. I purchased 
> the Pi as part of a kit which came with everything needed to get 
> started. Assembly was straight forward, involving sticking heat sinks on 
> some chips, putting the board into the case  and hooking a fan up to the 
> appropriate pins on the GPIO header. Cudos to the rather outdated 
> raspberryvi.org Web site for publishing the GPIO pinouts in an 
> accessible form. The hardest part was finding out if I had managed to 
> correctly guess which IC's the heat sinks needed to be put on.
>
> Now, here's the news about Orca that made me think I might be able to 
> get it up and running without sighted assistance. In the latest release 
> of Raspian Buster (which came out in November or December), the Pi folks 
> have added a hotkey that can be pressed at any time, including during 
> first boot, that installs Orca and all of its dependencies and starts it 
> up. The hotkey is Alt+ctrl+Space.
>
> I hooked the Pi up to my HT, since that has my only television, and 
> fired it up. It looks like I put it all together properly as it starts 
> up without any hassles. Pointing Seeing AI at the TV screen, I can see 
> that Noobs has started and we get to the gotcha I hadn't thought about 
> before.
> The first thing Noobs is asking is which of three or maybe four OS's I 
> want to install. At this point, Raspberry OS is not yet running, so I 
> can't start Orca.
> The hotkey for getting ORCA up and running is only available in 
> Raspberry OS and I need to install the OS onto the SD card first. As 
> Homer Simpson says, "Doh!"
> However, I don't know how to interact with the on-screen menu or if 
> there is an item selected by default. Can anyone tell me how this screen 
> works?
>
> Or, am I making a meal out of this? Is there a simpler way to go about 
> getting a Raspberry Pi up and running if you can't see the screen? Any 
> advice would be gratefully received, though perhaps folks might write to 
> me off-list since this is somewhat off-topic for this list.
>
> Many thanks,
> Andrew.
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