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

[Andrew Hart <ahart42 gmail com>]

I tried subscribing to that list a week or so ago and, while the 
subscription message didn't bounce, I never got a reply. Given that the 
raspberryvi site seems to be a bit out of date, I wasn't really sure 
where to turn, so I figured I'd try asking here. In any case, using the 
information you provided, I have managed to subscribe to the list and 
will take this up there. Thanks a lot for that! I really appreciate it.

And thanks to the other people who responded too.

Cheers,
Andrew.

On 30/01/2021 17:53, Didier Spaier via orca-list wrote:
> Hi Andrew, I suggest you post to the mailing list raspberry-vi, as they
> indeed deal with this kind of issue.
>
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> Best regards,
> Didier
>
> 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 outdated raspberryvi.org Web site for publishing the GPIO pinouts in 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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