wrolpi-help/docs/getting-started.md

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Getting Started

For hardware recommendations, see Recommended Hardware.

Finish WROLPi Installation

To finish your WROLPi installation follow these steps:

  1. Modify fstab to mount your external drive. In the example below, /dev/sda1 will be mounted to /media/wrolpi
    1. echo '/dev/sda1 /media/wrolpi auto defaults,nofail 0 0' | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab
  2. Finish the installation with the repair script: sudo bash /opt/wrolpi/repair.sh
  3. Reboot: sudo reboot
  4. After reboot, browse to http://wrolpi.local or http://127.0.0.1 on the WROLPi itself.
  5. Refresh your files

Creating a new WROLPi

Raspberry Pi

The following instructions are the steps necessary to create a new WROLPi, either as a backup, or to restore your WROLPi on a new Raspberry Pi.

Image an SD Card on Linux

  1. Plug in your SD card, find its device path with: sudo blkid
  2. Extract and copy the WROLPi image to your drive (/dev/sdb in this example):
    • xzcat WROLPi-v0.10-aarch64-desktop.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdb status=progress

Image an SD Card on Windows

  1. Copy the WROLPi image to your micro SD card using Balena Etcher

First Boot

  1. Unplug your Raspberry Pi
  2. Insert the micro SD card from step 2 into your Raspberry Pi
  3. Connect any peripherals to your Raspberry Pi, then turn it on.
  4. Login as the pi user with the password wrolpi
  5. Launch the Terminal application
    1. Change your password with: passwd
    2. Modify fstab to mount your external drive to /media/wrolpi
      • echo '/dev/sda1 /media/wrolpi auto defaults,nofail 0 0' | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab
    3. Finish the installation with the repair script:
      • sudo bash /opt/wrolpi/repair.sh
    4. Reboot: sudo reboot

Debian

The following instructions are the steps necessary to create a new WROLPi, either as a backup, or to restore your WROLPi on a new Debian computer.

  1. Copy the Debian WROLPi ISO to a thumb-drive.
  2. Insert the thumb-drive into the laptop, boot to the thumb-drive.
    1. Select Start Installer
    2. Install Debian 12.
  3. Unplug the thumb-drive after the installation has completed
  4. Login as the user you created during installation.
  5. Switch to the root user: su -
  6. Finish the installation with the repair script: sudo bash /opt/wrolpi/repair.sh
  7. Reboot: sudo reboot
  8. Join the Hotspot or browse to http://wrolpi.local or the IP address of your WROLPi!
  9. Refresh your files