Guys, I see the suggestions to the right while i’m typing this. Great feature :slight_smile: I clicked them all but non of them answers my question I want to install Ipfire on an orange pi 5 but i have no monitor and keyboard to begin with. Is there a headless ssh installation option? Thanks

And after Iit’s configured, can i use SSH? Or a web admin? Maybe i have a com USB laying around. You guys really need to fix this. There’s a marked opportunity for firewalls on arm

Installation of an OS on a HW board means, you have to use the basic user interface. Other interfaces are defined and configured by the installation. The basic interfaces are serial, low demands and well developed over many years keyboard/video/mouse, well known through the ‘standard’ desktop systems

Well, you could make a basic boot shell which loads all the nework drivers and AFTER that start the installation manually with a command. :slight_smile: Like raspbian-install or armbian-install do I realy hope to have an option to install the system on nvme AND the bootloader on spi flash. otherwise i have to skip you guys. I’m sorry

raspbian-install or armbian-install do a basic configuration of the OS image on the SD card. This is running on some other system with some other OS. To achieve this with IPFire, a bunch of installer programs would have to be supplied and maintained. The IPFire install process adapts more to the small dev team. The team can focus on development of the OS. Each system has some sort of console and boot loader ( supplied by the BIOS or board support package ). Using only these is an easy and reliable way to install the OS. But you are free to develop some tools to adapt the images for your needs. If the solution is safe and interesting for other users, you can upload it by the known ways for development ( to be found in the wiki ).

I have had a quick check on the following Firewalls pfsense opnsense ng firewall smoothwall endian None of them provide the ability to install via ssh. They only provide installing via video/keyboard or serial console.

[image] theo hiddema: You guys really need to fix this. There’s a marked opportunity for firewalls on arm that is a joke. [image] ARM SBC Support Discussion Single Board Computers Hello Everyone, I would like to contribute some of my time & skill at building images for arm devices. I have been reading about how IPfire is build and installed. I found out how it is build and also nightly build rootfs image which I can re-use over the device specific boot partition. I am not sure if the kernel is present or not. I will try it on VM and also flash it on a drive to see what all is present in the image. We can have detailed discussion on this thread. Hoping to get help from…

I would be nice if you can fix something so the IP fire os is installed on nvme drive and the boot loader on spi flash so we don’t need a crappy sd card.

Hi theo, You may want to take a look at FireMyPi on github. My brother and I built it to configure headless IPFire installations for our family network on the Raspberry Pi. It uses udev to automatically configure red0 and green0 based on the drivers used for the Pi onboard nic and common nic dongles so running setup is not needed. I’m not sure what chipset for the nic the Orange Pi’s use so you may need to tweak that part of the code for the Orange Pi, but we use it to build custom IPFire core images and burn them to micro sd to boot our Raspberry Pi’s which are all headless. [image] FireMyPi - Overview FireMyPi has one repository available. Follow their code on GitHub. Regards, Stephen

Thanks Stephen, i already saw your github page. But sadly, that’s too difficult for me to build. Or i missed the point :slight_smile: But this text: Refer to the FireMyPi Administrator’s Guide for complete instructions and guidance. Leads to a source code, not to a manual

[image] theo hiddema: But this text: Refer to the FireMyPi Administrator’s Guide for complete instructions and guidance. Leads to a source code, not to a manual It leads to HTML code of the manual. This is the manual. Maybe Stephen can show how to read it.:wink:

Headless install possible?

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hvacguy (Shaun HVAC) 30 December 2024 14:09 10

that is a joke.