Parallella Linaro Nano

How to Install Linaro nano 14.01 (minimal headless system)

Copied here from Shodruk's forum post.

Requirements

Ubuntu PC, SD Card, SD Card adapter, Parallella

On the PC's terminal:

Download the files

$ wget ftp://ftp.parallella.org/parallella/gen1/Parallella16_z7020wGPIO_131224.zip

$ wget http://releases.linaro.org/14.01/ubuntu/saucy-images/nano/linaro-saucy-nano-20140126-627.tar.gz

$ wget https://github.com/parallella/parallella-bin/blob/master/rel.14.02.06.tgz

Unzip the files

$ unzip Parallella16_z7020wGPIO_131224.zip

$ tar xzf rel.14.02.06.tgz

Determine the device name of the SD Card

$ sudo parted -l

In case of a 2GB SD Card:

Model: SD/MM Reader
Disk /dev/sdX: 2042MB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 49.3MB 48.2MB primary fat16
2 49.3MB 2042MB 1992MB primary ext4

"/dev/sdX" is the device name of the SD Card (e.g. sdb, sdc, sdd, sde, ... and, Don't partition HDD!!!)

Partition the SD Card

Unmount the SD Card if it was automounted, then,

$ sudo parted -a optimal /dev/sdX

(parted) print

If there are two partitions on the SD Card,

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 99.6MB 98.6MB primary fat16 lba
2 99.6MB 2042MB 1942MB primary

Delete all existing partition

(parted) rm 2
(parted) rm 1

Make new partitions

(parted) mkpart p fat32 2048s 100m
(parted) mkpart p ext2 100m -1m
(parted) q

Check the partition

$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdX

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdX1 2048 194559 96256 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sdX2 194560 3987455 1896448 83 Linux

Format the partition

$ sudo mkfs.vfat -n BOOT /dev/sdX1
$ sudo mkfs.ext4 -L rootfs /dev/sdX2

Extract rootfs

$ sudo mkdir /tmp/mnt1 /tmp/mnt2
$ sudo mount /dev/sdX2 /tmp/mnt1
$ sudo tar --strip-components=1 -C /tmp/mnt1 -xzpf linaro-saucy-nano-20140126-627.tar.gz
$ sudo sync
$ sudo umount /tmp/mnt1

Extract BOOT partition

$ sudo losetup -o 32256 /dev/loop0 Parallella16_z7020wGPIO_131220.img
$ sudo mount -o umask=000 -t vfat /dev/loop0 /tmp/mnt1
$ sudo mount -o umask=000 -t vfat /dev/sdX1 /tmp/mnt2
$ sudo cp -r /tmp/mnt1/* /tmp/mnt2/
$ sudo cp rel.14.02.06/* /tmp/mnt2/
$ sudo sync
$ sudo umount /tmp/mnt1
$ sudo losetup -d /dev/loop0
$ sudo umount /tmp/mnt2

Edit some configuration files

$ sudo mount /dev/sdX2 /tmp/mnt1
$ sudo nano /tmp/mnt1/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/00InstallRecommends

APT::Install-Recommends "false";

For extreme minimalist :D

Network configuration:

If your router's IP address is 192.168.0.1 and the Parallella's IP address is 192.168.0.2,

$ sudo nano /tmp/mnt1/etc/network/interfaces

source-directory /etc/network/interfaces.d

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
   address 192.168.0.2
   netmask 255.255.255.0
   gateway 192.168.0.1
   up sleep 3; mii-tool -F 1000baseT-FD

$ sudo nano /tmp/mnt1/etc/resolv.conf

nameserver 192.168.0.1

$ sudo sync
$ sudo umount /tmp/mnt1

• Insert the SD Card to the Parallella
• Connect Ethernet only
• Power-on
• Wait 30 seconds
• Connect HDMI, USB keyboard
• You'll see a root terminal
• Install openssh-server

On the Parallella:

# apt-get install openssh-server
# sync

Now you can login the Parallella from your PC. On the PC:

$ ssh linaro@192.168.0.2
password: linaro

Let's see how lightweight it is.

$ free

total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 992452 43696 948756 0 7512 13960
-/+ buffers/cache: 22224 970228
Swap: 0 0 0

Memory Consumption: Only 22MB !! :D

$ df

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 1833872 270072 1452596 16% /
none 99248 72 99176 1% /run
none 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock
none 496224 0 496224 0% /run/shm
none 102400 0 102400 0% /run/user

Disk Consumption: Only 270MB !!

$ ps axo pid,cmd,rss,vsz

PID CMD RSS VSZ
1 /sbin/init 1696 2756
2 [kthreadd] 0 0
3 [ksoftirqd/0] 0 0
4 [kworker/0:0] 0 0
5 [kworker/0:0H] 0 0
6 [kworker/u4:0] 0 0
7 [migration/0] 0 0
8 [rcu_preempt] 0 0
9 [rcu_bh] 0 0
10 [rcu_sched] 0 0
11 [migration/1] 0 0
12 [ksoftirqd/1] 0 0
13 [kworker/1:0] 0 0
14 [kworker/1:0H] 0 0
15 [khelper] 0 0
16 [kdevtmpfs] 0 0
17 [kworker/u4:1] 0 0
340 [writeback] 0 0
342 [bioset] 0 0
343 [kblockd] 0 0
361 [khubd] 0 0
384 [cfg80211] 0 0
468 [rpciod] 0 0
478 [khungtaskd] 0 0
483 [kswapd0] 0 0
484 [fsnotify_mark] 0 0
485 [nfsiod] 0 0
486 [crypto] 0 0
583 [.qspi] 0 0
627 [xemacps] 0 0
639 [aoe_tx0] 0 0
640 [aoe_ktio0] 0 0
654 [kpsmoused] 0 0
811 [mmcqd/0] 0 0
823 [binder] 0 0
849 [irq/39-] 0 0
898 [deferwq] 0 0
905 [kworker/1:1H] 0 0
906 [kworker/0:1H] 0 0
907 [kworker/1:1] 0 0
908 [jbd2/mmcblk0p2-] 0 0
909 [ext4-rsv-conver] 0 0
999 upstart-udev-bridge --daemo 720 1964
1006 /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd 1084 8712
1118 rsyslogd -c5 1400 30124
1439 upstart-socket-bridge --dae 420 1924
1441 upstart-file-bridge --daemo 764 2332
1517 /sbin/getty -8 38400 tty4 704 1796
1519 /sbin/getty -8 38400 tty5 704 1796
1529 /sbin/getty -8 38400 tty2 704 1796
1531 /sbin/getty -8 38400 tty3 704 1796
1534 /sbin/getty -8 38400 tty6 704 1796
1558 /usr/sbin/sshd -D 2080 5600
1563 cron 784 2324
1597 /bin/login -f 1256 3264
1613 -bash 1624 4280
3568 sshd: linaro [priv] 2708 8852
3591 sshd: linaro@pts/1 1432 8852
3594 -bash 1636 4272
4104 [kworker/0:2] 0 0
4269 /sbin/getty -n -l /bin/auto 684 1616
4272 ps axo pid,cmd,rss,vsz 840 3740

$ dpkg-query -Wf='${binary:Package}\n'

adduser
apt
apt-utils
base-files
base-passwd
bash
bsdutils
busybox-initramfs
console-setup
coreutils
cpio
cron
dash
debconf
debianutils
diffutils
dpkg
e2fslibs:armhf
e2fsprogs
file
findutils
gcc-4.8-base:armhf
gnupg
gpgv
grep
gzip
hostname
ifupdown
initramfs-tools
initramfs-tools-bin
initscripts
insserv
iproute
iproute2
iputils-ping
isc-dhcp-client
isc-dhcp-common
kbd
keyboard-configuration
klibc-utils
kmod
libacl1:armhf
libapt-inst1.5:armhf
libapt-pkg4.12:armhf
libattr1:armhf
libaudit-common
libaudit1:armhf
libblkid1:armhf
libbsd0:armhf
libbz2-1.0:armhf
libc-bin
libc6:armhf
libcap2:armhf
libck-connector0:armhf
libcomerr2:armhf
libdb5.1:armhf
libdbus-1-3:armhf
libdrm2:armhf
libedit2:armhf
libexpat1:armhf
libffi6:armhf
libfribidi0:armhf
libgcc1:armhf
libgcrypt11:armhf
libgnutls-openssl27:armhf
libgnutls26:armhf
libgpg-error0:armhf
libgssapi-krb5-2:armhf
libjson-c2:armhf
libjson0:armhf
libk5crypto3:armhf
libkeyutils1:armhf
libklibc
libkmod2:armhf
libkrb5-3:armhf
libkrb5support0:armhf
liblocale-gettext-perl
liblockfile-bin
liblockfile1:armhf
liblzma5:armhf
libmagic1:armhf
libmount1:armhf
libncurses5:armhf
libncursesw5:armhf
libnewt0.52:armhf
libnih-dbus1:armhf
libnih1:armhf
libp11-kit0:armhf
libpam-modules:armhf
libpam-modules-bin
libpam-runtime
libpam0g:armhf
libpcre3:armhf
libplymouth2:armhf
libpng12-0:armhf
libpopt0:armhf
libprocps0:armhf
libpython-stdlib:armhf
libpython2.7-minimal:armhf
libpython2.7-stdlib:armhf
libreadline6:armhf
libselinux1:armhf
libsemanage-common
libsemanage1:armhf
libsepol1:armhf
libslang2:armhf
libsqlite3-0:armhf
libss2:armhf
libssl1.0.0:armhf
libstdc++6:armhf
libtasn1-3:armhf
libtinfo5:armhf
libudev1:armhf
libusb-0.1-4:armhf
libustr-1.0-1:armhf
libuuid1:armhf
libwrap0:armhf
linaro-nano
linaro-overlay
linaro-overlay-minimal
locales
lockfile-progs
login
logrotate
lsb-base
makedev
mawk
mime-support
module-init-tools
mount
mountall
multiarch-support
ncurses-base
ncurses-bin
net-tools
netbase
netcat-openbsd
ntpdate
openssh-client
openssh-server
passwd
perl-base
plymouth
procps
python
python-minimal
python2.7
python2.7-minimal
readline-common
rsyslog
sed
sensible-utils
sudo
sysv-rc
sysvinit-utils
tar
tzdata
ubuntu-keyring
ucf
udev
upstart
util-linux
whiptail
xkb-data
zlib1g:armhf