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RPI5 OS Switch + Tiny_Jarvis easier to put in place

  • Worst day in my life. Tried to flash a Raspberry Pi OS Lite (64-bit) on the raspberry pi 5 (which btw has an NVMe SSD), and it did NOT go well:
    • First flash using the Imager: didn’t work, nothing happened, the Pi started speaking in freaking morse code
    • Spent an hour trying to decode that morse code according to documentation, thought it was an EEPROM bootloader issue, made a diagnostic card, made a factory reset card, nope.
    • Realized I could plug it through HDMI to my projector; did that: it was asking me for a username.
    • Didn’t have a USB keyboard so couldn’t type it in. Almost threw the Pi out of the window cos I configured all that in the fricking Imager.
    • Realized I was using the Imager from Flathub and not rpi-imager
    • Retried the whole thing with that Imager: still didn’t work.
    • Spent two hours doing the same thing over and over: flashing the card with the Imager, going into the files, editing user-data, cloud-init-ouput.log, etc… realized the Imager wasn’t writing the information in those files but others, booting it up into HDMI, checking the logs, managing to bypass username but not keyboard layout, etc… I EVEN TRIED LEGACY VERSIONS OF THE OS AND CREATING A wpa_supplicant.conf.
    • Atp I was going to crash out but then I checked my rpi-imager version (even though I had updated it) and turns out my laptop just couldn’t get the latest version : it was 1.8.0, not 2.1.0 (the latest one).
    • Downloaded the newest version, ran it, and it worked. I have officially lost faith in humanity.
  • Anyways I read my README.md and decided that it was getting way too complicated (the installation part) so I pasted that whole part into Kimi K3 and he made me a install.sh which is basically fire since you just run
chmod +x install.sh
./install.sh

and the whole system-wide-packages-and-dependencies are all installed in the right order, easily.

  • This is tested and proved (i did it with the newly flashed OS).
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