Pi(rate) box on Pi2B

Hello,

I've tried to install a Pi(rate) Box on my newly acquired RPi2B, but it doesn't boot at all.
Nothing, nada, just a black screen.

I see the sd card led flashing once right at the beginning but nothing else than a black screen after.

Did someone have a successful installation on a RPi2B ?



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 03/11/2015 12:05PM by inextremis.

Have you had any luck?

The SD Card image is for the RaspberryPi 1 only - not for RPi2
Both have different architecture, so that I have to prepare a new image for the RPi2

Sorry for that,

regards Matthias

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When will the image be out?

Thanks Matthias, no need to rush on that.

I'll continue playing with my MR3020 for now.

When I have some freetime to work focused on it. I'm currently VERY busy.. too busy, to be honest.

Any progress on creating a new image? I am not sure if this will work, but I am going to follow the manual install instructions and attempt to create a working image for the Raspberry Pi 2. I would really love to be able to bring my Rpi2 with me on trips. I use piratebox on a RpiB to wirelessly share files from an external hd to my ipad/iphones/laptop on the road.

Not on my side, I have no time- unfortunately

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Made an account just to post this:

I managed to get piratebox running successfully on a new Raspberry Pi 2 by following the manual install instructions. Pretty much just bought a Pi 2 kit from CanaKit, installed Raspbian from the NOOBS card, ran updates, installed necessary dependencies, and the Piratebox - Share Freely network popped up immediately. From there I got Kahera imageboard running (http://forum.piratebox.cc/read.php?7,14067) and then enabled minidlna on startup with "sudo update-rc.d minidlna defaults".

Seems to work fine.

Thanks for posting this and pointing out, that it is only the issue of CREATING the image, what is the reason why there is no image.
Technically it will work.

Where is the best place to send a RPi2 image, should I upload it as a torrent file and just place the link here?


Regards


Pace

@PACE put that bad boy up as a torrent and give us the mag link. Longtime lurker here, and I made an account to tell you this pace... So you know lol

No problem, I'm also creating a complete install document, so will run through this one more time today, check that everything is working ok and upload.


Regards,


Pace

Ok, im trying to get the image file created as a smaller file as its currently built on a 16G drive. Until then here are the installation instructions to roll your own.

This assumes that you have a supported WIFI card that supports AP Mode and a connection from your RPi2 to the internet.


Initial Raspberry Pi Setup

1) Enter the command sudo rasps-config to configure the system.

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pi@raspberrypi:~$ sudo raspi-config

2) Choose the following options

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1) Expand Filesystem
		2) (optional) At this point you may also want to choose option 2 Change User Password, 
		3) Internationalization Options, choose your settings as UTF-8
		8) Advance Options, A4 SSH (Enable)

Finish and allow the system to reboot,


Install Dependencies

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sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get -y install lighttpd
  sudo /etc/init.d/lighttpd stop
  sudo update-rc.d lighttpd remove
  sudo apt-get -y install dnsmasq 
  sudo /etc/init.d/dnsmasq  stop
  sudo update-rc.d dnsmasq remove 
  sudo apt-get -y  install hostapd
  sudo /etc/init.d/hostapd  stop
  sudo update-rc.d hostapd remove 
  sudo apt-get -y install iw
  sudo rm /bin/sh
  sudo ln /bin/bash /bin/sh
  sudo chmod a+rw /bin/sh

Install PirateBox

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wget  http://downloads.piratebox.de/piratebox-ws_current.tar.gz
  tar xzf piratebox-ws_current.tar.gz
  cd piratebox
  sudo mkdir -p  /opt
  sudo cp -rv  piratebox /opt
  cd /opt/piratebox
  sudo sed ';s:DROOPY_USE_USER="no":DROOPY_USE_USER="yes":'; -i  /opt/piratebox/conf/piratebox.conf
  sudo ln -s /opt/piratebox/init.d/piratebox /etc/init.d/piratebox
  sudo update-rc.d piratebox  defaults 
  sudo /etc/init.d/piratebox start

Get Imageboard

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sudo /opt/piratebox/bin/install_piratebox.sh /opt/piratebox/conf/piratebox.conf imageboard

Edit the config.pl file with vi, and edit the ADMIN_PASS and SECRET. Remove the # from the start of the line

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sudo vi /opt/piratebox/www/board/config.pl

# System config
# use constant ADMIN_PASS => ‘CHANGEME’; # Admin password. For fucks's sake, change this.
# use constant SECRET => ‘CHANGEME’; # Cryptographic secret. CHANGE THIS to something totally random, and long.

Activate Timesave Functionality

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sudo /opt/piratebox/bin/timesave.sh /opt/piratebox/conf/piratebox.conf install

Install Minidlna

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sudo apt-get install minidlna
sudo cp /etc/minidlna.conf /etc/minidlna.conf.bkp
sudo cp  /opt/piratebox/src/linux.example.minidlna.conf  /etc/minidlna.conf
sudo update-rc.d minidlna defaults
sudo service minidlna start

Edit Network Configuration

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sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces

(delete the contents of the file and paste in the following)

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auto lo
 
 iface lo inet loopback
 iface eth0 inet dhcp
 
 iface wlan0 inet manual
 ### disalbed for PirateBox
 #allow-hotplug wlan0
 #wpa-roam /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
 #iface default inet dhcp

(save and exit by pressing [Control]+x then press [Enter] to update the config file.

Reboot

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sudo reboot

Finally when you logon to the PirateBox, click on Forum and then click on Kareha.pl to activate.

Hi Pace, thank you for your work!

We've just updated the PirateBox on RPi DIY page with your instructions.

I have recently created an image for the raspberry Pi2, you will need a minimum of a 4Gig card.
Please test and provide feedback.

I had to resize the partition down from 16gig, but it seems to be running ok... make sure you expand the filesystem once you image your card... See the README file in the torrent.

Magnet link (open your torrent client and select add torrent from url)

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magnet:?xt=urn:btih:CC58CF489C209DF6DCC8D5B8F4CD3CCAE8DA9E90&dn=RPi2PirateBox.zip&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.istole.it%3a80%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3a80%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.publicbt.com%3a80%2fannounce

I won't be able to do the test until next week. Once it is done, I'll give you some feedback!

Hi Pace,

there is no seeder for this torrent online?

Regards
BlueSpider

It is uploading, it may be a little slow... Im staying in a hotel in China, so when I leave the room the connection turns off... it will be connected all through the night though....

Ok, it is hard to seed the first wave...
I won't shutdown my machine this weekend.

I added it to my local client as well. It would be great if you both can agree on one kind of distribution - raspbian or archlinux (while the archlinux image is usually much smaller)

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I think the Arch Linux Distro will be the way to go, I just thought it would be good to get something out there for people to try now on their raspberry Pi's, understand the configs and play around with it.

We will work together and to make a clean and easily accessible image under Arch.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/13/2015 04:24PM by Pace.

I have a torrent link in the developer forum which points to an archlinux for arm6.
It is only about 277 mb in size, so I would go with the archlinux path, too.

Pace,
I torrented your disk image but i am rather new to this and i have had some problems. first off, can this be used on the raspberry pi 2?
if so, could you give a bit more instruction on setting it up (not like flashing the chip but the otherstuff). finally, is the manual method compatible with the PI 2?

If you use the RPi2 image instead of the RPi1 once, you can adapt the manual setup to the RPi2 as well... and for any other board

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wait so is the RPI2 image the one pace put up? and so do we just flash that and then run it or do we use the manual set up steps with the disk image? Sorry im just bit confused when it comes to the manual instructions. Are they for use with a fresh raspbian wheezy install or for the image?

the manual steps are for a fresh rasbian wheezy

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Okay, well i just went through all of them exactly as pace said above then i did a reboot. The pi is connected to power, a WiFi adapter and Ethernet (i have been using putty to control it). now that it is rebooted is it working? do i disconnect the Ethernet? does the piratebox still need a start command or is it started with powerup?

Sorry for all the Questions. Im just super eager to see this work. i think what the pirate box community really needs is a tutorial from start to finish. maybe even a video. i understand you are busy but i really appreciate your input and help

Okay, after many tutorials (one was in french but quite good.) i am yet to make the image or the manual install work with the RPI2. my question is this: has anyone truly made it work? Admins? Any luck?