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Building the image from scratch

There is always a prebuilt image available for download and installation as described in the README. If you'd like to build the project yourself, there are several steps involved:

Downloading a generic Raspbian Lite image
Resizing the image and partition
Downloading and building the dependencies
Modifying the image configuration
Copying the project filesystem into the image

This procedure will only work on Ubuntu or Debian Linux. If you use MacOS or Windows, the best option is to install Linux in a virtual machine using something like VirtualBox.

It is recommended that you make a copy of image_setup_checklist.md and √ items off on the list as you go.

Preparation

Make sure your development environment is up to date:

    apt-get update
    apt-get dist-upgrade

Install qemu, qemu-user-static, and proot if not already installed:

    apt-get install qemu qemu-user-static qemu-user proot

Download the Raspbian image

Get the most recent version of Raspbian Jessie Lite from https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian_lite/images/:

   wget https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian_lite_latest

Verify the hash of the downloaded file and compare it to the hash on the server:

    shasum XXXX-XX-XX-raspbian-buster-lite.zip

Unpack it:

    unzip XXXX-XX-XX-raspbian-buster-lite.zip

Add space to the image

Use dd to add 2GB (2048 blocks of 1024k each). Using /dev/zero as the input file yields an unlimited number of "0x00" bytes.

    > dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024k count=2048 >> XXXX-XX-XX-raspbian-jessie-lite.img

Expand the root (second) partition using sfdisk:

	> echo ", +" | sfdisk -N 2 XXXX-XX-XX-raspbian-jessie-lite.img
	Checking that no-one is using this disk right now ... OK

	Disk 2017-11-29-raspbian-stretch-lite.img: 3.7 GiB, 4005560320 bytes, 7823360 sectors
	Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
	Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
	I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
	Disklabel type: dos
	Disk identifier: 0x37665771

	Old situation:

	Device                                Boot Start     End Sectors  Size Id Type
	2017-11-29-raspbian-stretch-lite.img1       8192   93236   85045 41.5M  c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
	2017-11-29-raspbian-stretch-lite.img2      94208 3629055 3534848  1.7G 83 Linux

	2017-11-29-raspbian-stretch-lite.img2:
	New situation:
	Disklabel type: dos
	Disk identifier: 0x37665771

	Device                                Boot Start     End Sectors  Size Id Type
	2017-11-29-raspbian-stretch-lite.img1       8192   93236   85045 41.5M  c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
	2017-11-29-raspbian-stretch-lite.img2      94208 7823359 7729152  3.7G 83 Linux

	The partition table has been altered.
	Syncing disks.

Edit shell_utils/basic_mount_image.sh to use the correct image path ($IMAGE)
Run the script

sudo shell_utils/basic_mount_image.sh

Resize the filesystem

Find the loop device of the root filesystem by running losetup, and it is the biggest one related to the image you mounted

sudo resize2fs /dev/loop<ID of the loop FS mounted as /mnt/rpi-root>

Installing the dependencies

Copy circlean_fs/root_partition/etc/systemd/system/rc-local.service into the equivalent location in the image.

    sudo cp circlean_fs/root_partition/etc/systemd/system/rc-local.service /mnt/rpi-root/etc/systemd/system/rc-local.service

Use proot to enter the equivalent of a chroot inside the mounted image.

    sudo proot -q qemu-arm -0 -r /mnt/rpi-root -b /mnt/rpi-boot:/boot -b /etc/resolv.conf:/etc/resolv.conf \
		-b /dev/:/dev/ -b /sys/:/sys/ -b /proc/:/proc/ -b /run/shm:/run/shm  /bin/bash

WARNING: if you have a permission error, make sure the /tmp directory is mointed with the exec flag.

Change your locales (remove "en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8", add "en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8"). The arrow keys move the cursor, spacebar selects/deselects a locale, tab moves the cursor to a different context, and enter lets you select "ok". This step might take some time, be patient:

    sed -i -e 's/# en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8/g' /etc/locale.gen
    sed -i -e 's/en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8/# en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8/g' /etc/locale.gen
    locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
    update-locale LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 LANG=en_US.UTF-8

In the image, make sure everything is up-to-date and remove old packages. You may have to run dist-upgrade and autoremove several times for everything to be installed, and a few raspbian-sys-mods related installs may fail - you can ignore them:

    apt-get update
    apt-get dist-upgrade
    apt-get autoremove

Install the linux dependencies (see CONTRIBUTING.md for more details). If you see warnings that from qemu about "Unsupported syscall: 384", you can ignore them. getrandom(2) was implemented in kernel 3.17 and apt will use /dev/urandom when it fails:

    apt-get install timidity git p7zip-full python3 python3-pip ntfs-3g libjpeg-dev libtiff-dev \
                    libwebp-dev tk-dev python3-tk liblcms2-dev tcl-dev libopenjp2-7 libxml2-dev \
                    libssl-dev libffi-dev libxslt1-dev exfat-fuse exfat-utils udisks2

Compile p7zip-rar from source. First, uncomment out the second line in /etc/apt/sources.list. Then:

    cd /home/pi
    mkdir rar && cd rar/
    apt-get update
    apt-get build-dep p7zip-rar
    apt-get source -b p7zip-rar
    dpkg -i ${path to p7zip-rar .deb file}

Install the Python dependencies for PyCIRCLean/filecheck.py. PyCIRCLean is 3.6+ compatible, so use pip -V to make sure you're using the right version of pip. You might have to edit your PATH variable or use pip3 to get the correct pip. You also might want to verify that these dependencies are current by checking in the PyCIRCLean git repo.

    cd /home/pi
    git clone https://github.com/CIRCL/PyCIRCLean.git
    cd PyCIRCLean
    pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Create a new user named "kitten":

    useradd -m kitten
    chown -R kitten:kitten /home/kitten

Enable rc.local, which ensures that the code in /etc/rc.local is run on boot. This is what triggers CIRCLean to run.

    systemctl enable rc-local.service

Turn off several networking related services. This speeds up boot and reduces the attack surface:

    systemctl disable networking.service
    systemctl disable bluetooth.service
    systemctl disable dhcpcd.service

Clean up:

    apt-get clean
    apt-get autoremove
    apt-get autoclean

Exit proot, and copy the files from your repository into the mounted image. Adding a -n flag will make rsync do a dry run instead of copying. See the rsync manpage for more details. Make sure to include the trailing slashes on the paths:

    exit
    sudo rsync -vri circlean_fs/boot/ /mnt/rpi-boot/
    sudo rsync -vri circlean_fs/root_partition/ /mnt/rpi-root/
    sudo cp -rf midi /mnt/rpi-root/opt/

If have an external hardware led and you're using the led functionality, copy the led files from diode_controller/ as well.
Unmount the image

sudo umount /mnt/rpi-boot /mnt/rpi-root

Write the image on a SD card

Plug your SD card into the computer. Then, find where it is mounted using lsblk or df:

    lsblk
    df -h

If it has been automatically mounted, unmount the SD card (use the path you found in the previous step):

    umount $PATH_TO_YOUR_SD

Write the image to the card. Newer versions of dd include a status option to monitor the copying process:

    sudo dd bs=4M if=$PATH_TO_YOUR_IMAGE of=$PATH_TO_YOUR_SD status=progress

Use fsck to verify the root partition:

    sudo fsck.vfat -f /dev/<partition>1
    sudo e2fsck -f /dev/<partition>2

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