General Notes on setting up a raspberry pi.

Basic Install:

• Download the minimal install of NOOBS from here
• Format the microSD card as FAT32, and put the files from the NOOBS download into the root directory (dont need to flash/etcher)
• Install the Base NOOBS Debian Image, without any of the recommended applications.

General Config

• Run my https://github.com/seanbreckenridge/bootstrap script
• sudo raspi-config to setup network; enable ssh (Interfacing Options)

Once everything is configured, sudo raspi-config > Boot Options > Desktop/CLI > Console Autologin, to run the pi as headless.

Mount a Hard Drive (automatic mounting):

Pretty much just have to put the correct line into /etc/fstab. See here for instructions.

If you want to put it at /home/data, instead of /mnt/something like that page describes:

sudo mkdir -p /home/data
sudo mount /dev/... /home/data
# to get UUID
sudo blkid
sudo nano /etc/fstab
UUID=<blkid> <location> <FSTYPE> defaults,nofail 0 0
e.g.
UUID=fbfb6131-f332461   /home/data  ext4 defaults,nofail 0 0

man fstab: the defaults option: rw, suid, dev, exec, auto, nouser, and async.

What the numbers at the end of the /etc/fstab mean

• First 0: dump shouldn’t make backups
• Second 0: fsck should not run a check on this drive