How To Set Up DevuanPi

December 2, 2024

The Arm64 Raspberry Pi image It creeps me out how there’s a bunch of skulls in the term when it loads. I didn’t bother to do a checksum that’s how they get ya ;')

Its really minimal boots straight to a terminal really quick.

Step 1

# run the command:
menu-config
# use VGA font make it huge! utf-8, optimal, vga, 16X28

Step 2

# create a user named bweew with
useradd bweew

Step 3

# Install desktop
apt install xorg-xserver xinit i3

# add this to .profile:
vim .profile
#start i3 if tty shows up
if [ -z "$DISPLAY" ] && [ "$(tty)" = "/dev/tty1" ]; then
  startx
fi

# add this to .xinitrc
vim .xinitrc
exec i3

Step 5

sudo vim /etc/inittab
# on line 55
# change it to:
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty --autologin bweew --noclear 38400 tty1

Step 6

# edit .bashrc uncomment lines for bash highlighting