{"id":375,"date":"2018-10-27T13:00:22","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T12:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chewett.co.uk\/blog\/?p=375"},"modified":"2018-10-27T23:27:50","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T22:27:50","slug":"setting-up-the-ci20-for-the-cluster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chewett.co.uk\/blog\/375\/setting-up-the-ci20-for-the-cluster\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting up the CI20 for the cluster"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This post talks about the steps I have followed to set up my Creator CI20 for the Raspberry Pi Cluster.<\/p>\n

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Burning Debian to the onboard NAND and configuring it<\/h2>\n

To run the CI20 on the Raspberry Pi Cluster I am going to write Debian 8 to the NAND storage. First the image must be downloaded, this can be found on ELinux<\/a>. Once the image has downloaded it will need to be burned to a SD card.<\/p>\n

This follows the same steps as burning a Raspbian Image for a Raspberry Pi detailed on my previous blog post<\/a>. Additional details for the Creator CI20 have been noted in the CI20 Dev zone on ELinux<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Once the image has been burned we need to copy this to the NAND storage of the Creator board. Once the Creator CI20 has been turned off, set the boot_sel jumper to 2,3 Boot SD. This will tell it to boot the SD card.<\/p>\n

Once you have inserted the SD card turn on the Creator and the red light will switch on. The light will change to blue while the NAND storage is being written to, and change back to red once finished.<\/p>\n

When this is done you just need to turn off the Creator,\u00a0swap the boot_sel switch back to Boot NAND and turn it back on. Debian will then boot as normal and you will be able to use the Creator.<\/p>\n

Once Debian has been installed<\/h2>\n

Once Debian has been installed it will have been set up with the default username (ci20) and password (ci20).<\/p>\n

You will want to SSH into the creator CI20 (or plug it into a screen and open a terminal) and change the password to start with.<\/p>\n

This can be done with the ci20 user with the command passwd<\/code>.\u00a0The next thing you will want to do is update the installed packages. This should ensure that the Creator is up to date. This can be performed with the following commands.<\/p>\n

sudo apt-get update\r\nsudo apt-get upgrade<\/pre>\n
Running\u00a0apt-get update<\/code>\u00a0will update the package list. This will then allow running\u00a0apt-get upgrade<\/code>\u00a0to install new packages.<\/p>\n
Installing packages and setting up user accounts<\/h2>\n
Now I have the Creator updated and ready to run headless I will install a couple more programs.<\/p>\n
Personally, to run a headless Debian install I always install at least the below programs using the command:<\/p>\n
sudo apt-get install vim htop byobu screen<\/pre>\n