Revisiting this topic again. :-(
I’m wondering if I might have the energy and concentration required to get a (local, on LAN) Raspberry Pi B+ going. The new model, with faster WLAN NIC and somewhat faster (wired) Ethernet which now approaches a miserable 300Mbps.
I asked about this before, but didn’t get very far. But now I’m thinking once more about finding someone to help me. Being in bed, I can’t get say the ‘Starter Kit’ from Pi Hut going as it requires a monitor and keyboard and obviously I can’t do that stuff. So to recap, what I would need is someone to help get me started by getting an o/s set up so that it will permit login, with say ssh or telnet, over the LAN, immediately from boot, with no keyboard mouse or display.
I would really want a 64-bit o/s an AAarch64 build of some sort, because I want to learn AArch64 asm, not the horrible old 32-bit instruction set. I don’t know if this is possible.
I need to get an SD card for it somehow and the Pi Hut starter kit comes with a card that must work although it is rather disappointingly piddly at 16MB, but I suppose that will have to do.
Ideally if I could find the right dealer they would install an o/s properly for me so it would just work, but I wouldn’t know where to begin. Pi Hut doesn’t seem to have any kind of cuddly customer service, they ship boxes, as far as I can see. Does anyone have any ideas?
Failing that, if I do find some volunteer to help me, I need to ship the machine to them and then get it shipped back.
One further problem occurs to me: what about assigning IP addresses to the Pi?
If I can find a helper what IP addresses will the Pi have on their network, and what will then happen when it is relocated to my LAN? For IPv6, I want the machine to do zeroconfig and just pick up a prefix from the router. For IPv4 I want the machine to either be a DHCP client or set IPv4 addresses for the NICs statically at my choice of fixed, routable (global) IPv4 addresses, which is going to be extremely awkward for my helper unless perhaps they set everything up and then changed it at the last minute. But that seems like way too much trouble, and being a DHCP client for IPv4 has to be the sane choice and also the safe one, less chance of it simply breaking when it arrives here.
Any thoughts?