Installation
There are two ways of installing Ethbian.
You can either use the already prepared sd card image or you can build the image yourself.
The already prepared image
link to the image can be found on the Home page
- download the image
- check the sha256 sum with the one provided on the
github page
- unzip the image
- write it to your sd card (balenaEtcher is a great tool for the job)
- insert the card in the RPi slot and plug in power supply
Once finished log in to your Pi via ssh and follow the
first steps instructions.
Creating your own image
that's how the already prepared image was built
-
download and
install Raspbian Buster Lite
-
log in as the pi user and execute:
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ethbian/ethbian/master/ethbian_install.sh && bash ethbian_install.sh
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restart the box
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register(free) for a MaxMind account and obtain a license key in order to download GeoLite2 database(free):
visit MaxMind page to register, download
the GeoLite2City db and save the file as /usr/local/lib/collectd/geolite_city.mmdb
Once finished log in to your Pi via ssh and follow the
first steps instructions.
Default Ethbian user/password:
pi/
ethbian
If you get stuck at some point, you may find detailed installation instructions helpful.