Talk:Raspberry Pi/Quick Install Guide

Keeping ntp-client command in install guide
The command "rc-update add ntp-client default" has been removed and replaced with a link to the relevant ntp config page, which is fair enough. However for the typical installed, especially a beginner, this command is pretty much essential. Otherwise you end up with the magical 1 January 1970. I know for 99% of the Gentoo RPi that I install will need this service. Any objections? Baldy (talk) 19:52, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

Moving "Cross building" to its own page
We now have a very comprehensive section on distcc and cross building, I think it needs its own page. Of course we can leave a description of it and link to the page. Baldy (talk) 19:52, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
 * People may already have gentoo running on there RPi and just looking to setup distcc
 * Not everyone will want to setup distcc, its not essential.

Root password reset
Just tried this howto, everything went fine except the root reset password by editing /etc/shadow, I fixed it by copying the shadow password for root from my laptop. mamac (talk) 23:23, 16 April 2013 (UTC +2)

naming of the network interface
Isn't eth0 still valid ?

Why not merge this page to Raspberry Pi
Both seem on the same topic, about the gentoo installation on raspberry pi. Why not merge them? AleiPhoenix (talk) 15:24, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

Installing gentoo headless
I installed gentoo on my raspberry pi without a display and input devices. I had to bring forward some steps before unmounting the SD: Should something like this be added? Should it be under notes or an extra point? jo77ah 14:40 13 July 2015 (UTC +2)
 * Add net.eth0 to default runlevel
 * Add sshd to default runlevel
 * set root password

Raspberry Pi 2 B Changes
With regard to Raspberry Pi 2 B there are some changes that should be put into the documentation, some of them related only to RPi2B and some also affect current installation:
 * it is Cortex-A7 which is arm7a arch
 * raspberrypi/firmware/boot now contains kernel.img and kernel7.img (idk if kernel7.img is picked up automatically or it must be specified in config.txt, i did not test that)
 * raspberrypi/modules now contains two directories, at this moment these are 4.1.15+ and 4.1.15-v7+
 * overclocking information is missing for armv7 (good information can be found for example in this article and the discussion below: http://haydenjames.io/raspberry-pi-2-overclock/)

New OpenSSH And Remote root Login Problem
With new OpenSSH one of the default configuration parameters prevents being able to log in as root to the box: PermitRootLogin prohibit-password It should be changed to "yes" instead, at least for the first remote root login.

Using force_turbo=1 Might Void Warranty
According to this article http://haydenjames.io/raspberry-pi-2-overclock/ using force_turbo=1 might void warranty. In the discussion there is written that it voids the warranty when combined with overclocking.

Splitting Memory
It should mention that for graphical environments gpu_mem should be higher (on RPi2B 256+?) and on headless it can go down to 16.