ALPHA2 FINAL

Everything works perfectly and essential networking tools are installed. I'll be adding a swap file next which requires expanding the 2 GB root partition, so this is the final "text/console/base" image. I may not (probably won't) release a beta test image as there's really no point, other than for my own backup purposes. I'm running low on Google Drive space anyways.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_8WsV7ZWJa1cmllR0xaM1BBUG8
260 MB md5sum b74dccfd410129647146b71479687d78

At this point you really need to add a new user and install sudo. Once sudo is setup properly you can edit /etc/shadow to disable root. Just copy and paste the first line from another Ubuntu install. You're then ready to do things the Ubuntu way. ;)

NEWBIE COMMAND LINE QUICK START

I updated the apt cache this morning at Starbucks by:

ifconfig wlan0 up
iwlist wlan0 scan
iwconfig wlan0 essid "Google Starbucks"
dhclient wlan0
links google.com

I could then click the "accept terms" button and apt update.

Piping long output to more or grep is an essential skill:

iwlist wlan0 scan | more
iwlist wlan0 scan | grep ESSID

If you don't know what command to use ask your computer:

apropos dhcp

If you don't know how to use a command read the built-in manual:

man iwconfig

And when finished using your Pi3 end your session properly:

shutdown -h now

SYSTEM INFO

If you cat /proc/version you'll see I cross-compiled the AArch64 kernel on my AMD64 Gentoo machine. If you cat /proc/modules you'll see both spi and i2c are enabled, so you're ready to go with Pi makerspace projects. And if you cat /proc/cpuinfo you'll see all four CPU cores are enabled with hardware math (fp) and cyclical redundancy error checking (crc32) for data transfers.

It may only cost $35 but that's more power than most servers had just 20 years ago!