{"id":1805,"date":"2026-01-29T19:01:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T19:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/editjournal.redakt.eu\/faxmodem\/?p=1805"},"modified":"2026-06-29T21:20:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T20:20:34","slug":"debian-debian-not-raspberry-pi-os-on-raspberry-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/editjournal.redakt.eu\/faxmodem\/blog\/development\/experimental\/debian-debian-not-raspberry-pi-os-on-raspberry-pi\/","title":{"rendered":"Debian (Debian, not Raspberry Pi OS) on Raspberry pi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Need a Raspberry Pi Debian image and can't (don't want to) use Raspberry Pi OS?<\/p>\n<p>Download an image from <a href=\"https:\/\/raspi.debian.net\/daily-images\/\">https:\/\/raspi.debian.net\/daily-images\/<\/a> and burn it onto an SD card.<\/p>\n<p>Boot into it. You will get clean minimal Debian.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note<\/strong>. If you first see the boot screen and then it goes to &quot;no signal&quot;, make sure your HDMI screen has enough power. Mine is a 7&quot; USB-powered screen which I plugged into Raspberry Pi, and while it worked initially, this later became a problem. Feeding it from a dedicated wall charger solved the issue.<\/p>\n<h2>Create user <code>pi<\/code><\/h2>\n<p>Log in as root without a password.<\/p>\n<pre><code>adduser pi<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>When it prompts for the new password, use <code>raspberry<\/code> to keep it consistent.<\/p>\n<p>(At this point you should be able to <code>ssh pi@your-rpi-ip<\/code>, then <code>su - root<\/code> and continue from your computer, where you can copy and paste commands into terminal, as opposed to typing them into RPI keyboard.)<\/p>\n<h1>Hostname<\/h1>\n<pre><code>echo 'rpi' > \/etc\/hostname\necho '127.0.0.1 rpi' >> \/etc\/hosts<\/code><\/pre>\n<h1>Sudo<\/h1>\n<p>Install sudo<\/p>\n<pre><code>apt-get update\napt-get install sudo<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Allow passwordless sudo for user <code>pi<\/code>:<\/p>\n<pre><code>echo 'pi ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL' > \/etc\/sudoers.d\/pi\nchmod 0440 \/etc\/sudoers.d\/pi<\/code><\/pre>\n<h1>Raspi-config<\/h1>\n<pre><code>apt-get install --no-install-recommends wget whiptail\nwget -O \/usr\/bin\/raspi-config https:\/\/raw.githubusercontent.com\/RPi-Distro\/raspi-config\/refs\/heads\/$(. \/etc\/os-release && echo \"$VERSION_CODENAME\")\/raspi-config && chmod +x \/usr\/bin\/raspi-config<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you want to use actual Debian (not Raspbian aka Raspberry Pi OS) on a Raspberry Pi? Here are the small adjustments you will need to make to an official Debian image to make it 1. boot and 2. contain some of the features you would expect from Raspbian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[811],"tags":[775,791],"class_list":["post-1805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experimental","tag-debian","tag-raspberry-pi","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/editjournal.redakt.eu\/faxmodem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/editjournal.redakt.eu\/faxmodem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/editjournal.redakt.eu\/faxmodem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/editjournal.redakt.eu\/faxmodem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/editjournal.redakt.eu\/faxmodem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1805"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/editjournal.redakt.eu\/faxmodem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1838,"href":"https:\/\/editjournal.redakt.eu\/faxmodem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805\/revisions\/1838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/editjournal.redakt.eu\/faxmodem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/editjournal.redakt.eu\/faxmodem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/editjournal.redakt.eu\/faxmodem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}