I downloaded the pre-installed SD card image from
https://raspi.debian.net/tested-images/
I used the "2021.02.10 10 (Buster) 4" image. I
Here's what I did:
Downloaded the img.xz file and the sha256 file, and used the sha file to check
the integrity of the img file.
Uncompressed the img.xz and used dd to copy it to a 32GB micro-SD card. I
noticed that it left a lot of unused space on the card. (I'll come back to that
in a later report)
Powered off the RPi4; disconnected all the USB components (except keyboard and
mouse) that were attached to it; replaced the old SD card with the one I had
just created; and re-applied power. It booted and gave me a console login
prompt.
Logged in as "root" (As shipped, the root account has no password); changed the
root password to something slightly less insecure. Created a user account and
verified that I could use the user account to ssh to the RPi from another
computer. Thus verifying that the system had drivers for the RJ45 ethernet
port.
Ran "apt update && apt upgrade" which worked fine.
Noticed that the system as shipped is very "bare bones", so I was glad that apt
worked and I could install several utilities I would need later.
Since one of my goals is to run this as an NTP server, I was somewhat surprised
to note that "hwclock" didn't work (Missing driver, maybe?) :
root@pi:~# hwclock --verbose --show
hwclock from util-linux 2.33.1
System Time: 1613889592.600667
Trying to open: /dev/rtc0
Trying to open: /dev/rtc
Trying to open: /dev/misc/rtc
No usable clock interface found.
hwclock: Cannot access the Hardware Clock via any known method.
root@pi:~# ls -l /dev/rtc*
ls: cannot access '/dev/rtc*': No such file or directory
What package should I file a bug report against for this problem?
That's it for now. Next I'll try the "2021.02.10 11 (Bullseye) 4"
image.
Enjoy!
Rick
