Where is the download for Headless edition of ARM Raspberry Pi 4?

[TimeTrvlr1911]

Good evening,

I’m looking to download the image for a headless install. I found Raspberry Pi editions here, but there are 4 different desktop versions and no headless version.

I could have sworn that about 8 or 9 months ago I did find a headless version, but I can’t find it now.

Thank you

[merlock]

Moving to ARM/Technical Assistance

[Jtyle6]

Well there is a app for it.

sudo pacman -S manjaro-arm-installer

Be very careful how you use it.

@Strit can we add this the Download page and the Gui app. please

[TimeTrvlr1911]

Thanks, but I’m currently on Linux Mint and don’t have Pacman. I’d prefer to just download the image like normal and use dd myself to burn it to my SD card.

[Jtyle6]

We’ll bugger. That’s a problem then. Sorry.

I was thinking that you might be running manjaro.

[Strit]

@Jtyle6

can we add this the Download page and the Gui app. please

Add what?
Information about the Manjaro ARM Installer is present in all the release forum posts.

[Jtyle6]

Sorry for not being specific with what I was meaning to say.

I was, meant to say there is no minimal install on the GUI version of the app.

[Strit]

@Jtyle6

GUI version of the app

There is no GUI version of the Manjaro ARM Installer.
If you are referring to the Manjaro ARM Flasher, all it does is present the images available for download and provide an easy way of downloading and flashing them. So it relies on the images we create.

And we haven’t created minimal versions for about all of 2020.
The reason for that is, that they didn’t get downloaded that often, compared to any of the other editions.
So I weighted the amount of effort needed to create, test and upload the images, change the website and forum post with it’s information each time, against the amount of downloads they actually got. And I concluded it was not worth the effort, when the minimal edition is available through the Manjaro ARM Installer and people can create their own minimal images, by using the Manjaro ARM tools.

The Manjaro ARM Installer, works on most distributions though. The dependencies are pretty distro agnostic, it’s basically regular linux utils, systemd-nspawn with copy-resolv support and binfmt config file with aarch64 support.

[Darksky]

Here is one I made a while back. Do a pacman -Syu and it should be current:

Manjaro-ARM-minimal-rpi4-20.06.img.xz

[pttrr]

Thanks man!
I just tried several hours to get arch working with 64 bit and usb boot on the pi4, and got no success.

Then tried your image and it’s instantly working. Also hardware transcoding is working with v4l2 on my emby server.
Also running the 5.10rc3 kernel.

The pi feels much faster then with Ubuntu/raspbian lite 64 bit.

Thanks for the release!

[anon80447176]

@pttrr If you’re starting from 20.06 you might be missing the fake-hwclock package. Can be installed with sudo pacman -S fake-hwclock. It’s not essential, but it popped up in another thread:

Additional ARM Packages

I would like to see fake-hwclock added to the Manjaro repos, it is in the AUR. Systemd reports “running since”, and without this the date remains constant which I think is the first time you boot on the image. This is really nice to have, maybe should be part of the base image for RPi.

[TimeTrvlr1911]

@Strit

The reason for that is, that they didn’t get downloaded that often, compared to any of the other editions.
So I weighted the amount of effort needed to create, test and upload the images, change the website and forum post with it’s information each time, against the amount of downloads they actually got. And I concluded it was not worth the effort, when the minimal edition is available through the Manjaro ARM Installer and people can create their own minimal images, by using the Manjaro ARM tools.

Strit thanks for the explanation. I appreciate all the work the ARM team does in making Manjaro available. I understand what you are saying that the headless (minimal) images are downloaded less. But some people desire the increased stability and reduced attack surface area of a minimal server configuration. There are currently no headless server options available for Manjaro, so people are driven to other distributions and Manjaro will never be competitive in this space. That is unfortunate because this is a wonderful distribution.

@Darksky

Here is one I made a while back. Do a pacman -Syu and it should be current:

Manjaro-ARM-minimal-rpi4-20.06.img.xz

Thank you.

[Strit]

@TimeTrvlr1911

There are currently no headless server options available for Manjaro

Not true.

As I explained in previous posts, you can install a headless minimal edition with the Manjaro ARM Installer. It’s supported just as well as the other editions. We just don’t create ready to use images for it. It’s not like we have removed the headless installs altogether.