offgridNerd

ag123: I was able to get github.com/armbian/os/releases to load, ONCE... then never again. (Apparently github hates these shared PCs or something.) Torrents are probably a no-go... I don't think these shared library machines have a client, and they won't run any code I sneakernet in. going: I have a hardware RTC for the Pi (DS3231-based). I'll dd the Jammy CLI download I snagged earlier to a clean uSD and boot a Pi4B up to see what happens. IIRC it's easy to reconfigure the time service to function without NTP. Thanks to everybody for the feedback.

Hey all... Looking to put something a LOT more lightweight than RaspiOS (and not-modern-desktoppy at all, please) on my Pi4Bs. Found out about armbian from the Wikipedia page and downloaded the Jammy CLI image, but I can't get either gitlab or github to talk to me for downloading either of the recommended imagers; gitlab just gives me a blank page (no HTMl at all, per Firefox "view source") and github outright refuses connections. If it's important I do not have accounts on either system, and am loath to create same, although I could if necessary. I don't have Internet at home so I'm doing this from a Win10 PC at my public library; it's running the current Firefox (122.0). (My Pis will also live offline; I don't currently have a portable screen/mouse/KB to haul down here to do online installs, so I know I'll be stuck with only whatever's already in your images, for now anyway.) Can I just dd the image to a new/blank uSD card (Sandisk class 10, A1)? I'm fully capable of verifying the result, been admining UNIX systems since the 80s and Linux since 0.99pl6 or so... (I'll surely have more questions about making any resulting system work without internet connectivity, but first things first.)