Raspbian Wheezy armhf Raspberry Pi minimal image

After the Debian Wheezy armel image I made a new one based on Raspbian armhf. This one is compiled with hard float support, so basically floating point operations are MUCH faster because they are done in hardware instead of software emulation

Features include:

A minimal Raspbian Wheezy installation (similar to a netinstall)

Raspbian Wheezy installation (similar to a netinstall) Hard Float binaries : floating point operations are done in hardware instead of software emulation, that means higher performances

: floating point operations are done in hardware instead of software emulation, that means Disabled incremental updates, means apt-get update is much faster

Workaround for a kernel bug which hangs the Raspberry Pi under heavy network/disk loads

3.6.11+ hardfp kernel with latest raspberry pi patches

Latest version of the firmwares

Fits 1GB SD cards

A very tiny 118MB image : even with a 2GB SD there is a lot of free space

: even with a 2GB SD there is of free space ssh starts by default

The clock is automatically updated using ntp

IPv6 support

Just 14MB of ram usage after the boot

Here is the link to download my custom image:

http://files2.linuxsystems.it/raspbian_wheezy_20140726.img.7z – London, UK

Checksum MD5: 1be9af7fcec38c7238229edf1c5cdb3c

Mirrors:

7zip: md5sum(1be9af7fcec38c7238229edf1c5cdb3c) – File size: 144MB

http://mirrors.node1.hadrill.org.uk/darkbasic/raspbian_wheezy_20140726.img.7z – Amsterdam, Netherlands (1)

https://debianer.puppis.uberspace.de/files/RaspberryPi/raspbian_wheezy_hardfp_20140726.img.7z – Frankfurt, Germany

You will have to extract the image with p7zip:

7za x raspbian_wheezy_20130923.img.7z

Then flash it to your SD with dd:

dd bs=1M if=raspbian_wheezy_20130923.img of=/dev/sdX

Finally, if you have an sd larger than 1GB, grow the partition with gparted (first move the swap partition at the end).

The root password is raspberry.

You will have to reconfigure your timezone after the first boot:

dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

The keyboard layout:

dpkg-reconfigure console-data

And the localization:

dpkg-reconfigure locales

It’s done, I hope you will enjoy it.