chip_install

Basic install script for Next Thing Co. C.H.I.P.

Disclaimer: This project is highly experimental and may completely mess up. The worst that can happen is you'll have to reflash your C.H.I.P.

Oh boy, look at this beauty!

Components

• Custom kernel build
  • Patched Linux 4.4.139
  • Patched RTL8723BS driver
  • Custom configuration
    • NetFilter modules
    • TCP syncookies
• systemd-networkd + systemd-resolved + wpa_supplicant instead of NetworkManager + avahi-daemon
• C.H.I.P. APT repository
• Oracle JDK APT repository
• Sysctl security parameters
• Shorewall rulesets
• Liquid Prompt
• Nginx + PHP-FPM setup
• MariaDB

Building kernel

Build the kernel in a Vagrant virtual machine as it's a pretty resource intensive process.

vagrant up
vagrant ssh
mkdir -p ~/chip_workdir && cd $_
sudo /vagrant/build.sh

In the build folder, there are:

• boot.tgz
  • vmlinuz
  • System.map
  • config
• lib.tgz
  • modules
  • firmware

Setup

Flash the C.H.I.P. with the latest headless Debian image from Next Thing Co. C.H.I.P.

Login through a serial terminal to the C.H.I.P.

sudo nmcli device wifi connect '(your wifi network name/SSID)' password '(your wifi password)' ifname wlan0

scp your out folder to the chip.

mkdir -p ~/chip_workdir && cd $_
wget https://github.com/VonJagdstrumel/chip_deploy/archive/master.tar.gz
tar xf master.tar.gz
cd chip_install-master

Edit setup_vars.sh according to your needs.

sudo ./setup.sh aptitude
sudo ./setup.sh kernel
sudo ./setup.sh system
sudo ./setup.sh network
sudo ./setup.sh ssh
sudo ./setup.sh firewall
sudo ./setup.sh blink
sudo ./setup.sh liquidprompt
sudo ./setup.sh nginx
sudo ./setup.sh php

Follow the instructions.

Todo

• Basic output to console
• Verbose output to logfiles
• Check if step has run once