Raspbian64

An out of the box Raspberry Pi Raspbian distro with a 64bit chroot with docker.

Where to get it?

Official mirror is here

Nightly builds are available here (currently built on demand)

How to use it?

1. Unzip the image and install it to an SD card like any other Raspberry Pi image
2. Configure your WiFi by editing raspbian64-wpa-supplicant.txt at the root of the flashed card when using it like a flash drive
3. Boot the Pi from the SD card
4. Hostname is rasbian64 (not raspberrypi as usual)

Requirements

• Raspberry Pi 3B+, 4B
• 2A power supply

Features

• Chroot with Debian Buster on 64bit aarch with all the 64bit settings enabled
• Tools to configure the network via text files /boot

Developing

Requirements

1. You need to build this distro with a Raspberrypi with the 64bit kernel mode enabled, so it can run both armf and aarch64.
2. CustomPiOS using the Docker build method
3. root privileges for chroot
4. Bash

Building Raspbian64 Variants

Rasbian64 supports building variants, which are builds with changes from the main release build. An example and other variants are available in the folder src/variants/example.

To build a variant use:

sudo bash -x ./build_dist [Variant]

Usage

1. If needed, override existing config settings by creating a new file src/config.local. You can override all settings found in src/config. If you need to override the path to the Raspbian image to use for building Raspbian64, override the path to be used in ZIP_IMG. By default, the most recent file matching *-raspbian.zip found in src/image will be used.
2. Run src/build_dist as root.
3. The final image will be created in src/workspace

Code contribution would be appreciated!