bookmark_borderCurrent (10/2018) Tumbleweed on Raspberry Pi 1

Hallo,

I just had a little struggle getting the current tumbleweed to run on the original Raspberry Pi (first generation, though the revision with larger RAM).

Just in case this helps anybody: I did not have any luck with a fresh openSUSE Tumbleweed image of one of the current arm6 builds. Don’t know why.

Here’s what I did:
– Download a pretty old known-good OpenSUSE 13.1 built by Bernhard Wiedemann

http://www.zq1.de/bernhard/linux/opensuse/raspberrypi-opensuse-latest.img.xz

Unzip, dump it to SD Card

xz -d raspberrypi-opensuse-latest.img.xz
dd if=raspberrypi-opensuse-latest.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=8M

Boot up, change to text console (CTRL + ALT + F2)
Log In (root/linux)

Change Password (passwd)

nano /etc/zypp/repos.d/oss131.repo
Change baseurl line to
baseurl=http:/download.opensuse.org/ports/armv6hl/tumbleweed/repo/oss/
Save and get out (CTRL+X, Y)

#Resize partition and FS as this build won’t do:
# Adjust to more if your card is larger or to less if you need a more advanced partitioning scheme

parted resize 3 16G

resize2fs /dev/mmcblk0p3

zypper ref

zypper up gzip rpm

zypper dup –download in-advance

#(super conservative, get all needed packages first) – This is going to take quite a while

reboot, power cycle

Note that you will end up with a system booting into X11 login. You should probably change the default systemd target and maybe also get rid of some software. And you really don’t want a server with ssh password “linux”, so better don’t skip changing the PW