Experimental features #

Here are some experimental features.

The content presented here is experimental. Please note that we may make destructive changes without prior notice, or it may not work due to bugs.

Writer 2.0.0-PoC #

New actcastos and Writer to be released in the future. Compared to the Writer 1.x series currently provided, it has the following advantages and disadvantages (disadvantages will be improved in the future).

• advantages
  • First boot time reduced from about 5 minutes to about 1 minute
  • Normal startup time shortened by about 10 seconds
  • Reduces storage space usage by at least 500MiB
• disadvantages
  • Difficult to set up
  • Advanced Settings not available
  • Setup environment supports Linux only

Setup method #

Here’s how to set up Writer 2.x.

Setup preparation #

Prepare a Linux terminal that can connect an SD card and set it up so that you can use the wpa_passphase command.

Setup procedure #

1. Download disk.img.xz and edit_image.sh from below
   • disk.img.xz
   • edit_image.sh
2. Please expand disk.img.xz using balena etcher etc. and write it to the SD card
3. After writing is completed, connect the SD card to the PC again and mount the first partition of the SD card to an appropriate directory.
   • Example: mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdcard
4. Execute edit_image.sh with the directory mounted earlier as an argument, and add various settings in the SD card
   • Example: ./edit_image.sh /mnt/sdcard/
5. Please unmount the SD card
   • Example: umount /mnt/sdcard
6. Insert SD card into Raspberry Pi and boot