DietPi

• The locales and keyboard setting are not set to en_US.UTF-8
  • Make this change and select the correct keyboard layout
• Once connected to the internet DietPi will update

Install the packages you want for general use

• sudo apt install vim ufw fail2ban unattended-upgrades tor

Configure External SSD for the blockchain

sudo fdisk -l # identify your drive sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdX # replace X with your drive letter sudo mkdir /mnt/blockchain sudo mount /dev/sdX /mnt/blockchain

Configure tor

1. vim /etc/tor
2. Uncomment and make changes to lines
   • HiddenServiceDir /var/lib/tor/monero-service/
   • HiddenServicePort 18081 127.0.0.1::18081
3. sudo systemctl restart tor@default
4. sudo systemctl status tor@default

Install and Configure Monero

1. Get the architecture of your cpu
   • uname -m
   • My raspi5 is on ARMv8
2. Download Monero CLI
   • Get the correct download link from the monero downloads page
   • `wget https://downloads.getmonero.org/cli/https://downloads.getmonero.org/cli/linuxarm8
3. Extract the archive
   • tar -xvf monero-linuxarm8
4. Make configuration change
   • rename the file to something nicer using mv
   • vim
   • Uncomment lines no-igd=1 and restricted-rpc=1
5. Get your onion address
   • sudo cat /var/lib/tor/monero-service/hostname
6. Move into the extracted file and run the daemon