# Raspberry PI4 8Gb manual ,mainpage Downloads
**URL:** https://discuss.freedombox.org/t/raspberry-pi4-8gb-manual-mainpage-downloads/1568
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [May 18, 2021, 4:12pm UTC](https://discuss.freedombox.org/t/raspberry-pi4-8gb-manual-mainpage-downloads/1568 "2021-05-18T16:12:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@eboelens](https://discuss.freedombox.org/u/eboelens)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2021, 4:12pm UTC](https://discuss.freedombox.org/t/raspberry-pi4-8gb-manual-mainpage-downloads/1568/1 "2021-05-18T16:12:08Z")
I try to follow the manual for an installation on a RaspPI4 but when booting with sd card the PI starts with errors.
Shall I install a Debian on the raspPI4 first?
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### Author:  [@MikaelB](https://discuss.freedombox.org/u/MikaelB)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2021, 5:00pm UTC](https://discuss.freedombox.org/t/raspberry-pi4-8gb-manual-mainpage-downloads/1568/2 "2021-05-18T17:00:16Z")
Hello,
follow the instructions on the page:
[https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Hardware/RaspberryPi4B](https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Hardware/RaspberryPi4B)
Also needs a USB stick with the latest firmware. That worked for me 🙂
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### Author:  [@eboelens](https://discuss.freedombox.org/u/eboelens)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2021, 6:29pm UTC](https://discuss.freedombox.org/t/raspberry-pi4-8gb-manual-mainpage-downloads/1568/3 "2021-05-18T18:29:14Z")
Hello thanks for your reply
on the sdcard I flash the firmware
on a USB stick I flash the image
right ? or or vice versa ?
Then I put them at the same time both in de RpbPI4 ?
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### Author:  [@hanstux](https://discuss.freedombox.org/u/hanstux)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2021, 10:27pm UTC](https://discuss.freedombox.org/t/raspberry-pi4-8gb-manual-mainpage-downloads/1568/4 "2021-05-19T22:27:47Z")
No. You flash the firmware from SD to enable it to boot from USB. Then you flash the ROM to a USB and start from it, since USB 3.1 is faster, and the drives are more reliable than SD cards. But you could also run it from SD and extend the space to a USB storage, since freedom box uses btrfs. That’s what I did on the olimex lime2, since it doesn’t boot from USB or Sata to my knowledge.
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### Author:  [@blob](https://discuss.freedombox.org/u/blob)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2021, 12:44pm UTC](https://discuss.freedombox.org/t/raspberry-pi4-8gb-manual-mainpage-downloads/1568/5 "2021-05-23T12:44:38Z")
I got Debian 11 from here: [Daily auto-built images](https://raspi.debian.net/daily-images/)
and then installed Freedombox by:
sudo apt-get update
sudo DEBIAN\_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install freedombox
It was simple and easy and gave me the latest version!
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### Author:  [@eboelens](https://discuss.freedombox.org/u/eboelens)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2021, 2:26pm UTC](https://discuss.freedombox.org/t/raspberry-pi4-8gb-manual-mainpage-downloads/1568/6 "2021-05-23T14:26:25Z")
MikaelIB i dare not use this method , thanks anyway
i tried the method that blob uses with half succes.
@blob Freedombox is running but …
Installing Debian is standard with a passwordless login . I want a password but it doesn’t work.can’t set a root pasw (command not found) and
Cockpit won’t run
any idea ?
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### Author:  [@blob](https://discuss.freedombox.org/u/blob)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2021, 4:40pm UTC](https://discuss.freedombox.org/t/raspberry-pi4-8gb-manual-mainpage-downloads/1568/7 "2021-05-23T16:40:54Z")
> [@eboelens](#):
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> I want a password but it doesn’t work.can’t set a root pasw (command not found) and
> Cockpit won’t run
try with passwd, it will work, pasw won’t work
how Cockpit works is explained in System / Cockpit
[https://raspi.debian.net/](https://raspi.debian.net/)
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### Author:  [@eboelens](https://discuss.freedombox.org/u/eboelens)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2021, 11:32am UTC](https://discuss.freedombox.org/t/raspberry-pi4-8gb-manual-mainpage-downloads/1568/8 "2021-05-24T11:32:26Z")
Thanks password is set
ok for Cockpit (I will read it first)
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### Author:  [@eboelens](https://discuss.freedombox.org/u/eboelens)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2021, 6:47pm UTC](https://discuss.freedombox.org/t/raspberry-pi4-8gb-manual-mainpage-downloads/1568/9 "2021-05-24T18:47:21Z")
can I backup freedombox to an external drive, update debian and put freedombox back?
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### Author:  [@nupa](https://discuss.freedombox.org/u/nupa)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2021, 12:57am UTC](https://discuss.freedombox.org/t/raspberry-pi4-8gb-manual-mainpage-downloads/1568/10 "2021-05-31T00:57:06Z")
To get Cockpit working, I had to add a Static DNS rule to my router. “freedombox.local” wasn’t getting registered automatically, but I was able to set it up as a manual DNS rule, and that made Cockpit happy.