Getting Started

Prerequisites

• A screen
• A speaker system.
• An ethernet connection since wifi is currently not supported.
• A x86 compatible PC/Notebook. (Though there is some basic support for ARM - see: Hacking)
• An external storage device with at least 512MB. (e.g. a USB stick or SD card)

Install the pre-built image

There is a pre built image that you can simply write to an external storage devices as is. It should work out of the box for most systems since it includes all available kernel modules as well as xorg graphics drivers.

Linux

Open a Terminal. And use wget to download the latest image.

wget https://github.com/downloads/Metalab/ScreenInvader/screeninvader_20_09_2012.dd.xz

Change to root user and write the image to the storage device. You need xz-utils to decompress the image.

xzcat screeninvader_20_09_2012.dd.xz > /dev/sdX

Windows

• First, extract the .xz image, if you don't have any software to do so, you can use ''7-zip for Windows''.
• Download 7-zip from here.
• Install 7-zip
• The extracted image file will have the extension .dd, but the program we use to write the image doesn't associate with this extension, so right click the file and choose rename, and replace the .dd with .img
• Download the image writer from here, choosing the latest release of the binary (the first download link).
• Extract the contents of the .zip to a known directory.
• Run the .exe labled 'W32DiskImager.exe'
• Select the ScreenInvader Image file
• Select the drive letter/mount point for the storage device (please verify this is the correct device)
• Click 'Write' to begin writing the image to the storage device.

Boot it!

You just need to insert the storage device into the PC/Notebook you want to host the ScreenInvader and power it on though you might need to configure the boot order in the bios settings to boot from the storage device first.