Pixel on old pi/4GB card

Raspbian with Pixel is now too large to fix on an old 4GB SD Card with office and the programming tools.
However if you want to run a stripped down version of Pixel this is can be achived with the following steps:-

First install Jessie lite from here

Gain SSH access by adding a file in the root of boot named ssh

I then added support for multiple SSID’s for PI WiFi

/etc/network/interfaces

Code:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
        wpa-driver wext
        wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
        wireless-rate 54M

/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

Code:

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant

network={
        ssid="HOME"
        key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
        psk="PASSWORD"
}
network={
        ssid="WORK"
        key_mgmt=NONE
        wep_key0=PASSKEY
}

Install desktop environment

Pre-requisites

sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends xserver-xorg
sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends xinit

Install Pixel Desktop

sudo apt-get install raspberrypi-ui-mods
sudo apt-get install lxde-core lxappearance

Finish install with login manager

sudo apt-get install lightdm

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