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diff --git a/content/post/debian-on-cubieboard1.en.blogc b/content/post/debian-on-cubieboard1.en.blogc new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bcc8ab9 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/post/debian-on-cubieboard1.en.blogc @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +TITLE: Installing Debian stable on Cubieboard1 +DATE: 2022-05-28 +TAGS: debian gnu linux software freesoftware foss sbc cubieboard +------------------------- +It was tricky and required an SD card (2Gb or larger, to install Debian to) +and a USB stick to store the installation image. + +* Download CD or DVD iso image for `armhf` from + [here](https://www.debian.org/CD/), currently `debian-11.3.0-armhf-DVD-1.iso` +* Copy iso file to a partition on USB stick (I used `MBR` + `ext4`). Burning it + as usual for (GNU/)Linux distros did not work +* On this [page](https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/debian-installer/) go + `other images` -> `armhf` -> `hd-media` -> `SD-card-images`, download + `firmware.Cubieboard.img.gz`, `partition.img.gz`, + `README.concatenateable_images`, follow the 1-step instruction in the README + and `cat` resulting .img file to SD card device (e.g. `/dev/sdg`, not + `/dev/sdg1`) +* Insert both SD card and USB stick into Cubieboard1 and boot - it'll start the + installer from SD card, which will find and use the .iso image on USB + partition. In it, choose "Use entire disk" at partitioning step and point to + SD card - this will overwrite it with new partitions +* Go through the installation wizard, remove USB stick, reboot. Out of the box, + Debian takes 1.6Gb of space + + $ uname -srm + Linux 5.10.0-14-armmp armv7l |