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TITLE: Installing Debian stable on Cubieboard1
DATE: 2022-05-28
TAGS: debian gnu linux software freesoftware foss sbc cubieboard
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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
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