Hi Karsten, As I get ready to follow this procedure on my new Cubox, I realize that some of the description is not completely clear to me…
Please take a look at the interpretations below and tell me if I’m confused… Thanks > On Apr 2, 2015, at 6:12 AM, Karsten Merker <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 03:11:06AM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: >>> >>> What do I need to do to get up-to-date Wheezy (or failing that, >>> Jessie) installed on my brand-new Cubox-i4pro? The download >>> from Solid-run is now 9 months old. >> >> I do not have a Cubox-i4pro, but in theory the following >> instructions (which assume a serial console on the "service >> port") should result in a working Jessie install: >> >> a) Unpack the tarball at >> >> >> http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-armhf/current/images/hd-media/hd-media.tar.gz >> >> onto a FAT16/FAT32/ext2/ext3/ext4-formatted USB stick So — my interpretation of this translates into the following shell commands: cd /tmp wget http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-armhf/current/images/hd-media/hd-media.tar.gz mkfs -t ext2 /dev/usbstick mkdir /tmp/hdmedia mount -v /dev/usbstick /tmp/hdmedia cd /tmp/hdmedia tar xpvf /tmp/hdmedia.tar.gz >> and copy the CD ISO image from >> >> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/jessie_di_rc2/armhf/iso-cd/debian-jessie-DI-rc2-armhf-CD-1.iso >> onto the USB stick as well. cd /tmp/hdmedia wget http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/jessie_di_rc2/armhf/iso-cd/debian-jessie-DI-rc2-armhf-CD-1.iso cd ~ umount -v /tmp/hdmedia >> >> b) create a Micro-SD card with u-boot for the Cubox-i4pro by >> writing the image at >> >> http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-armhf/current/images/u-boot/MX6_Cubox-i/MX6_Cubox-i.sdcard.img.gz >> to it. fdisk /dev/uSDcard u # change units to sectors o # create a virgin DOS partition table n # create a partition p # make it a primary partition # default start # default end p # make sure you’ve got it right # should see first partition starting at sector 32 and ending at the size of the uSDcard w # write the new partition table cd /tmp wget http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-armhf/current/images/u-boot/MX6_Cubox-i/MX6_Cubox-i.sdcard.img.gz gunzip MX6_Cubox-i.sdcard.img.gz dd if=MX6_Cubox-i.sdcard.img of=/dev/uSDcard1 # write the raw image to the first partition >> >> (Caution: this wipes any previous contents on the card) Understood. I’m using a brand new uSD card. Did I get it right? Thanks! Rick PS: Is this procedure described anywhere in the release documentation? (I’d be happy to RTFM if I could figure out what FM I should R…) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
