Re: Debian Wheezy or Jessie install on Cubox-i4pro?
On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 02:04:22AM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote:
> 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 <merker@debian.org> 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
Just take a standard-format USB stick like it comes freshly out
of the package (i.e. the stick has a partition table and one
FAT32 partition), mount the partition, unpack the tarball on it
and download the ISO image to it. E.g. something along the
lines of
mount /dev/sdX1 /mnt
cd /mnt
wget http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-armhf/current/images/hd-media/hd-media.tar.gz
tar -zxvf hd-media.tar.gz
wget http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/jessie_di_rc2/armhf/iso-cd/debian-jessie-DI-rc2-armhf-CD-1.iso
cd
umount /mnt
Using a "superfloppy" style format, i.e. a filesystem that covers
the whole stick without a partition table, does not work, which
is why your "mkfs -t ext2 /dev/usbstick" would be wrong if
/dev/usbstick is the raw device and not the first partition.
> >> 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
That won't work - the image is a raw SD card image, not a
partition image. Don't make a partition table on the SD card,
just copy the image onto the raw card:
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
zcat MX6_Cubox-i.sdcard.img.gz > /dev/sdY
sync
where /dev/sdY is the raw SD card device.
> 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…)
Not yet fully, I am currently working on updating the installation-guide.
Btw, since today there is also another installation option that
involves only an SD card:
cd /tmp
wget http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/armhf/daily/netboot/SD-card-images/firmware.MX6_Cubox-i.img.gz
wget http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/armhf/daily/netboot/SD-card-images/partition.img.gz
zcat firmware.MX6_Cubox-i.img.gz partition.img.gz > /dev/sdZ
sync
with /dev/sdZ being the raw device for the SD card. This results
in an SD card that contains both u-boot and the netboot
installer, which loads everything else it needs over the network.
During the installation, you can simply repartition the SD card
and delete/overwrite any existing filesystem on it; i.e. you
simply replace the installer by the final installation. Once the
installer has started, it does not need anything from the SD card
anymore.
Regards,
Karsten
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