Re: Any suggestions for a Debian(based/like) OS for the Orange Pi zero2

[Marcin Juszkiewicz <marcin@juszkiewicz.com.pl>]

W dniu 10.10.2022 o 04:17, Rick Thomas pisze:

> Out of curiosity, I recently bought a couple of Orange Pi zero2 kits 
> because I wanted to see what could be done with such a really 
> inexpensive board.
>
> Now I'm looking for an OS.  The Orange Pi web site claims that it 
> supports Debian and Ubuntu among others, but I can't find any links 
> to where to download Debian or Ubuntu for this hardware.  So far the 
> best I've been able to do is a Bullseye-based version of Armbian. But
> I'd really like to have an un-modified Debian, if such a thing is 
> possible.
>
> Anybody got any suggestions?

Grab generic AArch64 installer image, dd it to usb stick and boot it 
from u-boot. Similar to how you would do it on x86-64 platform.

Arm SBC vendors love to write "our sbc supports distroX, distroY and 
distroZ" while it usually means "we have some random rootfs with out 
fugly kernel glued to it" which was loosely based on one of those distros.