Orange Pi Manual
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2) Write Linux into TF card based on Linux platform?
a. Inserting the TF card into the computer, the capacity of the card must be
larger than the operating system image, usually requires 4GB or greater
capacity.
b. Formatting the TF card.
i Run
fdisk –l
order to make sure TF disk.
ii Run
umount /dev/sd
xx
to uninstall all partitions of TF Card.
iii Run
sudo fdisk /dev/sd
x
order. Use
o
command to delete all
partitions of TF Card, and then us
n
order to add a new partition, finally use
w
command to save and exit.
iv Run
sudo mkfs.vfat /dev/sd
x
1
command to format the TF card
partition set up last step to FAT32 form(according to your TF card disk to
replace
x
). Or you could skip this step since command in Linux will format
TF card automatic.
c. Download the OS image from download page
http://www.orangepi.org/`downloadresources
d. Unzip and right click the downloaded file, select "
Unzip file
"
e. Write image to TF card
i
Run
sudo fdisk –l
order to make sure the TF card disk
ii
make sure the image file
hash key
is the same as download page
mention(optional). It will output
sha1sum
[path]/[imagename]
,
which
should be same as the image paye
"SHA-1"
iii Run
umount /dev/sd
xx
order to uninstall all partitions in TF Card
iv Run
sudo dd bs=4M if=
[path]/[imagename]
of=/dev/sd
x
to write
down image file. Wait for the image to write. If it cannot work at 4M, then
replace a 1M which takes more time. You can run
sudo pkill –USR1 –n –x
dd
order to monitoring procedure.
3)
Use PhoenixCard tool to write Android image into TF card
It is impossible for Android image to be written into TF card by using
dd
command under Linux or using
Win32 Diskimager
under Windows. Here
