Orange Pi mini 2 User Manual
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writing.
Linux:
1. Insert your TF card into your computer. The size of TF should be
larger than the OS image size, generally 4GB or greater.
2. Format the TF card.
i. Run
fdisk –l /dev/sd
x
command to check the TF card node.
ii. Run
umount /dev/sd
xx
to unmount all the partitions of the TF card.
iii. Run
sudo fdisk /dev/sd
x
command to configure TF card. Use
o
command to delete all partition of TF card and use
n
command to
add one new partition. Use
w
command to save change.
iv. Run
sudo mkfs.vfat /dev/sd
x
1 command to format the new created
partition of TF card as FAT32.
(
x
should be replaced according to your TF card node)
You can also jump this step under Linux, because write image command
dd
under Linux will format the TF card automatically.
3. Download the OS image from the Downloads webpage.
i. Website:
http://www.orangepi.org/downloaded/download.html
4. Unzip the download file to get the OS image
(exclude android os image,
android os image need other burn mode)
.
i. Run
unzip
[downloaded filename]
command.
5. Write the image file to the TF card.
i. Run
fdisk –l /dev/sd
x
command to check the TF card node.
ii.
Verify if the hash key of the zip file is the same as shown on the downloads
page (optional).
sha1sum
[path]/[imagename]
This will print out a long hex number which should match the "SHA-1" line
for the TF image you have downloaded
iii. Run
umount /dev/sd
xx
to unmount all the partition of the the TF card
iv. Run
sudo dd bs=4M if=
[path]/[imagename]
of=/dev/sd
x
command to write image
file to TF card. Wait patiently to successfully complete writing. Please note that block
size set to 4M will work most of the time, if not, please try 1M, although 1M will take
considerably longer.You can use
sudo pkill –USR1 –n –x dd
command to check
progress
