My PINE64+ 1GB has arrived and, of course, I’m already playing around with it.
First of all I needed a bootable ubuntu image so I went on the official forum and checked if there was something ready to be used.
Fortunately there are a bunch of good guys there that make good things happen. One of these guys is longsleep, the only user who released a fully working ubuntu 16.04 image so far and many thanks goes to him for his work.
These are the steps you need to follow in order to install ubuntu 16.06 xenial on your PINE64 using a mac computer:
- Download the latest image file from here (versions might vary with the time)
- Extract the .img file
- Flash the .img file into the SD card using the following commands:
*Assuming that your SD card is mounted under /dev/disk2 (otherwise change the number 2 with the appropriate of your system)
# diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2 # sudo dd if=/path_to_your_file/xenial-pine64-bspkernel-*.img of=/dev/rdisk2 bs=32m
The last command will take few minutes to complete so be patient
- Unmount the SD from your mac
- Insert the SD on your PINE64 and power it up
- Wait for ubuntu to boot
- Login using the following credentials:
# username: ubuntu # password: ubuntu
- Change the credential with a more secure one
- Enjoy your PINE64 with the latest ubuntu version
Kudos to the fantastic PINE64’s team who kindly decided to send me a board free of charge in order to test it and document what I will run on top of it with the aim of supporting its community. Keep the good work up!
Stay tuned for more exciting how-to articles!
** Thanks to Lars Hansen for adding some details on how to flash an img file from a Windows computer.
- Download Win32 DiskImager
- Extract the .img from the .xz file using 7zip
- Write the image to the SD card using DiskImager.
- Insert SD card into Pine64, and boot up.