PART A: Install Ubuntu Desktop Nightly Built By Armbian onto Orange Pi 3
1. Download Armbian Ubuntu Desktop for Orange Pi 3
We FIRST go visiting the website https://dl.armbian.com/orangepi3/nightly/ and click on the LAST link, for today May 12, 2019, a file named Armbian_5.86.190512_Orangepi3_Ubuntu_bionic_dev_5.1.0.7z will be automatically downloaded.
➜ ~ ssh root@192.168.1.101 root@192.168.1.101's password: You are required to change your password immediately (root enforced) ___ ____ _ _____ / _ \ _ __ __ _ _ __ __ _ ___ | _ \(_) |___ / | | | | '__/ _` | '_ \ / _` |/ _ \ | |_) | | |_ \ | |_| | | | (_| | | | | (_| | __/ | __/| | ___) | \___/|_| \__,_|_| |_|\__, |\___| |_| |_| |____/ |___/ Welcome to ARMBIAN 5.86.190512 nightly Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS 5.1.0-sunxi64 System load: 0.01 0.13 0.08 Up time: 5 min Memory usage: 4 % of 1997MB IP: 192.168.1.101 CPU temp: 40°C Usage of /: 3% of 29G Last login: Mon May 13 08:59:30 2019 from 192.168.1.11 Changing password for root. (current) UNIX password: Enter new UNIX password: Retype new UNIX password: You are using an Armbian nightly build meant only for developers to provide constructive feedback to improve build system, OS settings or user experience. If this does not apply to you, STOP NOW!. Especially don't use this image for daily work since things might not work as expected or at all and may break anytime with next update. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
This image is provided AS IS with NO WARRANTY and NO END USER SUPPORT!.
Creating a new user account. Press <Ctrl-C> to abort
Please provide a username (eg. your forename): Sky Trying to add user sky Adding user `sky' ... Adding new group `sky' (1000) ... Adding new user `sky' (1000) with group `sky' ... Creating home directory `/home/sky' ... Copying files from `/etc/skel' ... Enter new UNIX password: Retype new UNIX password: passwd: password updated successfully Changing the user information for sky Enter the new value, or press ENTER for the default Full Name []: Room Number []: Work Phone []: Home Phone []: Other []: Is the information correct? [Y/n] y
Dear sky, your account sky has been created and is sudo enabled. Please use this account for your daily work from now on.
root@orangepi3:~#
2. Kernel Doublechecking
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root@orangepi3:~# uname -r 5.1.0-sunxi64 root@orangepi3:~# uname -a Linux orangepi3 5.1.0-sunxi64 #5.86.190512 SMP Sun May 12 22:26:37 CEST 2019 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux root@orangepi3:~# lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS Release: 18.04 Codename: bionic
Hello, everybody. I’m now back in ShenZhen, China, and testing several types of Single Board Computers. I’ve got to say: Made In China is amazing. Banana Pi M3 is a SBC with AllWinner A83T ARM CPU, which is also of credit-card size. Some detailed features can be found on the open source technical supporter Sunxi. Please pay attention to the following key points:
PART A: Install Ubuntu Desktop Built By Armbian onto Banana Pi M3
1. Download Armbian Ubuntu Desktop for Banana Pi M3
We FIRST go visiting the website https://www.armbian.com/bananapi-m3/ and click Armbian Bionic icon, a file named Armbian_5.83_Bananapim3_Ubuntu_bionic_next_4.19.38_desktop will be automatically downloaded.
Files: 4 Size: 1946176594 Compressed: 441800089 ➜ operatingsystems ll Armbian_5.83_Bananapim3_Ubuntu_bionic_next_4.19.38_desktop total 1.9G -rw-rw-r-- 1 jiapei jiapei 1.9G Feb 10 22:50 Armbian_5.83_Bananapim3_Ubuntu_bionic_next_4.19.38_desktop.img -rw-rw-r-- 1 jiapei jiapei 833 Feb 10 22:50 Armbian_5.83_Bananapim3_Ubuntu_bionic_next_4.19.38_desktop.img.asc -rw-r--r-- 1 jiapei jiapei 19K Feb 10 22:50 armbian.txt -rw-rw-r-- 1 jiapei jiapei 129 Feb 10 22:50 sha256sum.sha
2. Install Armbian Ubuntu Desktop for Banana Pi M3
After the extracted image file is prepared, it’s the time to install the Armbian Ubuntu Desktop onto our TF card. We FIRST format the TF card:
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➜ ~ sudo umount /dev/mmcblk0p1 umount: /dev/mmcblk0p1: not mounted. ➜ ~ sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/mmcblk0 mke2fs 1.44.1 (24-Mar-2018) Found a gpt partition table in /dev/mmcblk0 Proceed anyway? (y,N) y Discarding device blocks: done Creating filesystem with 7579648 4k blocks and 1896832 inodes Filesystem UUID: 5c3be436-4e8c-43e4-ab21-6d5232420881 Superblock backups stored on blocks: 32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208, 4096000
Allocating group tables: done Writing inode tables: done Creating journal (32768 blocks): done Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done
Afterwards, use dd to install the downloaded Armbian Ubuntu Desktop image.
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➜ Armbian_5.83_Bananapim3_Ubuntu_bionic_next_4.19.38_desktop sudodd bs=4M if=Armbian_5.83_Bananapim3_Ubuntu_bionic_next_4.19.38_desktop.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 conv=fsync 464+0 records in 464+0 records out 1946157056 bytes (1.9 GB, 1.8 GiB) copied, 258.486 s, 7.5 MB/s
PART B: SSH Into Armbian, Update & Upgrade, Network Configuration, Locale Configuration
NOTE: Whenever you met some unsolvable issue after you boot into Armbian, please use the command armbianmonitor -U to log the issue.
1. SSH Into Banana Pi M3
We now unplug the TF card from the host and put it into the Banana Pi M3, Armbian Ubuntu Desktop boots successfully. The default username and password are respectively: root and 1234. In our case, Banana Pi M3 is connected to a network cable first, and it’s NOT hard for us to get the IP address of Banana Pi M3 by using command line nmap (Details can be checked via Google). After setting up a NEW user as well as password by following the previous blog Install Armbian Ubuntu Desktop onto Banana Pi Pro, you should be able to log into Banana Pi M3 with account root:
➜ ~ ssh root@192.168.1.80 The authenticity of host '192.168.1.80 (192.168.1.80)' can't be established. ECDSA key fingerprint is SHA256:xLRt0ppGzbutHHcE3JRyaKw9A0baub3MDAxFF9GNfdk. Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes Warning: Permanently added '192.168.1.80' (ECDSA) to the list of known hosts. root@192.168.1.80's password: ____ ____ _ __ __ _____ | __ ) __ _ _ __ __ _ _ __ __ _ | _ \(_) | \/ |___ / | _ \ / _` | '_ \ / _` | '_ \ / _` | | |_) | | | |\/| | |_ \ | |_) | (_| | | | | (_| | | | | (_| | | __/| | | | | |___) | |____/ \__,_|_| |_|\__,_|_| |_|\__,_| |_| |_| |_| |_|____/
Welcome to ARMBIAN 5.83 stable Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS 4.19.38-sunxi System load: 0.08 0.10 0.08 Up time: 33 min Memory usage: 12 % of 2013MB IP: 192.168.1.80 Usage of /: 6% of 29G
[ General system configuration (beta): armbian-config ]
Last login: Thu Apr 18 08:53:31 2019 from 192.168.1.21
root@bananapim3:~#
2. Kernel Doublechecking
Finally, we have the system and kernel doublechecked.
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root@bananapim3:~# uname -r 4.19.38-sunxi root@bananapim3:~# uname -a Linux bananapim3 4.19.38-sunxi #5.83 SMP Sun Feb 10 21:36:17 CET 2019 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux root@bananapim3:~# lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS Release: 18.04 Codename: bionic
