OrangePi/Installing
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Flash SD Card with Orange Pi Image
The first step is to download an image and the flash the SD card with that image. These instructions will walk you through the steps.
Get The Image
Before you can download an image, you need to figure out which version of the Orange Pi you have, since there are about a dozen different versions. Turns out, I had the orange pi zero.
Get an image from Armbian: https://www.armbian.com/orange-pi-zero/
Extract the Image
Extract the .7z file using Keka (on Mac)
Prepare SD Card
Plug in an SD card and run diskutil list to see the sd card:
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical): #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk0 1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1 2: Apple_HFS CRONUS 999.3 GB disk0s2 3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3 /dev/disk1 (internal, physical): #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: FDisk_partition_scheme *15.9 GB disk1 1: Windows_FAT_32 NO NAME 64.0 MB disk1s1 2: Linux 7.3 GB disk1s2
Unmount it:
diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk1
Write Image to SD Card
For the last step, you use dd (disk formatter utility) to write that image to your SD card:
$ sudo dd bs=1m if=ubuntu_server_xenial_zeroplus2_H3_V0_1.img of=/dev/disk2
Modify SD Card Image
Once you've flashed the image, mount it on your computer so you can make a few changes to it prior to booting your Orange Pi.
Following instructions here: http://www.orangepi.org/orangepibbsen/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=342
First copy the uImage (presumably the boot image, "micro image"):
$ cp uImage_OPI-2 uImage
Next, copy one of the example script.bin files, depending on what monitor/resolution you want (how about NONE?):
$ cp script.bin.OPI-2_480p_dvi script.bin
Power By Ethernet
Intriguing topic: https://forum.armbian.com/index.php?/topic/3136-orange-pi-poe/