As already described in the previous article
also for the Armbian distribution we have to prepare an sd micro card. It is advisable to use a micro SD class 10 to gain better performances. As first step we proceed to the Armbian image download from Armbian web site
We choose for example the Debian Jessie Desktop Image. We expand the content using a compression software, as Keka
obtaining one file having .raw extension
Then we plug the micro sd card and find this device
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diskutil list |
In our case we have the following output
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#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: FDisk_partition_scheme *7.9 GB disk2 1: DOS_FAT_32 NEW VOLUME 7.9 GB disk2s1 |
We proceed to the device unmout; in our case the command is
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diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2 |
WARNING: Be sure that the device is the micro sd card and not the internal disk. The next operation imply the complete rewriting of the device with the loss of all data on it.
We can now write the image into the micro sd card, using the correct device, that in our case is /dev/disk2
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sudo dd if=./imagename.raw of=/dev/sdb bs=4M |
WARNING: This operation wipes all data on the micro sd card.
After a while we have the micro sd card ready to be used in the Orange PI PC board.