on Wikipedia
https://web.archive.org/web/20201128185034/http://cubieboard.org/

• CubieBoard 3

  • SoC: Allwinner A20
• I used to use a Raspberry Pi

• Abandoned

  • Everything appears to be gone.

• 2017-09-21 – I killed this project.

  • I stopped using this some time ago.

• ~2014-01-10 – I used to use a Raspberry Pi

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• https://web.archive.org/web/20201204074439/http://www.cubieforums.com/

• I think I bought mine from https://web.archive.org/web/20141213050824/https://www.miniand.com/

  • https://web.archive.org/web/20150420152843/http://archive.miniand.com/
  • https://twitter.com/miniand_tech
• CubieTruck Lubuntu
• Google Group
• Google+

• Forum > CubieTruck

Stuff ∞

• xpra > xpra on the cubietruck

• rdesktop > Remote desktop on the CubieTruck

2016-09-28 bookmarks dump ∞

I’m killing this project and dumping bookmarks:

• init: plymouth main process (70) killed by SEGV signal
• init: ureadahead main process (69) terminated with status 5
• Reddit > https://www.reddit.com/r/cubieboard
• https://linux-sunxi.org/Bootable_OS_images lists some A20 images.
• https://groups.google.com/forum/?_escaped_fragment_=categories/cubieboard#!categories/cubieboard
• https://web.archive.org/web/20200922041937/http://docs.cubieboard.org/tutorials/a20-cubietruck_lubuntu_server_releases
• https://arkos.io/ explicitly supports the CubieTruck.
• Black Ewell Case for Cubietruck

• install this instead: https://web.archive.org/web/20201027010834/http://docs.cubieboard.org/tutorials/ct1/installation/cb3_lubuntu-12.10-desktop_nand_installation_v1.00

References ∞

• https://web.archive.org/web/20190821063843/http://cubieforums.com:80/
• documentation
• Cubieboard Unboxing and Quick Start Guide
• cubieboard first steps
• github/cubieboard2

• https://linux-sunxi.org/Main_Page

Distributions ∞

• CubieTruck Lubuntu
• https://web.archive.org/web/20160720214023/http://dl.cubieboard.org:80/model/cubietruck/

• (Android) https://web.archive.org/web/20160525030049/http://dl.cubieboard.org:80/software/a20-cubietruck/android/

  • https://web.archive.org/web/20200922204115/http://docs.cubieboard.org/tutorials/cb3/installation/cubietruck_android-4.2.2_releases
• CubieTruck images

• https://linux-sunxi.org/Bootable_OS_images

  • Look up the A20

• (Debian) https://romanrm.net/a10/debian

  • Abandoned: As of 2017-08-14 – last updated 2014-10-14 with https://www.debian.org/News/2013/20130504 Debian 7.0 Wheezy, itself released 2013-05-04.

• (Debian) https://web.archive.org/web/20201211162453/http://cubian.org/

  • Abandoned: As of 2017-08-14 – last updated 2014-10-08 with https://www.debian.org/News/2013/20130504 Debian 7.0 Wheezy, itself released 2013-05-04.

Notes ∞

• SD-Card performance comparison

  • bad performance is from a mistuned driver, will be fixed upstream
• https://web.archive.org/web/20200922180018/http://docs.cubieboard.org/tutorials/ct1/development/booting_from_usb_otg_port

• The default user/password is linaro/linaro

Issues ∞

• tty1 is logged in as root, and I can’t log out!
• locales are not installed, I don’t know if that will be a problem or not.

• When creating the bootable SD card, when I sha256sum the contents of the root partition after extraction, nine files always fail the checksum.

  • I’ve repeated the extraction process twice, and have reformatted the card inbetween tries.
• Install failed: can’t mount root

installation ∞

I’ll probably put this into GitHub, I’m still figuring shit out.

post-install steps ∞

  # as root
  \adduser  user
  \usermod  -G sudo  user
  \userdel  --remove  linaro
  \echo y | \apt-get  update  &&\
            \apt-get  dist-upgrade
  \apt-get install \
    lftp \
    screen \
    ` # `

Hardware notes ∞

• I’m told the maximum microSD card size is 32 MB.

  • I don’t have a source, so this needs to be verified.