Installing Dropbear on A10 5.x

[gigamegawatts]

Hi,

I'm running TCL 5 on a Cubieboard. 

First off, I must say how impressed I am with TCL.  Until I tried TCL, I had given up on ever using the Cubieboard as a PC with a full GUI: it was just too slow.  With TCL, it's insanely fast!

I've run into a problem with Dropbear.  I'm trying to install it, following the instructions at http://tinycorelinux.net/5.x/armv7/Allwinner-A10/README-dropbear.txt.

I did all of the steps on my x86 PC running the TinyCore CD, and have a backup of the specified files in mydata.tgz on an SD card. 

Ummm, now what? 

Although the README doesn't say so, I figured I needed to install Dropbear on TCL 5 on the Cubieboard, then copy the settings and key files from mydata.tgz.  I ran import -b dropbear on the Cubieboard, and while that completed without any errors, there is no /etc/init.d/dropbear file, and I can't find any other dropbear files on the Cubieboard. 

Unless I'm missing something, the x86 files backed up in mydata.tgz won't work without the dropbear executables, will they?

Thanks,

Dan

[roberts]

Thanks for the kind words regarding dCore on Cubieboard.
To get dropbear on your cubieboard..

First create the sce with

import dropbear

Then when you want to use it:

loadsce dropbear

- or -
If you will always want dropbear loaded everytime you boot then you can use:

import -b dropbear

I always use dropbear and rsync, both are available for easy import as prebuilt packages.

I will have to review that README. Might be that it is no longer applicable or is a special case.

[beerstein]

HI gigamegawatt:
Which Cubieboard are you using? cubieboard 1 or cubieboard2?
Do you have a GUI installed?
Is dCore running in NAND or on the SD card?

I have a cubieboard2 and planning to install TCL,
Is there a new dCore 5.0 already available?

[gigamegawatts]

Hi beerstein,

I have a Cubieboard V1.  In TCL, I'm running an LXDE GUI from an SD card. 

The latest dCore 5 for the A10 was released Sept 4.  It's been very stable for me: I've installed Midori, Emacs, PCManFM, and all of them worked "out of the box", no extra configuration needed.

I don't know whether the Cubieboard V2 will work with Tiny Core Linux, since it has a different processor, the A20. 

Dan.

[beerstein]

thank you for your quick response. So I understand that you booted into dCore 5.0 CLI and then installed LXDE on top of it. Is this the case?

I have not yet started to play with my cubieboard2 but I red that it uses the same instruction set as the cubieboard1.

I will start soon and then might come back for help.

[gigamegawatts]

Beerstein,

Yes, that's basically it.  The full details are in a couple of README files:

- http://tinycorelinux.net/5.x/armv7/Allwinner-A10/README-1st.txt: instructions for creating a bootable SD card and configuring TCL from the command line

- http://tinycorelinux.net/5.x/armv7/Allwinner-A10/README-X-Desktop.txt: instructions for installing X Server and LXDE.  If you prefer a different desktops (e.g. OpenBox or XFCE4), there are various READMEs in the same directory 

It was pretty impressive: TCL identified the HDMI port and figured out my Ethernet settings at first bootup, so no extra configuration was required. The only Cubieboard-specific change I made was to change the resolution to 1920x1080 - that requires a change to the "script.bin" file that you'll find documented in the Cubieboard forums.

Dan.

[gigamegawatts]

Robert,

Yes, you're right: the "import -b dropbear" is all I needed.  The instructions in the README regarding the use of an x86 PC are no longer necessary.

dCore continues to amaze me: it's handled everything I've thrown at it so far.

Thanks,

Dan.

[roberts]

Hi Dan,

Thanks for the feedback. I have removed the README-dropbear.txt as it is no longer needed.