Tiny Core Linux
dCore Import Debian Packages to Mountable SCE extensions => dCore Armv7 => Allwinner A10 => Topic started by: gigamegawatts on September 15, 2013, 10:23:13 PM
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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
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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
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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 Might be that it is no longer applicable or is a special case.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Hi Dan,
Thanks for the feedback. I have removed the README-dropbear.txt as it is no longer needed.