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Configure an SD Card Image for Better Compression
If you’re working on a Linux image for your single board computer (e.g. Raspberry Pi, OlinuXino, BeagleBone Black, etc.) and you notice that the compression of gzip sucks for the backup image, you need to re-format the SD card. For example, I created a Debian image on a card, which was partitioned for the whole…
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How To Backup an SD Card Image
Backing up an image for the Raspberry Pi, BeagleBone Black, OLinuXino, etc. Let’s say you’re trying to build Linux for your single board computer, and you need to back up the operating system (which, more than likely, is on an SD card). With a relatively small SD card (say, 4GB), you can copy the whole…
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Getting Started with the Olimex A13-OLinuXino-MICRO
Building Debian Linux for the Olimex A13-OLinuXino-MICRO References https://olimex.wordpress.com/2012/10/12/building-bootable-sd-card-with-debian-linux-image-for-a13-olinuxino/ https://www.olimex.com/forum/index.php?topic=790.0 Install required packages I like sudo, as it prevents me from doing stupid stuff. However, feel free to use “sudo su” if you don’t feel like typing “sudo” for half the commends. If you just copy and paste the commands, however, it really doesn’t matter.
