Install Cubian - cubieplayer/Cubian GitHub Wiki

In this tutorial you will learn how to install Cubian to your Cubieboard on both micro-SD card and NAND.

Download

Currently you can download Cubian at http://cubian.org/downloads/.

Install to Micro-SD card

Linux

Unzip the img If the img filename end with bz2

 bzip2 -d PATH_TO_CUBIAN.bz2

If it ends with 7z

 apt-get install p7zip-full
 7z x PATH_TO_CUBIAN.7z

Write to your device

 dd if=PATH_TO_CUBIAN of=/dev/YOUR_DEVICE bs=4096; sync

Windows users
1. Download Image writer.
  
  Link1 Link2
2. Unzip the img
  
  Please use 7-zip to unzip the IMG file
3. Rename the img
  
  Our Image writer only recognize file with a raw extension, so rename the image file.Press windows and R,run cmd.exe and then execute the DOS command
```
 rename PATH_TO_CUBIAN PATH_TO_CUBIAN.raw
```
4. Write the Img to your device
Mac OS X users
1. insert SD card to your mac and wait for system to detect it. Do not eject.
2. run
```
 diskutil list
```
3. determine device identifier
4. unmount the device
```
 diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2
```
5. copy image file to SD card, this process can take a while so please be patient.
```
 sudo dd if=/Users/YOUR-USERNAME/Downloads/Cubian-base-r1-arm-a20.img of=/dev/disk2 bs=1m
```
6. If successful, terminal will return to standard prompt and display a success message:
```
 1024+0 records in
 1024+0 records out
 1073741824 bytes transferred in 656.027953 secs (1636732 bytes/sec)
```

Install to NAND

Installing Cubian to NAND is pretty easy.

First, you need to install it to your Micro-SD card using the tutorial above, then boot and login to your Cubieboard. the default username and password is cubie
Once you logged in, if you have an earlier version, you will execute the following command
```
  sudo ~/nandinstall/install.sh
```

However, if you have the latest release, the ~/nandinstall folder isn't there. In that case, you need to install the tool by yourself and then run it, as follows:

    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install cubian-nandinstall
    sudo cubian-nandinstall

Note: If you get the error 'Method /usr/lib/apt/methods/ did not start correctly' try running apt-get update first. This happens because apt-get tries to install an old version of cubian-nandinstall from packages.cubian.org.

Screenshots

Screenshots of Cubian running on Mirco-SD card

Cubian Mirco-SD

Screenshots of Cubian running on NAND

Cubian Mirco-SD

Additional

Expanding the size of your NAND partition to 4GB.

WARNING! THIS WILL DELETE ALL DATA! (Cannot run while an OS is currently running from the NAND drive. You must use Live"SD".)

(Must be root! Or sudo)

If you are running a recent version of cubie, you should skip to apt-get update.

Add GPG key

$ wget -O - http://packages.cubian.org/cubian.gpg.key | apt-key add -

Edit /etc/apt/sources.list and add this line

deb http://packages.cubian.org/ wheezy main

apt-get update

Install cubian-resizefs

apt-get install cubian-resizefs

Resizing the partition (Remember this must only be done from a live"SD")

$ sudo su

$ cubian-resizefs /dev/nandd

If /dev/nandd doesn't resize the file system to max, go through all the nand partitions and try the command! Examples

$ cubian-resizefs /dev/nand
$ cubian-resizefs /dev/nanda
$ cubian-resizefs /dev/nandb
$ cubian-resizefs /dev/nandc
$ cubian-resizefs /dev/nandd
$ cubian-resizefs /dev/nande

Alternatively if this fails, try logging in via LiveCD/SD and resizing while the NAND is not in use.

Example of how my NAND resize turned out

halfhead@Cubian:~$ df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs          3.8G  0.4G  3.4G  9% /
/dev/root       3.8G  0.4G  3.4G  9% /