Eduardo Claro

Hi martinayotte, I am new to Orange Pi (mine is OPi Zero), just installed some times and played with it. Now I have it well configured and want a backup that works. I am trying to perform a backup to a img bootable file. Based on your comment here and other findings in the Internet, I was able to do the following steps: - Created an empty image (3G size). - Copied the first 1M from the original Orange Pi image to my backup image. - Mounted the backup image in loopback and used parted to remove the original partition (about 1.4G) and created a new one (with 3G). To do this, my new image started exactly at 4194304 bytes as the original. - Remounted in loopback the created partition and formatted it with mkfs.ext4. - Mounted the partition and copied all files from my OPi to the image. - Dismounted. Burn the img file to a new SD Card. After all these steps, I was able to read the SD Card content in another Linux distribution. But when I put this SD Card into OPi, it does not boot at all. It seems to be booting, but falls in a never-ending loop. I cannot connect to the OPi with this SD Card created from my backup. Any clue what I am missing?

thanks very much. By the way, I know it's a little off topic because it's not software-related, but if somebody can answer: how much power would it necessary for Orange Pi Zero? Would 1A (a regular phone charger) do the trick?

good to know, thanks very much.

Hi, I am completely newbie here, so apologize if my question is stupid... I am planning to buy a board to build a wireless print server. what I need my board to have is wireless connection and a Linux distribution capable of running cups, and a USB port. I think Orange Pi Zero fits my needs with a good price, BUT it does not come with any video output option built-in. My question is: if I buy Orange Pi Zero, and "burn" the armbian OS to SD card using my laptop, would I be able to configure ethernet and/or wifi network from my laptop, changing the network configuration files inside the SD card, and then boot the Pi board and have it connected to my network without the need to have a video output to configure something directly from the board, or it's absolutely mandatory to have a video output? Thanks a lot! EDUARDO