Nano Pi r5c img it's a file system

[debianwrt]

Hi all, I discovered this distro through FriendlyElec and I think it is the perfect hybrid of deb and wrt, but the only image is a file system, it doesn't even boot. All FriendlyElec's official ones are from 8 partitions with: boot, rootfs, kernel, etc, this one has everything in one and I don't think it's good for a mini device that runs in blocks like any openwrt. Has anyone installed on the r5c? How, is there a clean way to recreate the partitions? (note on boot: I turned on with sd and mask calc, steady red light, and eth mail router doesn't see it either. With friendlywrt and bullseye everything was working)

 

Edit light blinks, I was confused between usbimager, balena, winimager and I had put an empty sd when hoprovided rufus. But it remains that it doesn't go to dhcp, and the doubt about the blocks (maybe it creates them at installation).

 

Edit: Not dhcp matter, eth don't see any link. There's a best way to image sd? (Initial question)

 

Solved: if you want, delete the topic but take it as a recommendation for the installation guide. Extracting the archive.xz from explorer in windows 11 24h2 the content corrupts and win32diskimager (recommended by FriendlyElec) or usbimager (recommended by you), doesn't notice it, balenaetcher instead warned, so I tried to give it the archive.xz, it extracted it by itself and started. Thanks anyway for creating it, but warn about using balenaetcher on archive.xz to windows users, and delete the topic. Greetings!

 

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Edited Sunday at 10:07 PM by debianwrt
translation forget, sd reimage, checked ip link, solved please read

[Werner]

moved to off-topic since not about Armbian but 3rd party img.

[debianwrt]

@Werner Sorry to open it again, but that the download in the middle of the page https://www.armbian.com/nanopi-r5c/ is third party, I realized it now by re-reading in the middle of the page.

 

Can I ask you for an opinion? Given the type of device (one of many Pi), I would have a better ratio (hw-performance / sw-conflict), running: 1) this fork; 2) the official; 3) debian 12.

Compared to Debian 11 desktop factory iso, this fork increase very few performances. Does it make sense, in your opinion, that I improve with Armbian Stable?

 

Thanks anyway!

 

PS: also for the previous post, I re-read in the middle of the page and you say to give the archive.xz to usbimager. But considering that people generally flash iso's (windows, linux and even Nano Pi factories), for Pi's newer it is not obvious, it should be reiterated in parentheses.

[Werner]

Alright, was described a bit weird so I assumed you were talking about some 3rd party image.

I cannot tell what's the difference or if they work better than ours since I don't use or deal with those. Best you just give all of them a try.

Bullseye is Debian old-stable and will soon become old-old-stable. So if you don't want to deal with multiple major upgrades, if possible at all, I'd recommend to start with Bookworm or even Trixie (which I assume will not introduce major breakage until finally released in August since most packages are frozen already).

[eselarm]

6 hours ago, debianwrt said:

Can I ask you for an opinion?

it all depends on what your plan is what the device should do; I have a R6C for about 18 months now and bought it as an alternative/better more integrated alternative for existing RPi4 (and also RPi5 that still has no M.2 socket). I see many people on for example RPi forum who want to create some router thing, so they buy HATs and USB stuff for an RPi, but this NanoPi series has even WRT preinstalled. I removed it as I wanted generic server box (virtual machines host mainly). I do not really need the 2x RJ45 currenlty, but the metal case is great.  Is simple passive cooling and insect/animal proof. It is mainly bootloader and kernel (and DTB/overlays) that matter. The userspace can be taken from elsewhere if you know how to. I currently use the R6C as desktop as well in another cooler room (summer hot here). EDK2-UEFI v1.1 bootloader, Armbian edge 6.16-rc3 kernel, Opensuse Tumbleweed for Btrfs rootfs to drive a DVI monitor KDE plasma 6.4.x. It means various Rockchips HW blocks do not work like NPU and video codecs HW accel block, but that is a choice. If you need those, use vendor kernel and see what exctly you need/want. The 2x RJ45 might be a chalenge, see maybe also: