Linux Distributions for Orange PI H3 boards

blindpet

loboris replied at 2015-9-1 02:37
Probably the wrong script.bin selected.

Thanks, that will make things easier. Is script.bin necessary?

People will get unable to resolve hostname errors and it is because the hostname needs to be in /etc/hosts, perhaps you can add this to your script. After I added OrangePiPlus to /etc/hosts on 127.0.0.1 line after localhost it disappeared.

reboot command just shuts device off, what's up with that?

loboris

blindpet replied at 2015-8-31 19:41
Thanks, that will make things easier. Is script.bin necessary?

People will get unable to resolve  ...

The script.bin IS necessary. Otherwise you have to build (and write to sdcard) separate u-boot for each board. It is much simpler to change the script.bin file.

You can put any additional network related command/configuration into set_network() subrutine in second_stage script.
I'll put the hostname into /etc/hosts in the next version of the script, thanks.

I've never had any problem with reboot command.

blindpet

loboris replied at 2015-9-1 02:49
The script.bin IS necessary.
You can put any additional network related command/configuration into  ...

hmm, I must have a defective unit then, reboot just shuts my device off :/

Another issue, when trying to run Plex I get a funny error as if the distro can't see files with spaces in them

root@OrangePiPlus:/usr/lib/plexmediaserver# bash start.sh
start.sh: line 11: ./Plex Media Server: No such file or directory

The Plex Media Server file exists and the spaces are properly escaped in the start.sh file (it works on Raspberry Pi 2, Banana Pi etc)

loboris

blindpet replied at 2015-8-31 20:05
hmm, I must have a defective unit then, reboot just shuts my device off :/

Another issue, when tr ...

You have to put file names with spaces in quotes "Plex Media Server"

blindpet

loboris replied at 2015-9-1 03:09
You have to put file names with spaces in quotes "Plex Media Server"

Thanks but I tried that, it makes no difference. This method has worked on every arm7 device on Debian Wheezy and Jessie so something is up.

Another question, why does blkid output so many partitions?

1. <div><div>/dev/mmcblk0: PTUUID="779eb776" PTTYPE="dos"</div><div>/dev/mmcblk0p1: LABEL="BOOT" UUID="480C-D2F8" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="779eb776-01"</div><div>/dev/mmcblk0p2: LABEL="linux" UUID="4e81b8e2-a257-4ffe-bfc1-3327bf109dee" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="779eb776-02"</div><div>/dev/mmcblk1: PTTYPE="dos"</div><div>/dev/mmcblk1p1: UUID="57f8f4bc-abf4-655f-bf67-946fc0f9f25b" TYPE="ext4"</div><div>/dev/mmcblk1p2: SEC_TYPE="msdos" LABEL="Volumn" TYPE="vfat"</div><div>/dev/mmcblk1p7: UUID="57f8f4bc-abf4-655f-bf67-946fc0f9f25b" TYPE="ext4"</div><div>/dev/mmcblk1p11: LABEL="PRIVATE" UUID="CE63-07B2" TYPE="vfat"</div><div>/dev/mmcblk1p12: SEC_TYPE="msdos" UUID="F06F-07B2" TYPE="vfat"</div><div>/dev/mmcblk1p16: UUID="57f8f4bc-abf4-655f-bf67-946fc0f9f25b" TYPE="ext4"</div></div><div></div>

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loboris

blindpet replied at 2015-8-31 20:20
Thanks but I tried that, it makes no difference. This method has worked on every arm7 device on De ...

Spaces in names has nothing to do with cpu architecture or board, type, so it cannot be something OPI specific.

mmcblk1 partitions are android partitions on emmc. Allwinner has very weird android partition layout, not to mention that almost 2 GB are waisted for nothing.

blindpet

loboris replied at 2015-9-1 03:33
Spaces in names has nothing to do with cpu architecture or board, type, so it cannot be something O ...

Was just curious about the partitions.

I don't think it is OPi specific, I think it has something to do with the distro missing something (I did install python which the start.sh calls but it made no difference). You can try yourself if you have the time, it happened on Utopic image built using your method too. This same installation works on Raspberry Pi 2 (Raspbian and Minibian, Wheezy and Jessie), Banana Pi (Igor's images, Bananian) and ODROID-C1 Lubuntu.

git clone https://github.com/blindpet/MediaServerInstaller
cd MediaServerInstaller
bash install.sh
Choose Plex.

Plex will be installed to /usr/lib/plexmediaserver and is started using start.sh through an init.d script.

I have tried running "./Plex Media Server" as per your suggestion, you can just escape the special characters and it works the same as quotes ./Plex\ Media\ Server but that isn't working either. I even renamed the file to PlexMediaServer and it still says the file doesn't exist.

jacer

loboris replied at 2015-8-30 16:24
OPI-PC users can download any of the available images.
After writing the image to the SD Card copy ...

Good to know. Installing kodi on this tiny credict card sized minipc will be great news. This means we don`t have to use Android OS to watch 1080P movies. And maybe flash videos like u2b. And one more qustion, is it possible to make gutenprint running on this cheap minipc?  Gutenprint has many printer drivers all compacted together. It`s  useful for some home printing. Maybe we should ask the developer of gutenprint and GIMP for support.

raid3868

Hi,

anyone know how to install x2go server? I m using image OrangePI_Ubuntu_Vivid_Mate.img .

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:x2go/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install x2goserver x2goserver-xsession

sudo apt-get install x2goserver x2goserver-xsession
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package x2goserver is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'x2goserver' has no installation candidate

goldenfenix

raid3868 replied at 2015-9-1 09:11
Hi,

anyone know how to install x2go server? I m using image OrangePI_Ubuntu_Vivid_Mate.img .

hi try this
http://odroidxu.leeharris.me.uk/x2go-trusty-armhf.tar.xzcd x2go-trusty-armhf
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
sudo apt-get -f install


[size=11.6999998092651px]for me it's working in ubuntu trusty