For this method, you will need an 8GB SD card. Smaller cards will be supported in future. Please note that the image files are currenly provided for testing purposes, and they may not work correctly.
Obtain an image file of your choice from archive.outernet.is/images. There are currently two images:
- Arch ARM
- Raspbian (also available no WiFi access point)
Latest is Raspbian-ap (1.5GB expanded)
You will need to unpack the 7zip archive and copy the image onto an SD card using an image writer program. You will also need 10GB of free disk space (2GB for 7zip archive, and 8GB more for the actual image file).
You can use the official 7zip program and Win32 disk imager to write the image file.
Right-click the 7zip archive, and select 7-Zip context menu, then Extract Here.
Once extracted, you can write the image file by opening Win32 disk imager, selecting the image file, selecting the drive which holds your SD card, and clicking Write.
In most Linux distribution, there should be a p7zip command line tool. In some cases, your file manager may support unpacking 7zip archives so explore that option if you don't want to use the command line. From command line, you can unpack the archive like this:
p7zip -d /path/to/ORx-image-file.7zip
Most Linux distributions come with dd, which is a command line tool for
writing image files. This command is used like this:
dd if=/path/to/ORx-image-file.img of=/dev/sdX bs=4
You may get a warning that the target drive is out of space, but this should generally not be a problem unless your card is significantly smaller than the image file. We will fix this issue in future, with smaller image files.
First, if you do not already have xcode command-line tools installed, then type this in a terminal:
xcode-select --install
Next, we need to aquire 7zip. The easiest way is to start with hombrew, which can be installed by opening a terminal and typing:
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
It should work by default; if not, full installation instructions can be found here:
Once homebrew is installed you may download p7zip like this:
brew install p7zip
Of course, you could always install it manually and can find the documentation to here:
Now directions are the same as for Linux distributions. Mac OS X already comes with 'dd' installed by default. Type the following:
p7zip -d /path/to/ORx-image-file.7zip
To find which disk you would want to copy the image file to run the command:
disktutil list
Output will look similiar to this:
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *500.1 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Microsoft Basic Data 25.1 GB disk0s2
The far right of the output contains what you put after /dev/*.
dd if=/path/to/ORx-image-file.img of=/dev/diskXsY bs=4
You may get a warning that the target drive is out of space, but this should generally not be a problem unless your card is significantly smaller than the image file. We will fix this issue in future, with smaller image files.