Hi all,
As Peter requested :-)
During the last three weeks I attended two conferences. In India we
wanted to have actual hardware to allow the participants of the training
to do their exercises and the attendees of the crypto currencies village
see how it works.
I'm going to split it. Covering the Orange Pi devices here and the
Raspberry Pi and the UDOO Neo in another message.
I decided to go with three Orange Pi Zero. They are easy to carry
around, have a physical NIC, are cheap and with a big powerbank we were
able to survive the power outages with are happening from time to time
there.
Of course, we wanted to run Fedora but I ended up using Armbian. I was
using fedora-arm-image-installer to create the cards.
# fedora-arm-image-installer \
--image=Fedora-Server-armhfp-27-1.6-sda.raw.xz
--target=orangepi_zero --media=/dev/mmcblk0 --resizefs
To get some feedback I connected a serial converter to the Orange Pi
Zero. The output is visible but minicom doesn't allow me to log in aka
doesn't accept any input no matter of minicom's settings. Same result
with a different adapter. My guess is that it would work if you know how
to do it as in a lot of cases it's the only way to get the details or
perform the initial setup.
According to the serial output the Orange Pi Zero should be available
over the network. It doesn't show me its IP address but that's fine. OK,
if are not using network which you have some sort of control over it
then it would be handy if you get the IP address from the serial output.
In the meantime were three SD card ready with Armbian and I stopped. The
reason is simple: Armbian is more plug-and-play than Fedora. The initial
configuration can be done over SSH and I don't wanted to waste more time
on getting Fedora running without any indication of success.
The next one was an Orange Pi PC. Reason to use was the HDMI output
which would make it possible to attach the unit to a projector.
Workstation image instead of Server this time.
# fedora-arm-image-installer \
--image=Fedora-Workstation-armhfp-27-1.6-sda.raw.xz \
--target=orangepi_pc --media=/dev/mmcblk0 --resizefs
Device starts running, no graphical output. Perhaps broken...no, works
fine with Armbian. Perhaps is the screen not playing nice with Fedora.
Other screen, same result.
Let's test the Orange Mini (that one is approx. the same age as the
Orange Pi PC). Same image, different target. After a couple of seconds
the LED went on but not HDMI output.
Kind regards,
Fabian
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