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NanoPi Neo

The FriendlyARM NanoPi NEO is a single-board computer.

Technical details

  • Allwinner H3 SoC
    • 4x ARM Cortex-A7 CPU
  • 256 MB / 512 MB RAM
  • Micro SD
  • 1x USB 2.0 host, 1x USB OTG
  • Ethernet

Writing a disk image to the SD card

  1. Download the image you want (Leap is stable, Tumbleweed is rolling) from here:
    Geeko-white.png
    Tumbleweed
    JeOS image

    If the direct links above do not work for you, please check the general download directory for the images.

  2. As root extract the image onto your SD card (replace sdX with the device name of your SD card).
    WARNING: all previous data on the SD card will be lost. Check first if the device you have selected is really your SD card!
     xzcat [image].raw.xz | dd bs=4M of=/dev/sdX iflag=fullblock oflag=direct; sync
  3. Insert the SD card with the openSUSE image into your board.
  4. Connect the board to your PC via serial port (optional, but helpful for debugging; USB-TTL serial cable needed).
  5. Connect the board to your monitor (via DVI/HDMI, optional).
  6. Power on the board.
  7. Walk through the first boot steps.
  8. Ethernet is configured to request an IP via DHCP, check your DHCP server for the board IP if used.
  9. Have a lot of fun...
Default login is root:linux, works on serial console, via ssh, GUI.

Manual installation

U-Boot

u-boot-nanopineo

dd if=u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin of=/dev/sdX bs=1024 seek=8 oflag=sync

See also