This document shows the steps for the creation of Archlinux and kernel 4.18.5 on the UDOO board.
Required material:
UDOO board, Ubuntu 16.04 and SD card.
Firts we need u-boot (universal bootloader), for that reason we need update the host.
$ sudo apt-get update
Then we need the file *.img and SPL for the file system
$ wget http://os.archlinuxarm.org/os/imx6/boot/udoo/SPL
$ wget http://os.archlinuxarm.org/os/imx6/boot/udoo/u-boot.img
Kernel 4.18.5 and file system:
$ sudo mkdir archlinux
$ wget http://os.archlinuxarm.org/os/ArchLinuxARM-armv7-latest.tar.gz
$ sudo tar -xzvf ArchLinuxARM-armv7-latest.tar.gz
$ sudo rm -rf *.tar.gz
You must have the following files
Now We are going to burn the memory, we need a 16Gb of space:
We need to make sure it is empty
Then partitions:
$ sudo fdisk /dev/sdc
O,
P,
N,
P,
1
space, 8192
default,
W
At the end the sdc is partition, then create the filesystem partition
$ sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdc1
The working directory
$ sudo mkdir mnt
mount the partition 1
$ sudo mount /devsdc1 mtn/
Now we where the kernel and filesystem are and copy all the file in mnt:
$ sudo cp -vr * ~/mnt/
Once it finish we execute
$ sync
then unmount the partition of sdc1:
$ sudo umount mnt/
Now is moment to load the SPL and u-boot:
and
$ sync
we retire the sd and turn on the board. Now you are on ArchLinux.
user: alarm root: Root
Pass: alarm pass: root
Now the firts thing we must do it is upgrade the keys:
$ pacman -key --init
$ pacman -key --populate archlinuxarm
$ pacman -Syyuu
We can add another user:
$ useradd - m -g user -s /bin/bash user_name
$ passwd user_name
$ paman -S sudo
$ visudo
Root ALL= (ALL) ALL
user_name ALL=(ALL) ALL
$ exit
For the graphic we are going to install the xorg:
$ sudo pacman -S xorg-server
$ sudo pacman -S xorg-apps
Now we can execute startx and observe the windows of xorg
$ startx
To have a windows gestor:
$ sudo pacman -S sddm
$ sudo pacman -S plasma kde-applications
$ sudo systemctl enable sddm
Reboot and you are ArchLinux graphics windows
