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Raspberry Pi 3: Arch Linux ARM 64bit to SDcard Script. This is for the Rapsberry Pi 3. For the RPi 2 (or the 3 32bit), see https://gist.github.com/pklaus/9dd4a7bf040788cda501 . For the RPi 1, see https://gist.github.com/pklaus/b92dfc72136d1509c2ed .
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#!/bin/bash | |
# <https://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv8/broadcom/raspberry-pi-3> | |
echo -e "\n\nArch Linux ARM to SD Card" | |
echo -e "For the Raspberry Pi 3, if you want to use the unofficial arm64 variant." | |
echo -e "(Otherwise use the Raspberry Pi 2 version of this script!)\n\n" | |
if [[ $EUID -ne 0 ]]; then | |
echo "This script must be run as root" 1>&2 | |
exit 1 | |
fi | |
echo -e "\nAll drives on this computer:\n" | |
ls -1 /dev/sd? | |
echo -e "\nLast messages in syslog:\n" | |
dmesg | tail | |
echo -e "\nChoose sd card (like /dev/sdX):\n" | |
read SDCARD | |
echo -e "\n\nCurrent partitioning of $SDCARD:\n" | |
parted $SDCARD print | |
echo -e "\n\nYou chose $SDCARD\nAre you sure to continue? Press Ctrl-C to abort!" | |
read | |
cd /tmp | |
echo -e "\nDownloading the Arch Linux ARM root filesystem (if needed):\n" | |
URL=http://archlinuxarm.org/os/ArchLinuxARM-rpi-3-latest.tar.gz | |
# Sometimes the download server is slow. In that case, try a different one instead: | |
#URL=http://de7.mirror.archlinuxarm.org/os/ArchLinuxARM-rpi-3-latest.tar.gz | |
FNAME=$(basename "$URL") | |
FSIZE=$(curl --head --location --silent "$URL" --write-out '%{http_code} %{size_download} \n' | tac | grep -m1 Content-Length | cut -f 2 -d' ' | tr -d '\r') | |
if [ -n "$FNAME" ] | |
then | |
CURSIZE=$(wc -c <"$FNAME") | |
if [ $CURSIZE -ne $FSIZE ]; then | |
rm "$FNAME" | |
echo "Removing any downloaded and leftover Arch Linux ARM image" | |
fi | |
fi | |
curl --location --remote-name --time-cond "$FNAME" "$URL" | |
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then | |
echo "Could not download the image file, please check the mirror" | |
exit 1 | |
fi | |
echo -e "\nUnmounting partitions found on ${SDCARD}\n" | |
for MOUNT in ${SDCARD}? | |
do | |
echo $MOUNT | |
umount $MOUNT | |
done | |
parted -s $SDCARD unit s print | |
parted -s $SDCARD mktable msdos | |
parted -s $SDCARD mkpart primary fat32 8192s 128MiB | |
parted -s $SDCARD mkpart primary 128MiB 100% | |
parted -s $SDCARD unit s print | |
mkfs.vfat ${SDCARD}1 | |
mkfs.ext4 ${SDCARD}2 | |
rm -rf boot | |
rm -rf root | |
mkdir boot | |
mkdir root | |
mount ${SDCARD}1 boot | |
mount ${SDCARD}2 root | |
echo -e "\nExtracting the root filesystem\n" | |
bsdtar -xpf ArchLinuxARM-rpi-3-latest.tar.gz -C root | |
sync | |
echo -e "\nMoving boot files to the first partition\n" | |
mv root/boot/* boot | |
echo -e "\nUnmounting the two partitions\n" | |
umount boot root | |
rmdir boot root | |
echo "Insert the SD card into the Raspberry Pi 2, connect ethernet, and apply 5V power." | |
echo "Use the serial console or SSH to the IP address given to the board by your router. The username/password combination is alarm/alarm. The default root password is 'root'." | |
cd - |
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