Firefly-RK3399 Buy Specs

Equipped with a six-core 64-bit "server class" processor Rockchip RK3399, and with 2GB/4GB DDR3 and 16G/32GB eMMC, as well as increases PCIe 2.1 M.2, DP 1.2, Type-C, USB3.0 and other high-performance data transmission and display interface.

Build Ubuntu Rfs

Update time:2018-04-13 Views:5472

Before You Start

install qemu

intall qemu in your computer

sudo apt-get install qemu-user-static

Download & Decompression the ubuntu-core

Firefly-rk3399 create the root-file-system by the Ubuntu base 16.04. You can download from here ubuntu cdimg download. please choose this one : ubuntu-base-16.04.1-base-arm64.tar.gz 。

after download,create a temporary folder for decompression.

 mkdir temp
sudo tar -xpf ubuntu-base-16.04.1-base-arm64.tar.gz -C temp

Optimized the rootfs

Preparations

get your network readyː

 sudo cp -b /etc/resolv.conf temp/etc/resolv.conf

prepare qemu

 sudo cp /usr/bin/qemu-aarch64-static temp/usr/bin/

Change root

 sudo chroot temp

update & install

update:

 apt update
apt upgrade

install you need

 apt install vim git...(something you like)

install xubuntu

 apt install xubuntu-desktop

user & password

 useradd -s '/bin/bash' -m -G adm,sudo firefly

set user's password

 passwd firefly

set the root user's password

 passwd root

After all the work is done,exit

 exit

make the rootfs

make the rootfs,notice that you need change the "count" value according to the size of the "temp" folder.

 dd if=/dev/zero of=linuxroot.img bs=1M count=2048
sudo  mkfs.ext4  linuxroot.img
mkdir  rootfs
sudo mount linuxroot.img rootfs/
sudo cp -rfp temp/*  rootfs/
sudo umount rootfs/
e2fsck -p -f linuxroot.img
resize2fs  -M linuxroot.img

The final root filesystem linuxroot.img is ready to serve.

Something more

when the system is ready, remember resize the rootfs partition by

 resize2fs /dev/mtd/by-name/linuxroot