I have an old cubietruck, which is old, but still runs and is sufficient for my purposes as a web server.
Since armbian no longer supports cubietruck, i wanted to install debian (armhf). I have followed the instructions (https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Allwinner - > Installing from an SD card image). I have followed the instruction to create an SD Card with image:
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zcat firmware.<board_name>.img.gz partition.img.gz > /dev/SDCARD_DEVICE
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uboot> setenv console tty1
uboot> setenv bootargs console=tty1 fb=false
uboot> saveenv
uboot> boot
The instruction says in case: "If your USB-Keyboard does not work in u-boot, you can mount the partition.img, copy the configuration directives from boot.scr to boot.cmd (i.e. strip initial "noise") and insert the setenv commands above manually. Then run the following command
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mkimage -C none -A arm -T script -d boot.cmd boot.scr
I know it would be cheaper to bury the device, but for me this is simply a useless waste of resources...
best regards
sagrotan