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Devuan SD card images

This repository simply adds Devuan to a fork of https://github.com/johang/sd-card-images. Please do not report any Devuan-issues to johang.

That project describes itself as

a bunch of scripts to build SD card images that various single-board computers (SBC) can boot.
Emphasis is on pureness; pure Debian and pure mainline U-boot.

The main implementation change is that the Dockerfile (Dockerfile.devuan) uses FROM devuan/devuan:daedalus.

Index

Pre-built images
Usage
- Build your own boot image
- Build your own Devuan ext4 root filesystem image
Examples
- Example boot image
- - To build a boot image for Raspberry Pi 3 B
- - To build a boot image for Pine64 Rockpro64
- - To build a boot image for Sinovoip Banana Pi M2 Zero
- Example root filesystem image
- - To build a Devuan ext4 root filesystem image for arm64
- - To build a Devuan ext4 root filesystem image for armhf

Pre-built images

Pre-built images for Debian are available from the original project at sd-card-images.johang.se.

There are no pre-built images for Devuan.

If you have problems here

This project is just a fork. If anything works at all, credit goes to johang.

If you have problems building a Devuan image here, please first try to build a Debian image using https://github.com/johang/sd-card-images.

Please do not report any Devuan-issues to johang, his interest is in pure Debian.

Usage

The generated SD card images are made up of two separate images:

boot-BOARD.bin: Boot image that contains partition table, U-Boot and chip-specific code. The boot image will only work on the board it's built for. The filename indicates which board it's built for.
devuan-ARCH-VERSION-PASSWORD.bin: Devuan ext4 root filesystem image that contains a complete Devuan installation, including kernel, initrd and device tree. This Devuan image is generic and will work on all chips and boards with the CPU architecture it's built for. The filename indicates Devuan version, CPU architecture and default root password.

These two images are the concatenated to a single image, which is then written to SD card, for example like this:

$ zcat boot-raspberrypi_3b.bin.gz devuan-daedalus-arm64-XXXXXX.bin.gz > sd-card.img
# dd if=sd-card.img of=/dev/sdXXX

Build your own boot image

See many appropriate values of CHIP_ID at https://sd-card-images.johang.se/.

A full list of relevant CONFIG values is at https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/tree/master/configs.

For any valid combination of:

Variable
BOARD_ID	Your choice of name, e.g. bananapi, pinebook
CHIP_ID	e.g. allwinner-a10, rk3399
CONFIG	e.g. Bananapi_defconfig, pinebook-pro-rk3399_defconfig
TUPLE	e.g. arm-linux-gnueabihf for armhf, aarch64-linux-gnu for arm64

To build:

docker build -t devuan/sd-images -f Dockerfile.devuan https://github.com/watchful-0wl/sd-card-images.git#add_devuan
mkdir -p /tmp/sd-images
docker run --rm \
  -v /tmp/sd-images:/artifacts \
  devuan/sd-images \
  build-boot ${BOARD_ID} ${CHIP_ID} ${CONFIG} ${TUPLE}

The image will end up in /tmp/sd-images on the host as ${BOARD_ID}.bin.gz.

Build your own Devuan ext4 root filesystem image

For any valid combination provided by the distribution:

Variable
DISTRIBUTION	Devuan	Debian	Ubuntu
ARCH	armhf, arm64, i386, amd64	armhf, arm64, i386, amd64	armhf, arm64, i386, amd64
RELEASE	e.g. daedalus, excalibur, ceres	e.g bookworm, trixie, sid	e.g. focal, jammy, noble

To build:

docker build -t devuan/sd-images -f Dockerfile.devuan https://github.com/watchful-0wl/sd-card-images.git#add_devuan
mkdir -p /tmp/sd-images
docker run --rm \
  -v /tmp/sd-images:/artifacts \
  devuan/sd-images \
  build-debian ${DISTRIBUTION} ${ARCH} ${RELEASE}

The image will end up in /tmp/sd-images on the host as ${DISTRIBUTION}-${ARCH}-${RELEASE}-${PASSWORD}.bin.