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GT King Pro-Ubuntu 21.10 Impish Indri Firmware with Panfrost-5.14.15 Kernel

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Post time 2021-12-18 15:23:32 | Show all posts
roscar2410 replied at 2021-12-17 23:55
Hello darkstar,
can't activate a wifi adapter?
thank

If you have a GT King Pro with wifi 6 - there might not be a wifi 6 driver/firmware yet.
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Post time 2021-12-19 00:32:23 | Show all posts
JFL replied at 2021-12-18 15:23
If you have a GT King Pro with wifi 6 - there might not be a wifi 6 driver/firmware yet.

Thanks JFL
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Post time 2021-12-24 15:21:26 | Show all posts
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
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JFL replied at 2021-12-24 15:21
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
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Post time 2021-12-30 20:54:43 | Show all posts
Hi @darkstar,

I just came across this "Re: N2+ Ubuntu + Kodi + VDR + hyperion.ng" from https://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?f=177&p=340902&sid=d47f1b0684f425498e4c0997794b6f8e#p340902.
In this tutorial I would like to provide all steps required in order to make fully accelerated KODI run in Ubuntu 20.04.
It might intrest you.
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Post time 2021-12-31 13:34:57 | Show all posts
Edited by JFL at 2021-12-31 13:38

Hi @darkstar,  How to Create a Working Linux Disk Image on HDD for Backup.

Hope you won't mind sharing or guiding me on how to back up a working Linux Disk/image on to an image just like you did for your Ubuntu Impish 5.14.15 image.  I used a gnome-disk-utility to "Create Disk Image" and it created a "Disk Image" but of the same size example 8 GB disk with a 8 GB image and 64 GB disk with 64 GB image.  Not the same as your Ubuntu Impish 5.14.15 image size is 1.1GB!


The main purpose is to back up the working image on a HDD so I can recover the particular image easily by using Rufus or Etcher to recreate a the working image on SD/USB and resize where necessary.

Appreciate your guidance on this.  Is  here a special application for this?



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 Author| Post time 2021-12-31 20:00:05 | Show all posts
Edited by darkstar at 2021-12-31 20:11
JFL replied at 2021-12-31 13:34
Hi @darkstar,  How to Create a Working Linux Disk Image on HDD for Backup.

Hope you won't mind shar ...

there are different ways to prepare a firmware image.
If you just want to take a backup of your working sd / usb drive you can use the command below.

For example :
your SD cars is recognized as /dev/sdb and you want to take a backup from it.
  1. dd if=/dev/sdb of=sdcard-backup.img
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this command will take a one to one copy of your sd card to sdcard-backup.img file.
this is just for backup if want to restore from backup just use command below.
  1. dd if=sdcard-backup.img of=/dev/sdb
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If you want to build a new firmware you can use Khadas Fenix Script or Armbian Build System
https://github.com/khadas/fenix
https://github.com/armbian/build

It is also possible to modify or port a firmware image  to your device, but it needs advanced Linux skills.
There is another way to build an image from scratch but this is more difficult.

If you want to give it a try, fenix script is a good point to start.
By the way may images are compressed with xz, compression ratio is about %75-%80. balenaetcher decompresses it automatically.
You can compress your image with xz -z your-image.img command. xz will copress your image to your-image.img.xz file.

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Post time 2021-12-31 23:03:04 | Show all posts
darkstar replied at 2021-12-31 20:00
there are different ways to prepare a firmware image.
If you just want to take a backup of your wor ...

Hi @darkstar,

If you just want to take a backup of your working sd / usb drive you can use the command below.

For example : your SD cars is recognized as /dev/sdb and you want to take a backup from it.

    dd if=/dev/sdb of=sdcard-backup.img

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this command will take a one to one copy of your sd card to sdcard-backup.img file.
Thanks for the guidance.  Pardon my newbie on linux commands.  My main purpose is to backup a working SD/USB to a HDD.
  1. dd if=/dev/sdb of=sdcard-backup.img
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My question is can "of=sdcard-backup.img"be on HDD (example:  /run/media/jfl/Elements/GT_King_Pro/Image_Backup) as just a image file and NOT the whole HDD.

A real example:
  1. lsblk
  2. NAME         MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
  3. sda            8:0    1  57.3G  0 disk
  4. ├─sda1         8:1    1 213.6M  0 part /boot
  5. └─sda2         8:2    1  57.1G  0 part /
  6. sdb            8:16   0 298.1G  0 disk
  7. └─sdb1         8:17   0 298.1G  0 part /run/media/jfl/Elements
  8. sdc            8:32   1   7.7G  0 disk
  9. ├─sdc1         8:33   1 213.6M  0 part /run/media/jfl/BOOT_MNJRO
  10. └─sdc2         8:34   1   7.4G  0 part /run/media/jfl/ROOT_ARMB
  11. mmcblk1      179:0    0  57.6G  0 disk
  12. mmcblk1boot0 179:32   0     4M  1 disk
  13. mmcblk1boot1 179:64   0     4M  1 disk
  14. zram0        252:0    0   5.5G  0 disk [SWAP]
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For example I want to back up USB "sdc" to HDD "sdb" in one of the flooder in "sdb" ( /run/media/jfl/Elements/GT_King_Pro/Image_Backup)

What would be the actual dd command?  dd if=/dev/sdc of=???

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 Author| Post time 2022-01-01 00:22:21 | Show all posts
Edited by darkstar at 2022-01-01 00:23
JFL replied at 2021-12-31 23:03
Hi @darkstar,

Thanks for the guidance.  Pardon my newbie on linux commands.  My main purpose is t ...
  1. dd if=/dev/sdc of=sdcard-backup.img
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will generate and write sdcard-backup.img file to the current working directory.
for example
  1. r00t@HP-250-G7:~$ pwd
  2. /home/r00t
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Post time 2022-01-01 15:42:24 | Show all posts
darkstar replied at 2022-01-01 00:22
will generate and write sdcard-backup.img file to the current working directory.
for example
    dd if=/dev/sdc of=sdcard-backup.img

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will generate and write sdcard-backup.img file to the current working directory.
Noted. If my default/current directory is "home" it will copy it to "home" directory.  Will try it and see whether it generate the whole USB firmware including the empty space (no data/code) on just like using gnome-disk-utility "disks" app or it stripped out the empty space.

Thank you.  Happy New Year.

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