Costales: Lubuntu 14.04 for Cubieboard 2

Cubieboard2 (CPU A20)

I bought a Cubieboard2 and I made a Lubuntu 14.04 image! Now, it's really fast and easy to deploy that image in a cubieboard2 with a NAND = 4GB.

Download the Lubuntu 14.04 image for CubieBoard2 here.



LUBUNTU 14.04 INSTALL STEPS:
Boot with a Live distro, by example, with Cubian into a microSD (>8GB) with these steps.

Copy this Lubuntu image downloaded into the root of the microSD.

Boot the Cubieboard2 with Cubian from the microSD.

Open a Terminal (Menu / Accesories / LXTerminal) and run:
sudo su -
[password is "cubie"]
cd /
gunzip lubuntu-14.04-cubieboard2-nand.img.gz
dd if=/lubuntu-14.04-cubieboard2-nand.img conv=sync,noerror bs=64K of=/dev/nand

It's done! Reboot :) You must to have Lubuntu 14.04.1 running with 4GB as NAND partition. User: linaro, password: linaro.



RECOMMEND STEPS AFTER INSTALLATION:

As sudo for the next steps:
sudo su -

• Add your new user (change 'username' for your new user):

useradd -m username -G adm,dialout,cdrom,audio,dip,video,plugdev,admin,inet -s /bin/bash ; passwd username

• Set keyboard layout in persist mode (By example, for the Spanish is "es"):

echo 'setxkbmap -layout "es"' >> /etc/xdg/lxsession/Lubuntu/autostart

• Set localtime (By example, for Spain local time = Europe/Madrid), in other way, the browser will have problems with the https web pages:

rm /etc/localtime ; ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Madrid /etc/localtime ; ntpdate ntp.ubuntu.com

• Change password to linaro user or remove (logout required) that user (it's sudo and all people know this password, do it ;):

userdel -r linaro

• Install ssh-client for connect by ssh or pulseaudio pavucontrol for audio.

HOW WAS THIS IMAGE DONE?
For this image I installed an official Lubuntu 13.04 Image from here, and I did this changes:
- Resized NAND to 4GB (Ubuntu will use 1.5GB; 2GB free). You can use a microSD or SATA HD as external storage.
- Updated to 13.10 and then to 14.04 LTS (Updated lxde* packages to last versions).
- Installed ntp, firefox, audacious, sylpheed, pidgin, gpicview, lxappearance and ufw (not enabled)
- Rewritabled and group owner for avoid ufw warnings: /etc, /, /lib
- Removed chromium-browser, gnome-network-manager and gnome-disk-utility
- Removed no password for admin users (edited /etc/sudoers)
- Created this dd image



(OPTIONAL) PREVIOUSLY BACKUP OF YOUR CURRENT CUBIEBOARD2:
Insert a microSD card in your current OS:
sudo su -
dd if=/dev/nand conv=sync,noerror bs=64K | gzip -c -9 > /nand.img.gz
(OPTIONAL) RESTORE THAT BACKUP:
cd /
gunzip nand.img.gz
dd if=/nand.img conv=sync,noerror bs=64K of=/dev/nand