Install system

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Prerequsits:

Install Etcher

Rock5b+ Official image

Download image from rock site https://docs.radxa.com/rock5/rock5b/download:

rock-5b-plus_bookworm_kde_b2.output.img.xz

Note that the image must be decompressed first.

You may get error like:

Grant full disk access to etcher in privacy setting and run as sudo user:

# see https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/issues/4451
sudo open -a balenaEtcher

Armbian

Download image from https://www.armbian.com/rock-5b-plus/.

eg. Armbian_25.11.1_Rock-5b_noble_vendor_6.1.115_gnome_desktop.img.xz

Note that the xz file must be extracted before writing.

shasum -a 256  ~/Downloads/Armbian_25.11.1_Rock-5b_noble_vendor_6.1.115_gnome_desktop.img.xz
d3977e1bb9932b35a10e891fddb4e5d4840d709f2094c5a0cfdfb15cfa97b522  /Users/riguz/Downloads/Armbian_25.11.1_Rock-5b_noble_vendor_6.1.115_gnome_desktop.img.xz

TTL connection

ls /dev/tty.*
/dev/tty.wchusbserial5ABA0915851
picocom -b 1500000 -d 8 /dev/tty.wchusbserial5ABA0915851

Install system

↑ https://docs.radxa.com/rock5/rock5b/getting-started/install-os/boot_from_sd_card

[1] ttps://docs.radxa.com/rock5/rock5b/getting-started/install-os/boot_from_sd_card

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