Image Running on Banana Pi M2 Ultra

m.traeumner · February 17, 2019, 8:01pm

NethServer Version: 7.6
Hi,
I want to setup a banana pi m2u, but the raspberry pi image doesn’t work. Only red LED. Also tried an Ubuntu image for bpi m2u, this works.
It’s my first arm and I don’t know anything about installing it, can somebody give me tips, what I have to do to install nethserver? Here is a short overview of the Hardware:
http://wiki.banana-pi.org/Banana_Pi_BPI-M2U#Hardware_spec
Thanks in advance Michael.

pike · February 17, 2019, 8:42pm

AFAIK Raspberry Pi uses BCM SoC. Banana Pi use… another kind of SoC (Allwinner R40/V40).
End of the game…

mrmarkuz · February 17, 2019, 11:12pm

I found a centos image for the banana pi.

After starting up centos you may try to install nethserver arm:

yum install http://mirror.nethserver.org/nethserver/7.6.1810/arm-base/armhfp/Packages/nethserver-release-7-11.ns7.noarch.rpm

And like described in the install docs or in the wiki:

nethserver-install

It’s an older image and I never tested it (no hardware) but it should be a good starting point.

m.traeumner · February 18, 2019, 8:45am

Thanks, I will try this. Will be back with a result next days.

m.traeumner · February 20, 2019, 10:34pm

Hi Markus,
tested an image from

this works, my next step is installing nethserver on it.

m.traeumner · February 21, 2019, 7:53pm

Nethserver is running on banana pi m2 ultra

I only wonder that it only shows a 6,67 GB root partition. I’ve put the CentOS Image to a 64 GB SD-Card and after booting CentOS from SD-Card I installed nethserver.

mrmarkuz · February 21, 2019, 8:08pm

Great that it works!

Just execute following command to use the whole space:

rootfs-expand

m.traeumner · February 21, 2019, 8:30pm

Thanks Markus, I had to install cloud-utils-growpart before, but after that it runs perfectly.