12-18-2017, 08:14 AM
Hi all.
I've been looking at buying an Odroid XU4 for having as home server (little bit of openHAB, little bit of Owncloud, maybe other stuff) and just today found the ROCK64 which seems like a very nice alternative. I got some initial questions though that I can't seem to find any obvious answers to.
I want to run this headless. I want a Debian Stretch image which least possible footprint, just so that I can SSH into it and install whatever I need. Obviously I'm going for the eMMC alternative. Is it just a question of downloading the Strech minimal image from http://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/ROCK64_...re_Release, flashing it to the card (using USB-eMMC adapter), booting up and SSH:ing in? Kinda confusing that some images on the wiki says "microSD Boot" and some says "microSD to eMMC", is there really any difference or do they all work on eMMC as well?
Also, since the form factor looks almost identical to rPI3, does it mean that it fits in rPI3 cases? Or do I need to buy the (bulky looking) "acrylic open enclosure"? The cases at c4labs.net looks really great but it's supposed to be in a closet out of way so I'd rather buy something that just cheap and effective :-)
/Daniel
I've been looking at buying an Odroid XU4 for having as home server (little bit of openHAB, little bit of Owncloud, maybe other stuff) and just today found the ROCK64 which seems like a very nice alternative. I got some initial questions though that I can't seem to find any obvious answers to.
I want to run this headless. I want a Debian Stretch image which least possible footprint, just so that I can SSH into it and install whatever I need. Obviously I'm going for the eMMC alternative. Is it just a question of downloading the Strech minimal image from http://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/ROCK64_...re_Release, flashing it to the card (using USB-eMMC adapter), booting up and SSH:ing in? Kinda confusing that some images on the wiki says "microSD Boot" and some says "microSD to eMMC", is there really any difference or do they all work on eMMC as well?
Also, since the form factor looks almost identical to rPI3, does it mean that it fits in rPI3 cases? Or do I need to buy the (bulky looking) "acrylic open enclosure"? The cases at c4labs.net looks really great but it's supposed to be in a closet out of way so I'd rather buy something that just cheap and effective :-)
/Daniel