04-28-2019, 07:37 PM
Greetings,
I am about to be the proud owner of a RockPro64 SBC (It's due to arrive tomorrow!).
My immediate goals are to use it as a Smart TV set-top box (for streaming) and/or an NAS server for my local network, besides the fun of playing around with it.
I'm aware that Android-TV is not the best host for an NAS server and plan on setting up alternative boot scenarios to allow for independent testing of each use.
The problem is that while linux-extractable archives (*,gz) for Android-TV are findable, the only other linux images I could find were buried inside a *.xz archive that apparently requires 7zip (a Windows executable) to extract.
It would probably be possible to run 7zip under WINE to extract the .xz archives, but that's a last resort.
All my systems are (gentoo) linux, is there a set of linux images that are archived using a format that I can read?
I have no overwhelming preference as to which linux, but the LXDE desktop is familiar so Ubuntu would be convenient.
Is there a list of RockPro64 linux images that can be extracted on linux?
Thanks for your time.
Brett K. Heath
I am about to be the proud owner of a RockPro64 SBC (It's due to arrive tomorrow!).
My immediate goals are to use it as a Smart TV set-top box (for streaming) and/or an NAS server for my local network, besides the fun of playing around with it.
I'm aware that Android-TV is not the best host for an NAS server and plan on setting up alternative boot scenarios to allow for independent testing of each use.
The problem is that while linux-extractable archives (*,gz) for Android-TV are findable, the only other linux images I could find were buried inside a *.xz archive that apparently requires 7zip (a Windows executable) to extract.
It would probably be possible to run 7zip under WINE to extract the .xz archives, but that's a last resort.
All my systems are (gentoo) linux, is there a set of linux images that are archived using a format that I can read?
I have no overwhelming preference as to which linux, but the LXDE desktop is familiar so Ubuntu would be convenient.
Is there a list of RockPro64 linux images that can be extracted on linux?
Thanks for your time.
Brett K. Heath
