Hi all

 

I have a project where I'll be deploying the same configuration (including IP addresses) to a multiple Orange Pi Zeros. There will be some slight differences (hostname, information in one script) but largely identical.

 

I was thinking about using a Linux VM to run a script that changes a base image (from a pre-set up machine) makes the changes and burns an image onto microsd. Is this a viable approach? Will I need to change anything else (MAC address related stuff?)

 

Cheers! 

I phrased this question badly   In other words:

 

Can I simply copy a working image between Orange Pis? Are there things I would need to change?

So I asked on IRC and knowledgeable people told me that the answer is: Yes, it should be fine to copy images across Orange Pi Zeros as uboot should (correctly as of a week ago) generate a new MAC address FOR ETHERNET based on the hash of a unique SOC identifier. So you will have to change IP configuration/host names as necessary, but apart from that no issues. I'll report further when I actually receive my Pi0s.

 

FOR WI-FI, check the post by @tkaiser below that shows where a random mac is hardcoded at first run.

 

Happy cloning people!

 

@tkaiser @Igor - could we mark this thread as solved?

So I asked on IRC and knowledgeable people told me that the answer is: Yes, it should be fine to copy images across Orange Pi Zeros as uboot should (as of a week ago) generate a new MAC address based on the hash of a unique SOC identifier. So you will have to change IP configuration/host names as necessary, but apart from that no issues. I'll report further when I actually receive my Pi0s.

 

Then please have a look at https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib/blob/master/scripts/firstrun#L134 first.

 

People on linux-sunxi IRC might have been told you how situation with latest and greatest mainline u-boot/kernel might look like so you know what to expect if Armbian provides OS images with mainline kernel in a few months that are supported (our nightly builds aren't and are dedicated to developers and not end users -- but since we never get any useful feedback we could also stop to provide them at all).

Then please have a look at https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib/blob/master/scripts/firstrun#L134 first.

 

People on linux-sunxi IRC might have been told you how situation with latest and greatest mainline u-boot/kernel might look like so you know what to expect if Armbian provides OS images with mainline kernel in a few months that are supported (our nightly builds aren't and are dedicated to developers and not end users -- but since we never get any useful feedback we could also stop to provide them at all).

 

ah, saw your response over there first OK, well I've been building my own Armbian images (build system's quite addictive). So I guess I'll have this advantage for a while. If I revert back to legacy then I can use the code in the firstrun script to generate sane MAC addresses for Allwinner. Cheers!

ah, saw your response over there first OK, well I've been building my own Armbian images (build system's quite addictive). So I guess I'll have this advantage for a while. If I revert back to legacy then I can use the code in the firstrun script to generate sane MAC addresses for Allwinner. Cheers!

 

Sorry, I overlooked that you were asking about Ethernet and not Wi-Fi. With Ethernet MAC address is always based on SoC's SID

Sorry, I overlooked that you were asking about Ethernet and not Wi-Fi. With Ethernet MAC address is always based on SoC's SID

 

Ha! No probs sir. I think there needs to be some forum add on that that for the next few months gently removes posts that contain both "Wi-Fi" and "OPi0". Think of the heartache avoided