PearlOS XFCE4 for Odroid C1 Files

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Once file is uncompressed it will be 4.3 gigs.



You will need a 8-64 GIG microSD card to write this image to.


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Make sure to use a #10 microSD card do not use a #4 card.

From my experience the #10 #10 Sandisk Ultra is the best.

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Default username = odroid  password = odroid

Root password = odroid


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On a Mac, 

First, verify the path to your SD card. You can do this by running the following command from terminal:

diskutil list

The output shows a list of disks currently mounted on the system. Here's the relevant line from my output:

/dev/disk3
#:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *8.0 GB     disk3
1:                 DOS_FAT_32 RPISDCARD               8.0 GB     disk3s1

In this case I can verify /dev/disk3 is my SD card because the TYPE, NAME and SIZE values are correct.

If you have an existing partition on the disk you may need to unmount it, otherwise you'll get a "Resource busy" error message when you try to write the image.

diskutil unmount /dev/disk3s1

Now to write the image file to the disk. Note the 'r' added to rdisk3 which drastically improves write performance by telling dd to operate in raw disk mode:

sudo dd if=RetroPieImage_ver2.3.img of=/dev/rdisk3 bs=1m

Depending on the size of your SDcard this may take a while. You can press CTRL+T to see the current status of dd. As an example for my Samsung 8GB SD card the write speed was 12MB/s the command took 11mins to complete.



On Linux,

Same as above for Mac example except instead of using "diskutil" as command to list disks available use "fdisk -l".
Also linux uses the disk name without the r before it. An example would be "/dev/mmcblk0" or "/dev/sdX".

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To decompress archive 
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unxz Pearl-OdroidC1-jessie-xfce4-10-08-2016.img.xz


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You should be about to combine decompress and write image with this command
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sudo xzcat Pearl-OdroidC1-jessie-xfce4-10-08-2016.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdg


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Then to burn downloaded image to your microSD card:
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sudo dd if=/Pearl-OdroidC1-jessie-xfce4-10-08-2016.img of=/dev/mmcblk0?? bs=4M

or

sudo dd if=/Pearl-OdroidC1-jessie-xfce4-10-08-2016.img of=/dev/sdX bs=4M



Then just put microSD in your Odroid C1+ ...thats it.


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-->>> Pearl will automatically expand your microSD card on first boot <<<-----

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Note: We have resolution set for 1360x768

(The ODROID C1+ default res is 1080p...it runs the best at this setting)



To change resolution Open Terminal 

sudo xdg-open /media/boot/boot.ini

The top of that file will look like below. Simply leave just one uncommented.
As you see it's 1360x768 currently.


ODROIDC-UBOOT-CONFIG

# Possible screen resolutions
# Uncomment only a single Line! The line with setenv written.
# At least one mode must be selected.

# setenv m "vga"          	# 640x480
# setenv m "480p"         	# 720x480
# setenv m "576p"         	# 720x576
# setenv m "800x480p60hz" 	# 800x480
# setenv m "800x600p60hz" 	# 800x600
# setenv m "1024x600p60hz"	# 1024x600
# setenv m "1024x768p60hz"	# 1024x768
setenv m "1360x768p60hz" 	# 1360x768
# setenv m "1440x900p60hz"	# 1440x900
# setenv m "1600x900p60hz"	# 1600x900
# setenv m "1680x1050p60hz"	# 1680x1050
# setenv m "720p"         	# 720p 1280x720
# setenv m "800p"         	# 1280x800
# setenv m "sxga"         	# 1280x1024
# setenv m "1080i50hz"          # 1080I@50Hz
# setenv m "1080p24hz"          # 1080P@24Hz
# setenv m "1080p50hz"          # 1080P@50Hz
# setenv m "1080p"                # 1080P@60Hz   <<<---- default 
# setenv m "1920x1200"    	# 1920x1200


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TO USE KODI MEDIA CENTER


Altho KODI will open and play audio if you open it while in an XFCE4 session,
you will not get any video. Logout and back in under Kodi session.
Change session on the top right panel at login screen.


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 --------------> Backing Up Your microSD card <---------------------



On Linux, to make a copy of your exsisting microSD card:

dd if=/dev/??mmcblk0?? of=/name-of-your-custum-image.img bs=1M


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