OrangePi/Installing

Mac

Get The Image

Your first task is to figure out which version of the Orange Pi you have, since there are about a dozen different versions. Once you find your version, pick an OS and download the image from here: http://www.orangepi.org/downloadresources/

Extract the Image

Extract the .xz file using Keka (on Mac)

Prepare SD Card

Plug in an SD card and run diskutil list to see the sd card:

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS CRONUS                  999.3 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3

/dev/disk1 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *15.9 GB    disk1
   1:             Windows_FAT_32 NO NAME                 64.0 MB    disk1s1
   2:                      Linux                         7.3 GB     disk1s2

Unmount it:

diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk1

Write Image to SD Card

For the last step, you use dd (disk formatter utility) to write that image to your SD card:

$ time dd bs=1m if=orangepi-plus-debian-server-card-v0.9.img of=/dev/disk1
925+0 records in
925+0 records out
969932800 bytes transferred in 440.491904 secs (2201931 bytes/sec)

real	7m21.021s
user	0m0.008s
sys	0m17.441s

The above command took X minutes on my system.