Customizing Cubietruck_Debian

Cubietruck Debian is a customized version of Debian for the Cubietruck created by Igor Pečovnik. See also, Cubian, a similar (and possibly more viable since it may have more people behind it) project.

It is not necessary to rebuild a Cubietruck_Debian image to do simple customizations like adding and modifying config files. Just do the following (in Linux):

1. Download one of the prebuilt images from here
2. Unzip the file
3. You should now have a file like Cubietruck_Debian_2.8_wheezy.raw (you can delete the zip now)
4. You are now ready to mount and modify the image:

# Create a loopback device that points to the first partition
# (the -o offset is essential!)
$ sudo losetup -v -f -o 1048576 Cubietruck_Debian_2.8_wheezy.raw
Loop device is /dev/loop0

# Mount the loop device
$ mkdir mnt
$ sudo mount /dev/loop0 mnt 

You should now be able to modify the filesystem in mnt/. When you are finished, just sudo umount mnt and then write the image to an SD card with dd bs=1M if=Cubietruck_Debian_2.8_wheezy.raw of=/dev/NAME_OF_SD_CARD

Notes

• It may be possible to use the build script in this project's repo to create an Ubuntu-based image. See this issue for details.