Thank you for your valuable comment about using tar instead for dd. It makes a lot of sense.

Your instructions say to create your file system using mkfs.ext4 and then you completely overwrite that using dd. If you are going to copy the filesystem using dd, then you did not need to create a file system. It does not make sense.

Also, if your partition was 15G, then your resulting file system is the size of nandb, around 2G, which is not big enough to put very much software on, which is why you probably made a 15G root partition in the first place.

One should use tar, something like this:

# cd /mnt/nandb ; tar cf – . | ( cd /mnt/sda1; tar xf – )

The above command will copy the directory tree from nandb to sda1, without destroying the file system that you just created using mkfs, and allow use of the whole new root partition.

Hello Vitalii… You are quite right there! It’s a typo. Thank you. There are 3 USB ports on the Cubietruck: 2xUSB 2.0/1xMini USB 2.0.

So far I have only installed Fedora on SD and it went without problems – until I tried to update the newly installed distro! No problems with HDMI. I do not use VGA. I have tried to install the Android and both the Lubuntu distro’s onto the NAND flash and again without any problems. There should not be a big difference between installing to NAND, SD or even HDD.

I tried to install Lubuntu in SD, but I don`t get video. Neither HDMI or VGA. Do you know if this is an expected behavior when installing in SD or I did something wrong. Thanks.