This is a collection of scripts that are used to build a Ubuntu 20.04 preinstalled desktop/server image for the Raspberry Pi Zero 2W, 3, 4, and 400.
To setup the build environment for the Ubuntu 20.04 image creation, a Linux host with the following configuration is recommended. A host machine with adequate processing power and disk space is ideal as the build process can be severial gigabytes in size and can take alot of time.
- Intel Core i7 CPU (>= 8 cores)
- Strong internet connection
- 30 GB free disk space
- 16 GB RAM
Please install the below packages on your host machine:
sudo apt-get install -y build-essential gcc-aarch64-linux-gnu bison \
qemu-user-static qemu-system-arm qemu-efi u-boot-tools binfmt-support \
debootstrap flex libssl-dev bc rsync kmod cpio xz-utils fakeroot parted \
udev dosfstools uuid-runtime grub-pc
To checkout the source and build:
git clone https://github.com/Joshua-Riek/ubuntu-raspberry-pi.git
cd ubuntu-raspberry-pi
sudo ./build.sh
To run the Ubuntu 20.04 preinstalled image in a virtual machine:
sudo ./qemu.sh images/ubuntu-20.04-preinstalled-server-arm64-rpi.img.xz
There are two predefined users on the system: ubuntu and root. The password for each is root.
Ubuntu 20.04.5 TLS raspberry-pi tty1
raspberry-pi login: root
Password: root
To flash the Ubuntu 20.04 preinstalled image to removable media:
xz -dc images/ubuntu-20.04-preinstalled-desktop-arm64-rpi.tar.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX bs=4k
This assumes that the removable media is added as /dev/sdX and all it’s partitions are unmounted.