We may want to install lubuntu desktop/​server to SD card, here is a guide for you. This guide is for Linux platform only. We take Desktop as a example in this guide. If you are interested in Server, just replace the images with server one.

• Any Linux environment,​ we want sfdisk, dd, wget commands
• An SD Card(at least 2GB)

We assume card=/dev/sdd here

$card=/dev/sdd
$sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=${card} bs=1024 seek=544 count=128

$sudo dd if=u-boot-sunxi-with-spl-ct-20131102.bin of=$card bs=1024 seek=8

$ sudo fdisk /dev/sdd

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sdd: 7822 MB, 7822376960 bytes
241 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1022 cylinders, total 15278080 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x7b720c4c

 Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System

Command (m for help): n
Partition type:
 p   primary (0 primary, 0 extended, 4 free)
 e   extended
Select (default p): **p**
Partition number (1-4, default 1): 1
First sector (2048-15278079, default 2048): 
Using default value 2048
Last sector, +sectors or +size{K,M,G} (2048-15278079, default 15278079): +64M
Command (m for help): n

Partition type:
 p   primary (1 primary, 0 extended, 3 free)
 e   extended
Select (default p): p
Partition number (1-4, default 2): 
Using default value 2
First sector (133120-15278079, default 133120): 
Using default value 133120
Last sector, +sectors or +size{K,M,G} (133120-15278079, default 15278079): 
Using default value 15278079

Command (m for help): w
The partition table has been altered!

Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
Syncing disks.

$sudo mkfs.ext2 ${card}1
$sudo mkfs.ext4 ${card}2
	 

$mkdir /tmp/sdd1 /tmp/sdd2
$sudo mount -t ext2 ${card}1 /tmp/sdd1
$sudo mount -t ext4 ${card}2 /tmp/sdd2
$sudo tar -C /tmp/sdd1 -xvf bootfs-part1.tar.gz
$sudo tar -C /tmp/sdd2 -xvf rootfs-part2.tar.gz
$sync
$sudo umount /tmp/sdd1
$sudo umount /tmp/sdd2

If we want to change to VGA output default, we need to modify the script.bin at the 1st partition

$bin2fex script.bin 1.fex
$vim 1.fex (and change screen0_output_type to 4)
$fex2bin 1.fex script.bin

• http://github.com/cubieboard/linux-sunxi (cubie/sunxi-3.4 branch)

#modprobe bcmdhd