wanted to have a ownCloud-server at home to make sure nobody can read it. I had a Raspberry Pi already, but when I installed it it was to slow for me, so I wanted another solution that was also low on energy-usage. So after a search I found the PcDuino. I ordered the PcDuino V1. This is a small (twice a Pi) system with:

• 1 Ghz single-core CPU
• 1 GB RAM
• 2 GB Flash
• HDMI
• Ethernet
• 2x USB

As I understood from the site it is a system with Ubuntu, so easily transferable to a small, debian-based server for only 68 euro with casing. There is even a version with WIFI.
When I booted the system I found out it ran Arch Linux in stead of Ubuntu. So I installed Ubuntu from the image they provide on their website. To install you need a USB-stick (>1GB), a micro-SD-card and 3 files from their website. These are the newest kernel-image, Ubuntu-image and update.sh-script which can all be downloaded from the download-page. There are 2 options for the kernel-image. As I don’t have any micro-SD-ports on my other machines I used the kernel-image for Win32DiskImager/dd. In the following part I describe the steps to install the image.

• Boot the PcDuino
• Copy the 3 downloaded files to the root of the USB-stick
• Put the USB-stick and Micro-SD-card in the PcDuino
• Go to the terminal with Ctrl+Alt+F1
• Login with username root and password root

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