Install Linux on Android TV Box | amlogic s905x

welcome back guys it's dawn here from Nova spirit Tech and today we will be installing Linux on one of these Android TV boxes so let's get started so the version that I have is called the me Q mas now it doesn't really matter what brand or what version you get it's actually the internals that really matter now I managed to pick one of these guys up from gearbest for $36 I'll leave a link in the description below this in particular has a barrel connector HDMI Network port a headphone jack then two USBs an SD card now the SD card is very important because we need to use that to install our Linux partition this default is built with Android 7.1 but has probably the ugliest interface I have ever seen I don't know why they used Internet Explorer icon for browser meanwhile they are actually using Chrome it just bothers me a little what I mean by the internals of this guy this is actually using an M logic s 905 X now if you see my review on the Cadiz given to that actually uses the M logic s9 one to X and then their prior version which is of them version one that one uses the 905 just like this now most devices or any other devices with different brands that uses the M logic s 905 X you should be able to use this same method to turn it in jewel in this method that we're using will not delete the Android partition that's inside so basically you'll boot off the SD card and when you don't have the SD card inside I'll boot right into em so you still get to use Android OS alright so let's get started with installing this guy first we're gonna have to head over to this website which I'll leave a link in the description below now download the partition that you want whether it's being Debian or Ubuntu with the desktop without you know the server or not when you're done with that we need to extract the files and then load up Petra now in HR we would just load the SD card now that sticker has to be anything above 4 gigs once we load the SD card with this image we stick the SD card into the device now in the device itself you should have going into the menus an app called update or update and backup that's what we need to click as soon as you press that you want and use local storage in the local storage you'll find this one file called a M something I forgot what the exact name of it is but I am something that's the father you need to load and that's the only file that you'll see don't you click on that just hit OK and it's gonna go through a little bit of process and two reboots about after two reboots it's gonna start booting from the SD card now from the SD card the first boot it's not gonna get you into any menus or anything it's using arm in first thing it's gonna ask you to do is login as root so the root user is root obviously and the password is one two three four as soon as you log in it's gonna ask you to change a password right away once you're done with that it's gonna ask you to make a new user account which is fine because that's the main user you're gonna be logging in but so name it whatever you want to name it and then give it a password once you're done with that it's gonna automatically reboot load right into the Ubuntu desktop if you got the desktop installed or the server installed and that's it that's installing Linux on to this whole thing now there's some tricks and tips and stuff like that to get other stuff going now if you got a remote or the Wi-Fi is not working there are ways to get it working now in my particular model Wi-Fi was not working whatsoever and they didn't have the drivers baked into the kernel anything so I couldn't even get the Wi-Fi working then bother me much because I was gonna use the ethernet cable anyway so moving forward I'm going to leave a link to the forum what the troubleshooting steps are to get certain specific things working now if you have a remote you could just loading that this path and you have a different screen resolution you could just modify a little line inside the HDMI that Sh file now lastly I started this whole new benchmarking thing that everybody likes I guess which is mining and I'm pretty sure I already feel the comments you guys gonna ask me what is the mining speed on this guy Mining magic on now I already installed the app loaded it up and on four cores it runs about thirteen point seven seven which is not that much faster than Raspberry Pi 3 so for 35 bucks 36 bucks you're getting more hash rate it's a faster processor you're just losing out on you know the GPIO pins and everything this is more like a desktop slash server a micro server that you could use for your home well you guys enjoyed this video please hit that like button if you guys have any questions about this hit up in the comments below guys are new to this channel hit that little subscribe button and also don't forget to hit that little notification bell icon so you know when the next video is gonna be out and as the same minor cave hack till it hurts

Channel: Novaspirit Tech

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Length: 4min 38sec (278 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 16 2017