Am I flashing to the NVMe drive correctly?

[gagestinson]

Hello,

I am fairly new to Linux and am trying to set up a home networking system. I got the Orange Pi 5 since the Raspberry Pi 4 is unavailable. Plus the Orange Pi 5 has better specs anyway.

I am trying to get normal Ubuntu onto it instead of the Orange Pi 5 Ubuntu version on the Orange Pi website. I will list how I am trying to set this up below.

On my personal laptop, I use BelenaEtcher to flash this image onto a SD card. I then boot the Orange Pi from the SD card. I run the sudo dd if=/lib/u-boot-orangepi-rk3588/rkspi_loader.img of=/dev/mtdblock0 conv=notrunc command as it says to on the wiki. I then reboot. But upon reboot, the NVMe SSD I have is not available in the file system. It is shown when running sudo fdisk -l but it is not in the file explorer.

I have cleared the partitions on the mtdblock0 and on the NVMe. I have also tried incorporating this tutorial by flashing it to the mtblock0 as well as to the NVMe by simply altering the command given in that tutorial to sudo dd bs=1M if=ubuntu-22.04.2-preinstalled-desktop-arm64-orangepi5.img.xz of=/dev/nvme0n1 status=progress

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

[Joshua-Riek]

The os image is compressed, so you must uncompress it and pipe it to the dd utility like below.

xz -dc ubuntu-22.04.2-preinstalled-desktop-arm64-orangepi5.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/nvme0n1 bs=4k

I want to add Etcher to the os image by default at some point to make this easier for users, but I have not had the time to do so yet.