Chunk-sized tutorial is back! In the previous part, we booted into Armbian and watched it all via a USB-to-serial console. But that was just the beginning, since we need to set it up before it becomes useful.
Step 1: Initial Armbian setup
- root password: Generate some from your password manager and paste it twice.
- Live in the fast lane: Consider the warning that this is only an automated build for developers and think to yourself “Well, I already have this Neo3, why not make it do some work?”
- PS: using something fully supported would be a more reasonable idea.
- Select your shell: either bash or zsh are fine.
- Create a standard user: Again make use of your password manager and create the user that will be doing the actual backups.
Step 2: Reboot to verify
After restarting, you might be greeted with a root filesystem journal error. In other words, the SD card went bad and corrupted the data. Looks like it is time to go back to the first part of the tutorial and try again with a different SD card!
See you there!