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Attention : dd is a powerful command that overright anything without any warning. If you miswrote your command, you may erase your main disk. All data in the sd-card will be removed.  

 
Attention : dd est une commande puissante qui réécrit les données sans aucun avertissement. Si vous vous trompez dans la commande, vous pourriez effacer votre disque principal. Toutes les données dans la carte sd seront supprimées.  

### Introduction
Single board computers come in many different architectures. Each of them boots its own way, which makes it impossible create a standard process, and therefore impossible to provide a Live ISO with an installer software.
Yet, it is possible to build an image of an installed system and distribute it, with the following drawbacks: one pre-defined root password, an existing default user with its password, and other configurations that will need to be done manually.
 
The image has been reduced to a minimum in order to allow a faster download and to fit on any micro-sd card, but it is possible to extend the main partition after the install and use the full capacity of the sd-card.
 
### Burning image
Depending on the device you will use on your PC, a micro-sd card can be accessible under different paths — **generally** under `/dev/mmcblo0` — and in read and write access only for root.
Attention : dd is a powerful command that overwrite anything without any warning. If you miswrote your command, you may erase your main disk. All data in the sd-card will be removed.  
 
```
dd if=./Mageia-7-bananaPro1.img of=/dev/mmcblk0
```
 
This could take a long time and look like your system is frozen, but it is not. You can display a progress bar with the `pv` command (from the `pv` package). The command to burn the image is different:
 
```
dd if=./Mageia-7-bananaPro1.img | pv -s $(ls -l ./Mageia-7-bananaPro1.img | cut -d ' ' -f 5) | dd of=/dev/mmcblk0
```
Instead of the command line, you can use Isodumper.
 
### Extending the partition
Mageia's image for the Banana Pro has two storage areas: the first one is a non partitioned space at the beginning of the image and containing the uboot bootloade; the second one is an ext4 root partition.
 
It is possible to extend this partition to fit the full size of the sd-card, but you will have to install the `cloud-utils-growpart` package first.
 
```
e2fsck -f /dev/mmcblk0p1
LC_ALL=C growpart /dev/mmcblk0 1
resize2fs /dev/mmcblk0p1
sync
```
 
### First connexion and credentials
On your first connexion, it is recommended to connect to your Banana Pro with a serial link in order to configure ssh. After that, you will be able to connect to it through the network.
 
The default `root` password is `ProR00t`. The default user is `banana` and its password is `bananaPro`.
It is **highly recommended** to delete this default user and to change the root password, for safety reasons.