Build Instructions

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• 1

  Prepare the Orange Pi Zero

  Mount the SSD drive inside the USB case then connect the case to the Orange Pi Zero. Connect a USB-to-Serial to the Serial Header on Orange Pi Zero board.

• 2

  Acquire some knowledge

  Watch a tutorial on how to do a file server with Raspberry PI3 to get aware of the steps necessary to implement on the Orange PI, which are basically:

  Read the Network Lessons.

  Read another tutorial on OPL Lan with Raspberry PI
  

• 3

  Download, install and configure the software

  Without getting into much details (there are good tutorials online) the following steps are necessary:
  

  • Download Armbian and write the image to the Micro SD card.
  • Using a terminal program like Putty (windows) or Screen (Linux) check that the machine is booting.
  • On the serial terminal setup the wireless network to be able to access the machine later without the serial adapter using SSH.
  • Install and configure DHCP server (link with good explanation)
  • Format the SSD drive. I have used ext4 as a filesystem to be able to use iso images larger than 4GB. Some tutorials advise to install NTFS (ntfs-3g) support for Linux.
  • Make SSD drive mountable on system startup (linkwith good explanation)
  • Install and configure SAMBA Server
  • Check that it is possible to accesse the file share from another computer

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