**Setting Up Tinker OS 1.8**
We're going to scroll down and get Tinker OS Debian version 1.8, you can download it right there so I have everything downloaded and installed. I also have Tinker OS 1.8 extracted on my desktop. I have my 16 GB SD card ready to be flashed, so we need an SD card to boot but after it runs the boot files off the SD card, your operating system will be running from your external drive, whether it's a USB or an external hard drive.
**Using Win32 Dis Imager**
We're going to open up win32 dis imager in the device drop down menu and make sure we have our SD card chosen. Mine is Drive F. Click on the blue folder, I'm going to navigate my desktop or my Tinkerboard 1.8 version, just double-click, and we're going to write it to the SD card. Yes, so make sure your target device is your SD card. Click yes now, this could take a little while depending on how fast your SD card is. Just let it finish up.
**Flashing the Image**
As you can see, I'm writing at almost 10 megabytes per second, that's pretty slow for this class 10 card but I'm running from a USB 2.0 drive with an older card reader so I'll show you the difference here when we write this image to the hard drive. Okay, the flash was successful. You might get a prompt like this because Windows can't read half of this partition. We're just going to click cancel, cancel now.
**Configuring the SD Card**
Now what we need to do is navigate to our freshly flashed SD card Drive F, EXT Linux and our ex, linux.config, C NF. We're going to right-click and open with notepad++. From here, all we're going to do is change the mmcblk0 P2 to sda2 file. Save, we're going to exit out of here now.
**Flashing the Image to the External Drive**
We need to flash that same image to our USB drive or our hard drive, whatever you're using. I'm going to plug in my 1 TB hard drive now taking my SD card out so from here make sure you know what Drive letter this is mine is F, 1TB EX, that's the name of my one terabyte external hard drive. We're going to do the same thing make sure you choose your external hard driver USB M's Drive F if you've left win32 dis imager up you should already have the image chosen we're just flashing that 1.8 Tinker OS to the hard drive now.
**Finalizing the Setup**
I'm going to click right, yes and as you can see at the bottom instead of 10 megabytes a second we're writing at 110 megabytes a second much faster now this doesn't mean you're going to get these kind of read and write speeds from the USB 2.0 port on the Tinker board but it's going to be a lot faster than the SD card itself finished up super quick.
**Booting Up the Tinker Board**
All we need to do is take our SD card that we flashed with Tinker OS 1.8 plug it into the Tinker board I'm also going to unplug my hard drive that I just flashed and plug it into to the Tinker board now we're going to be moving over there we're going to boot this up and we'll be running Tinker Os from an external hard drive.
**Booting Up with a Hard Drive**
All right now that we have our SD card flashed and our hard drive or USB whatever you're using it's time to power up the Tinker board but first we need to insert our SD card and then we need to plug in our USB drive if you use the USB drive and you just plug it in like that and power it on it'll start booting up from the USB you're using a hard drive just plug it right into one of the free USB 2.0 ports so I'm using this one tab hard drive I'm going to go ahead and plug in the power, most USB hard drives have a light and you'll see it flash a few times it's going to resize the file system on the hard drive and boot up into the desktop.
**First Boot**
Now the first boot could take a little while just let it sit and it'll boot up so here's Tinker OS 1.8, it's based on Debian stretch it's actually pretty stable and I've had really good luck installing different applications and testing things out so I'm going to show you right now that we are running from the external hard drive I have a 16 gigabyte SD card in here but as you can see we have 878.4040 watching if you could hit that like button and subscribe cuz I got a lot more coming if you guys want to see anything else let me know in the comments below and I'll do my best to help you out.
"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey what's going on guys it's ETA Prime back here again today I'm going to show you how to run Tinker OS on your tinkerboard from an external hard drive or a USB thumb drive you will still need the SD card flashed and installed right here I have an external 1 tbte USB 3.0 Drive I definitely recommend using a power drive but I don't have one you could also substitute it with a powered Hub this is a USB 3.0 128 G sand dis USB thumb drive and it works almost as well it wres at about 60 megab a second but the hard drive wres a lot faster let's go ahead and get started this is fairly simple we're going to be moving over to the PC I'm going to show you how to flash Tinker OS to the SD card in your drive of choice all right guys let's get right into it it's pretty simple to do you're going to need a few things I'm going to be installing this to a 1 tbte external hard drive I definitely recommend using a powered Hub with this once in a while I have had my hard drive just stop working while running Tinker OS I prefer using a USB 3.0 stick 128 GB USB 3.0 stick on Amazon was about 30 bucks definitely worth it it's pretty fast too but for this tutorial I'm going to be using a hard drive because I know everybody wants as much space as they can get first thing we're going to need to do is go to Google and download win32 two dis imager you could also use etcher but etcher has a hard time finding a hard drive like an external hard drive if you're using a USB stick you can definitely use etcher so go ahead and download this install it next thing notepad++ I definitely recommend downloading this if you're editing any kind of files at all this is just the goto notepad for me the built-in Windows notepad doesn't work well grab this free to use easy to download last thing you'll need is Tinker OS so go to the tinkerboard website click on support driver and tools please choose others others we're going to scroll down and get Tinker OS Debian version 1.8 you can download it right there so I have everything downloaded and installed I also have Tinker OS 1.8 extracted on my desktop I have my 16 gab SD card right here ready to be flashed so we have to have an SD card to boot but after it runs the boot files off the SD card your operating system will be running from your external drive be it a USB or an external hard drive so we're going to open up win32 dis imager in the the device drop down make sure you have your SD card chosen mine is Drive F click on the blue folder I'm going to navigate my desktop or my tinkerboard 1.8 version is just double click and we're going to write it to the SD card yes so make sure your target device is your SD card click yes now this could take a little while depending on how fast your SD card is just let it finish up so as you can see I'm writing at almost 10 megabytes a second that's pretty slow for this class 10 card but I'm running from a USB 2.0 drive with an older card reader so I'll show you the difference here when we write this image to the hard drive okay the flash was successful you might get a prompt like this because Windows can't read half of this partition we're just going to click cancel cancel now now what we need to do is navigate to our freshly flashed SD card Drive F EXT Linux and our ex linux. config C NF we're going to rightclick and open with notepad++ from here all we're going to do is change the mmcblk0 P2 to sda2 file save we're going to exit out of here now we need to flash that same image to our USB drive or our hard drive whatever you're using so I'm going to plug in my one TB hard drive now taking my SD card out so from here make sure you know what Drive letter this is mine is f 1tb ex that's the name of my one terabyte external hard drive we're going to do the same thing make sure you choose your external hard driver USB M's Drive F if you've left win32 dis imager up you should already have the image chosen we're just flashing that 1.8 Tinker OS to the hard drive now I'm going to click right yes and as you can see at the bottom instead of 10 megabytes a second we're writing at 110 megabytes a second much faster now this doesn't mean you're going to get these kind of read and write speeds from the USB 2.0 port on the Tinker board but it's going to be a lot faster than the SD card itself finished up super quick all we need to do is take our SD card that we flashed with Tinker OS 1.8 plug it into the Tinker board I'm also going to unplug my hard drive that I just flashed and plug it into to the Tinker board now we're going to be moving over there we're going to boot this up and we'll be running Tinker Os from an external hard drive all right now that we have our SD card flashed and our hard drive or USB whatever you're using it's time to power up the Tinker board but first we need to insert our SD card and then we need to plug in our USB drive if you use the USB drive and you just plug it in like that and power it on it'll start booting up from the USB you're using a hard drive just plug it right into one of the free USB 2.0 ports so I'm using this one tab hard drive I'm going to go ahead and plug in the power most USB hard drives have a light and you'll see it flash a few times it's going to resize the file system on the hard drive and boot up into the desktop now the first boot could take a little while just let it sit and it'll boot up so here's the first boot it's just going to resize the file system on the external hard drive or USB whatever you're using and then boot right to the desktop so here's Tinker OS 1.8 it's based on Debian stretch it's actually pretty stable and I've had really good luck installing different applications and testing things out so I'm going to show you right now that we are running from the external hard drive I have a 16 gigabyte SD card in here but as you can see we have 878.4040 watching if you could hit that like button and subscribe cuz I got a lot more coming if you guys want to see anything else with the tinkerboard let me know in the comments below and like always thanks for watchinghey what's going on guys it's ETA Prime back here again today I'm going to show you how to run Tinker OS on your tinkerboard from an external hard drive or a USB thumb drive you will still need the SD card flashed and installed right here I have an external 1 tbte USB 3.0 Drive I definitely recommend using a power drive but I don't have one you could also substitute it with a powered Hub this is a USB 3.0 128 G sand dis USB thumb drive and it works almost as well it wres at about 60 megab a second but the hard drive wres a lot faster let's go ahead and get started this is fairly simple we're going to be moving over to the PC I'm going to show you how to flash Tinker OS to the SD card in your drive of choice all right guys let's get right into it it's pretty simple to do you're going to need a few things I'm going to be installing this to a 1 tbte external hard drive I definitely recommend using a powered Hub with this once in a while I have had my hard drive just stop working while running Tinker OS I prefer using a USB 3.0 stick 128 GB USB 3.0 stick on Amazon was about 30 bucks definitely worth it it's pretty fast too but for this tutorial I'm going to be using a hard drive because I know everybody wants as much space as they can get first thing we're going to need to do is go to Google and download win32 two dis imager you could also use etcher but etcher has a hard time finding a hard drive like an external hard drive if you're using a USB stick you can definitely use etcher so go ahead and download this install it next thing notepad++ I definitely recommend downloading this if you're editing any kind of files at all this is just the goto notepad for me the built-in Windows notepad doesn't work well grab this free to use easy to download last thing you'll need is Tinker OS so go to the tinkerboard website click on support driver and tools please choose others others we're going to scroll down and get Tinker OS Debian version 1.8 you can download it right there so I have everything downloaded and installed I also have Tinker OS 1.8 extracted on my desktop I have my 16 gab SD card right here ready to be flashed so we have to have an SD card to boot but after it runs the boot files off the SD card your operating system will be running from your external drive be it a USB or an external hard drive so we're going to open up win32 dis imager in the the device drop down make sure you have your SD card chosen mine is Drive F click on the blue folder I'm going to navigate my desktop or my tinkerboard 1.8 version is just double click and we're going to write it to the SD card yes so make sure your target device is your SD card click yes now this could take a little while depending on how fast your SD card is just let it finish up so as you can see I'm writing at almost 10 megabytes a second that's pretty slow for this class 10 card but I'm running from a USB 2.0 drive with an older card reader so I'll show you the difference here when we write this image to the hard drive okay the flash was successful you might get a prompt like this because Windows can't read half of this partition we're just going to click cancel cancel now now what we need to do is navigate to our freshly flashed SD card Drive F EXT Linux and our ex linux. config C NF we're going to rightclick and open with notepad++ from here all we're going to do is change the mmcblk0 P2 to sda2 file save we're going to exit out of here now we need to flash that same image to our USB drive or our hard drive whatever you're using so I'm going to plug in my one TB hard drive now taking my SD card out so from here make sure you know what Drive letter this is mine is f 1tb ex that's the name of my one terabyte external hard drive we're going to do the same thing make sure you choose your external hard driver USB M's Drive F if you've left win32 dis imager up you should already have the image chosen we're just flashing that 1.8 Tinker OS to the hard drive now I'm going to click right yes and as you can see at the bottom instead of 10 megabytes a second we're writing at 110 megabytes a second much faster now this doesn't mean you're going to get these kind of read and write speeds from the USB 2.0 port on the Tinker board but it's going to be a lot faster than the SD card itself finished up super quick all we need to do is take our SD card that we flashed with Tinker OS 1.8 plug it into the Tinker board I'm also going to unplug my hard drive that I just flashed and plug it into to the Tinker board now we're going to be moving over there we're going to boot this up and we'll be running Tinker Os from an external hard drive all right now that we have our SD card flashed and our hard drive or USB whatever you're using it's time to power up the Tinker board but first we need to insert our SD card and then we need to plug in our USB drive if you use the USB drive and you just plug it in like that and power it on it'll start booting up from the USB you're using a hard drive just plug it right into one of the free USB 2.0 ports so I'm using this one tab hard drive I'm going to go ahead and plug in the power most USB hard drives have a light and you'll see it flash a few times it's going to resize the file system on the hard drive and boot up into the desktop now the first boot could take a little while just let it sit and it'll boot up so here's the first boot it's just going to resize the file system on the external hard drive or USB whatever you're using and then boot right to the desktop so here's Tinker OS 1.8 it's based on Debian stretch it's actually pretty stable and I've had really good luck installing different applications and testing things out so I'm going to show you right now that we are running from the external hard drive I have a 16 gigabyte SD card in here but as you can see we have 878.4040 watching if you could hit that like button and subscribe cuz I got a lot more coming if you guys want to see anything else with the tinkerboard let me know in the comments below and like always thanks for watching\n"
