# How to install Debian?

**URL:** <https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/how-to-install-debian/8467>\
**Category:** Firmware and Apps\
**Created:** [May 16, 2022, 12:30pm UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/how-to-install-debian/8467 "2022-05-16T12:30:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Pasta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@Pasta](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/Pasta)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2022, 12:30pm UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/how-to-install-debian/8467/1 "2022-05-16T12:30:27Z")

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How to install Debian in clockworkpi-a06?

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**Author:** ![Steven\_Boger](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.clockworkpi.com/steven_boger/32/6184_2.png) [@Steven\_Boger](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/Steven_Boger)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2022, 8:23pm UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/how-to-install-debian/8467/2 "2022-05-16T20:23:12Z")

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Welcome! Think of DevTerm like a portable raspberry pi. It’s not a laptop, and you can’t just install third-party OS’s on it.

It’s a novel little “terminal” designed for hardware and software hackers. It has no built-in storage - you write a pre-configured image of the OS to a SD card and boot from the card.

ClockworkPi offers an Armbian build - that _is_ Debian. And Manjaro Arm is building devterm-a06 beta releases in the Arch Linux flavor. That’s it. No other distros work, period.

Armbian A06 image: [http://dl.clockworkpi.com/DevTerm\_A06\_v0.1a.img.bz2](http://dl.clockworkpi.com/DevTerm_A06_v0.1a.img.bz2)  
Manjaro Arm A06 images: [Releases · manjaro-arm/clockworkpi-a06-images · GitHub](https://github.com/manjaro-arm/clockworkpi-a06-images/releases)

(Or are you asking how to write a \*.img file to an SD card?)

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**Author:** ![lonewsk](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.clockworkpi.com/lonewsk/32/4655_2.png) [@lonewsk](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/lonewsk)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2022, 5:58pm UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/how-to-install-debian/8467/3 "2022-05-17T17:58:54Z")

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There’s also an Arch Linux build for those who prefer it over Manjaro.

[https://github.com/css459/arch-linux-arm-clockworkpi-a06](https://github.com/css459/arch-linux-arm-clockworkpi-a06)

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**Author:** ![Steven\_Boger](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.clockworkpi.com/steven_boger/32/6184_2.png) [@Steven\_Boger](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/Steven_Boger)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2022, 7:30pm UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/how-to-install-debian/8467/4 "2022-05-19T19:30:42Z")

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Good news. A DevTerm user submitted A06 build configs to Armbian. You can now easily build an Armbian current Debian 11 Bullseye image. See screenshots here: [So, are there any fixes yet? - #29 by Steven\_Boger](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/so-are-there-any-fixes-yet/8125/29) and build instructions here: [So, are there any fixes yet? - #31 by Steven\_Boger](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/so-are-there-any-fixes-yet/8125/31)