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About

This template provides generic installation instructions for NixOS on ARM sub-pages. Look at the other installation instruction templates, there may be one more appropriate for the lineage of your board!

Parameters

variant Pass one of aarch64, armv7l, armv6l as relevant.
storage default: an SD card This will be used like ... to a/an EXAMPLE STORAGE DEVICE. Example: storage=a USB drive.

Usage

{{ARM/installation generic|variant=EXAMPLE}}

Example

To use the generic installation image for your board, you will need to copy it verbatim to an SD card.

sudo dd if=sd-image-EXAMPLE-linux.img of=/dev/DEVICE conv=sync status=progress

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+== About ==
 This template provides generic installation instructions for NixOS on ARM sub-pages. Look at the other installation instruction templates, there may be one more appropriate for the lineage of your board!
+=== Parameters ===
+* <tt>variant</tt> Pass one of <tt>aarch64, armv7l, armv6l</tt> as relevant.
+* <tt>storage</tt> default: <tt>an SD card</tt> This will be used like <tt>... to a/an EXAMPLE STORAGE DEVICE</tt>. Example: <tt>storage=a USB drive</tt>.
+== Usage ==
 <syntaxhighlight>
-{{ARM/generic install|variant=EXAMPLE}}
+{{ARM/installation generic|variant=EXAMPLE}}
 </syntaxhighlight>
-== Preview ==
+== Example ==
-{{ARM/generic install|variant=EXAMPLE}}
+{{ARM/installation generic|variant=EXAMPLE}}
 </noinclude><includeonly><!--
--->{{#tag:syntaxhighlight|sudo dd if=sd-image-{{{variant}}}-linux.img of=/dev/sdX|lang="bash"}}
-Replace <code>/dev/sdX</code> with the path to your SD card device.<!--
+-->To use the generic installation image for your board, you will need to copy it verbatim to {{{storage|an SD card}}}.
+{{#tag:syntaxhighlight|sudo dd if=sd-image-{{{variant}}}-linux.img of=/dev/DEVICE conv=sync status=progress|lang="bash"}}<!--
 --></includeonly>