I am sure there is a better way to do it but this one worked for me on PineA64 board with 2GB RAM. Here are the steps that I followed to setup BOINC and make PineA64 work for COVID-19.
Setup in PineA64+ Boards with 1GB/2GB RAM.
- Download Armbian based on Debian Buster
wget https://dl.armbian.com/pine64/archive/Armbian_20.05.1_Pine64_buster_current_5.4.43.img.xz
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Use BalenaEtcher to write it to a sdcard. balenaEtcher
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Boot the system and use the root credentials to login as mentioned in armbian website.
login: root
password: 1234
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Work through the steps to create a new user account.
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Login as the new user and install desktop using the armbian config option. Select System --> Enable Desktop. Link
sudo armbian-config
- After this you are greeted with a xfce desktop. Open a terminal and install boinc client and boinc manager.
sudo apt update
sudo apt install boinc-client boinc-manager
- Start the client and start the manager in a terminal session using the following commands.
sudo boinc
sudo boincmgr
- If you get a error code 180, change the port as `sudo boinc --gui_rpc_port 37777` and `sudo boincmgr -g 37777`
- Join the COVID Project at Rosetta@home. Click
Add Projectand findRosetta@homeand follow the instructions to join the foldforcovid using PineA64+.