Flashing OS to a Micro-SD Card (TF Version)

To run Ubuntu or Debian (both Linux distributions) on VisionFive 2 Lite, you first need to flash the operating system (OS) image to a microSD card. This section provides step-by-step examples for flashing the OS to a microSD card using either Linux or Windows host systems.

To flash the OS image to a micro-SD card:

Insert a micro-SD card into the computer through a micro-SD card reader, or by a built-in card reader on a laptop.
Download the latest Ubuntu or Debian image from Github.
Extract the .bz2 file.
The image downloaded is in an img.bz2 compressed format. To extract the image, you will need to use a tool like 7-Zip in Windows/Linux or bzip2 command.
For bzip2, you can use the following command, this command will remove the original img.bz2 file. :
```
bzip2 -d <filename>.img.bz2
```
To preserve the original file, you will need to use:
```
bzip2 -dk <filename>.img.bz2
```
Visit the BalenaEther website to download it. We will use BalenaEtcher software to flash the Ubuntu image to a micro-SD card.
Install BalenaEtcher and open it.

Figure 1. Install BalenaEtcher
Click Flash from file and select the location of the image where we just unzipped the following file:

starfive-jh7110S-VF2-Lite-<Version>.img
Tip: <Version> indicates the version number of the Ubuntu image.
Click Select target and select the connected micro-SD card.
Click Flash! to start the flash task.