Bug#1032970: installation-reports to Pinebook Pro, d-i alpha 2
On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 09:50:23AM -0400, Znoteer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 11:34:42PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Znoteer <znoteer@mailbox.org> (2023-03-14):
> > > Package: installation-reports
> > >
>
> [snip]
> >
> > How reliable is your storage?
> >
> > Mar 14 21:26:04 in-target: dpkg-deb (subprocess): decompressing archive '/tmp/firmware-brcm80211_20230117-2_all.deb' (size=5349764) member 'data.tar': lzma error: compressed data is corrupt
> > Mar 14 21:40:09 in-target: dpkg-deb (subprocess): decompressing archive '/tmp/apt-dpkg-install-JqSiZc/097-libllvm15_1%3a15.0.6-4+b1_arm64.deb' (size=20662856) member 'data.tar': lzma error: compressed data is corrupt^M
>
> I'm not sure how to answer that. It's an nvme drive that I bought for this pinebook pro, so was new though I've had the pinebook pro for some time.
>
I've succesfully installed, first try, Armbian to the eMMC of my Pinebook Pro. Install is maybe not as accurate as "copied".
To "install" Armbian, one burns a bootable, runnable image to SD card. The first boot of that SD card asks for a user who will have sudo privileges and passwords for them and root. Then the gui is started and Armbian can now be run from SD.
To get it onto eMMC, one runs the script armbian-install which gives choices about where to install the bootloader and the system. I chose SPI and eMMC. The eMMC was first fdisk'd to make the whole disk a single EXT4 partition. So, no LVM, nor LUKS.
I didn't format the partition because I didn't know what the armbian-install script was going to do, eg. make boot and efi partitions, etc. It didn't. It mke2fs'd the whole thing ext4 and then simply copied the system from the SD card to that eMMC partition.
I took out the SD card after and rebooted (I chose not to write anything to SPI as I was confident that Tow-boot would do).
The system boots. I could surf the web. I found this installation report using the bug number.
The process doesn't much resemble what D-I does. I don't know if this is sufficient proof of the reliability of my eMMC or not.
Please let me know what you think. If there is anything you would like me to try with this armbian system to stress test, or whatever, the eMMC, I'd be happy to try things.
Thanks,
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