On 2020-04-22, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Wed, 22 Apr 2020 Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> See if maybe these pages in the wiki are helpful >> >> https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/PINE64/Pinebook >> https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/PINE64/PINEA64 > > Thank you for these links. > >> See also this thread (still ongoing) on getting the graphical installer >> working on arm64. > > I admit I do not mind about the graphical installer - I always use the > test based installer. The "text based installer" may only work over serial console... slightly more information below. > My question is rather: Can I simply `dd` the Debian arm64 install disk > to a miniSD card, boot from this and install on the internal emmc of my > pinebook. This was *not* possible when I bought this device and I would > love if somebody would confirm here before I mess up what is now > "somehow working". The debian-installer concatenateable images from buster *should* work with *serial console*: https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/buster/main/installer-arm64/current/images/netboot/SD-card-images/README.concatenateable_images Getting the installer running on LCD is still a work-in-progress, but you *might* be able to get the text console running by editing the boot arguments on the boot media and passing console=tty0 and adding the appropriate modules to the initrd by appending an additional cpio archive to it... finding out exactly which modules... is a project. Though you could append all of the modules for the matching kernel version. But no, there's no image that will "just work" without some fiddling. live well, vagrant
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