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Re: Re: NextThing C.H.I.P. v1.0 - Debian Stretch Installer from USB



Le jeudi 21 mai 2020 à 12:25 +0200, Pablo Rath a écrit :
> On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 03:57:52PM +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> > I know I'm late to the party
> 
> Better late than never. 
> Also your message is a friendly reminder for myself that I wanted to work with my
> C.H.I.P. again for quite some time and that my promised write-up for the
> debian-wiki is more than overdue and that I want to dist-upgrade to
> Buster and do some installer related testing on Buster...
> 
> > but is there somewhere something to
> > install stretch on a C.H.I.P. ?
> 
> Hmm. Your question is not very specific.
> Is there a reason to prefer Stretch over Buster?

I didn't even dream of Buster, but the more fresher the better !
> 
> 1.) If you need the onboard NAND you have to use a custom kernel. I don't know if there is a clear
> upgrade path for kernel updates. You could start with the images
> provided at JF possiblities NTC mirror (http://chip.jfpossibilities.com/) and work from there. I am
> sorry I have no experience in this area and can't provide much help. The
> C.H.I.P. community seems scattered or dead to me. With the death of the
> forum much knowledge was lost.
> 
> 2.) If you want vanilla Debian I am willing to help you. 
> Most of what I know and did is summarized in this thread:
> https://lists.phcomp.co.uk/pipermail/arm-netbook/2017-August/014646.html

Does this mean I need an USB external storage ?

> As far as I know sunxi-tools provided by debian package work. 

AFAIK it doesn't in its current version (1.4.2), but previous versions
work:
https://github.com/Thore-Krug/Flash-CHIP/issues/21#issuecomment-625323920


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