Quoting Gene Heskett (2019-07-05 17:45:54) > On Friday 05 July 2019 07:34:42 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > Quoting Gene Heskett (2019-07-05 12:54:05) > > > > > Its not quite that simple on the arm's. You do the install there > > > by dd'ing the complete filesystem image to the boot media, usually > > > a u-sd, so you get that crap regardless and must physically remove > > > it before a staticly defined, hosts file based network that has > > > not had a functioning dhcpd server even in my original 1998 > > > install of red hat 5.0 will work. > > > > Please stop speading misinformation about how Debian is installed. > > > > Official way to install Debian is using debian-installer, also for > > boards using U-boot. Official way to install Debian is using debian-installer. > > See e.g. the user notes for Allwinner-based boards at > > https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Allwinner#Install_Using_Debian-Installer > > I have looked at that page, hoping to see some mention of the pi's > since the allwinner doesn't appear in their advertising as a hugely > important detail, Official way to install Debian is using debian-installer, regardless of the fact that Raspberry Pi does not use a System-on-Chip from Allwinner. > and I've had rather a zoo full of arm based boards here. But the pi > wasn't mentioned so I went on my way. I'm not even sure all the pi's > are allwinner based. Official way to install Debian is using debian-installer, regardless of the amount of boards you have piled up at home. > > It is true that you can leave it to others to prepare an installation > > for you, so that you only need to dump their pre-installed image onto > > your boot disk device - e.g. as done with the preview image for > > Raspberry Pi offered at https://wiki.debian.org/RaspberryPi3. > > Does it actually work? Official way to install Debian is using debian-installer, regardless of how broken or not Raspberry Pi and/or Debian may be. > > It is also true that you can have others make a derivative of Debian > > and offer you that as a pre-installed image - e.g. as done by > > Raspbian and Armbian projects. > > > > The "crap" you get using unofficial pre-installed images is not on > > Debian but on those pre-installing and on you using those instead of > > Debian. > > This may be true, but how long will it take to get the new, faster > video drivers into your official version? Or will they ever get in? Official way to install Debian is using debian-installer, regardless of how frustratingly long time it takes reverse-engineer the closed-source parts of Raspberry Pi making it frustratingly difficult to use with Free software operating systems like Debian. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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