Re: attempted install of buster arm64 net-install on rp4 fails instantly
On Sunday 08 September 2019 03:59:01 Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Gene Heskett wrote:
> > debian-10.0.0-armhf-netinst.iso
> > debian-10.0.0-arm64-netinst.iso
>
> SD card seems to be the intended target for netboot images.
> E.g.
>
> http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/installer-arm64/current
>/images/netboot/SD-card-images/
>
> Maybe worth a try, if you can get advise about the appropriate image
> for your ARM machine.
>
> Those are not ISO9660 but rather partitioned images with a FAT32
> filesystem:
>
> $ /sbin/fdisk -lu firmware.a64-olinuxino.img
> ...
> Disklabel type: dos
> ...
> Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
> firmware.a64-olinuxino.img1 * 2048 199999 197952 96.7M c W95
> FAT32 (LBA)
>
>
> Have a nice day :)
>
> Thomas
What does this do that the iso doesn't, and note it takes a windows
machine to follow those instructions. No such critter here, hasn't been
been for 50+ years.
I think what I will do next is send gparted to create a gpt table with a
fat32 first partition of a gig or so, and do an ext4 on the rest of it.
Then put the iso on sdf. By using an sd card that big, I have never
worn one out unless it was a sandisk. Those seem be garbage from the
gitgo. I've even had one go read-only on the first write with dd.
Since these come as NTFS formatted cards these days, I would think that
writing the iso to /dev/sdf would at least start the install, and the
installers disk utils could take care of the rest. What the iso wrote
should be all that counts.
I had one of busters rc3's (arm64) installed and running but got
sidetracked because while it ran nice, amanda killed it trying to do a
backup. I think thats an amanda build problem as it seems to apply to
any arm64 install as it would also kill an armbian install on a rock64.
armhf's worked fine. arm64's give BUS err.
Now, from my searches just now, I can't find a 10.1 version of these
installers. I thought I read that the mirrors s/b updated by now, but
the web pages apparently have not been, so the new release is still
hidden from view. Or is my google-foo broken again?
I have also been thru your installer docs, without finding specific
procedures for initializing the u-sd cards its being installed from. Did
I miss that link in my searches? Without that I feel like I'm playing
pin the tale on the donkey, blindfolded.
Thanks Thomas.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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