Re: attempted install of buster arm64 net-install on rp4 fails instantly

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Subject: Re: attempted install of buster arm64 net-install on rp4 fails instantly
From: John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com>
Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2019 08:06:27 -0500
Message-id: <[🔎] 87h85naqek.fsf@dhh.gt.org>
Reply-to: jhasler@newsguy.com (John Hasler)
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 201909080739.12177.gheskett@shentel.net> (Gene Heskett's message of "Sun, 8 Sep 2019 07:39:12 -0400")
References: <[🔎] 201909080326.28793.gheskett@shentel.net> <[🔎] 28163701603833891102@scdbackup.webframe.org> <[🔎] 201909080739.12177.gheskett@shentel.net>

Gene writes:
> I have also been thru your installer docs, without finding specific
> procedures for initializing the u-sd cards its being installed from.

You dd the image directly to the raw device.  What was previously on the
card is irrelevant: it gets overwritten.

I recently installed Armbian on an Espressobin (uses a Marvell chip).
These installs can be a bit gnarly.  I had to upgrade the Uboot loader
and patch some variables on the chip.
-- 
John Hasler 
jhasler@newsguy.com
Elmwood, WI USA

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- Re: attempted install of buster arm64 net-install on rp4 fails instantly
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  - From: "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net>
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  - From: Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net>

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