04-05-2016, 09:06 PM
(04-05-2016, 04:41 PM)FiZiX Wrote: I got my 2GB Pine A64 today and was pretty happy until I went to install an OS. According to the wiki, I can't install Arch Linux or Remix OS "due to a bug involving DMA data transfer with the gigabit ethernet."
As far as I can tell, my only option is to install Android Lollipop (which is useless to me). I'm very disappointed that I paid extra for the 2GB model and cannot use it as advertised. Any idea when either of those OSes will be fixed? In the meantime, do I have any other options besides Android??
I just received my Pine64 2GB version yesterday and was also disappointed at the lack of a working OS image on the Wiki. But looking around the forum I found this thread : http://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=376, and I now have Ubuntu Xenial with running with 2GB and ethernet, even was a script included to install Mate desktop. Not sure how well it works yet, all OSes for arm64 are pretty recent. There may be an Arch image available that works with 2GB in the Linux Development forum at http://forum.pine64.org/forumdisplay.php?fid=17.
Darko
Currently playing around with Arduinos, CHIPs, Orange Pis, PineA64s, Raspberry Pis, etc.