06-10-2023, 12:48 PM
Been digging deeper.
In the danctnix factory image are 4 partitions. This 4th partition contains the OS (6.2 GB) and installation stuff. If you mount it, there is a directory '/root' you need to open as administrator. Inside is an 'osimage.img' file (6.0 GB). This image file has 2 partitions, one type EFI (128 MB) but no UEFI files on it, and a second one with the OS. If you restore these 2 partitions to a SD-card, Pinetab2 will boot it and run the OS from the SD-card. The eMMC is left untouched.
Next step: shrink the OS partition on the eMMC so that I have room for a Data partition and maybe more ...
After that, see if I can have a boot menu to switch between OSes. Would be nice if something Grub2-alike is possible.
To check: if 'cloning' these partitions, I have to check the UUID of the partitions. There will be duplicates and I don't think that is healty ...
Let's get up to try all kind of Linuxes !
In the danctnix factory image are 4 partitions. This 4th partition contains the OS (6.2 GB) and installation stuff. If you mount it, there is a directory '/root' you need to open as administrator. Inside is an 'osimage.img' file (6.0 GB). This image file has 2 partitions, one type EFI (128 MB) but no UEFI files on it, and a second one with the OS. If you restore these 2 partitions to a SD-card, Pinetab2 will boot it and run the OS from the SD-card. The eMMC is left untouched.
Next step: shrink the OS partition on the eMMC so that I have room for a Data partition and maybe more ...
After that, see if I can have a boot menu to switch between OSes. Would be nice if something Grub2-alike is possible.
To check: if 'cloning' these partitions, I have to check the UUID of the partitions. There will be duplicates and I don't think that is healty ...
Let's get up to try all kind of Linuxes !