07-15-2023, 02:58 PM
I figured it out. Simple really. I formatted a second SSD drive (FAT), created a top level directory "firmware" on the new drive and copied the Debian package to the new "firmware" directory. Then everything went well with the Debian installer.
I now have a TowBoot (eMMC) | Debian 12 GNOME3 Pine64 Pinebook laptop.
I now have a TowBoot (eMMC) | Debian 12 GNOME3 Pine64 Pinebook laptop.