12-18-2024, 06:07 AM
(12-18-2024, 04:59 AM)frank_philip Wrote:(12-17-2024, 06:54 AM)KC9UDX Wrote: NetBSD 10 runs very well on the PBP. Though you'll need a small WiFi dongle for now.
Needing a dongle isn't so great for me. Would the steps for loading a new image be the same?
I can put an image on microsd(with etcher) but I'm not too sure what the next step would be. I've seen some posts saying you need to flash storage drive but i'm not familiar with doing that. (only ever done OS installation on a more traditional desktop machine and a 2009 mac book pro)
I use a urtwn dongle. It's one like this: https://www.ebay.com/itm/113774031117?mk...media=COPY It barely sticks out the side of the PBP, and it gets better signal than the inbuilt adaptor. You can actually use the internal adaptor, but you have to run NetBSD -current, and even then in not sure the bwfm driver works well yet, I have no idea.
You can run the PBP right from the image on the micro-SD card that you burn. Then you can download and burn the image to the eMMC. That's probably the best thing to do. The simplest thing to do is once you are booted (the user name is root and the password is empty (just press return)) to download the image with ftp, and then write it to the eMMC with this command: `progress -zf file.img.gz dd of=/dev/rld0 bs=4m` (hopefully my memory is accurate).
