An unofficial Debian Installer for Pinebook Pro
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I've had "rewrite the installer in something that is not make" on my TODO list for a little while since there have been a number of minor issues that are hard to tackle without making the make script pretty horid. To be honest we're not making heavy use of make's build avoidance so we don't lose much by leaving make behind.

Thus I have just pushed a new version of the installer. It is mostly just a transliteration of the exisitng installer but I have thrown in a couple of improvements... in particular it is now easy to run the installer from one of its own installations (which can be useful for encrypted installs).

Have fun!



@wasgurd: There are a couple of rough edges (nobody has yet reported working bluetooth and I see frequent memory leaks with panfrost+gnome-shell) but with a couple of tweaks it is working very well for me as the main OS for my PBP. Personally I am happier with the rough edges with this installer over the rough edges in the default @Mrfixit2001  image (Debian Stretch) but that's not so say the mrfixit didn't do a great job... so depending on your taste you might prefer the default image and that's perfectly fine! I'd suggest ordering a couple of A1 (or better) SD cards and experimenting with the various bits of software that are available. 

@e-minguez: Did you get anywhere with the desktop not loading? It's a very odd problem... I don't recall seeing anything like it before.
PineTime: wasp-os and MicroPython, Pinebook Pro:  Debian Bullseye


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RE: An unofficial Debian Installer for Pinebook Pro - by danielt - 12-31-2019, 05:28 AM
First boot - by JaredT66 - 05-19-2020, 09:49 AM
RE: First boot - by carletes - 05-19-2020, 01:35 PM

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