01-14-2020, 02:55 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-14-2020, 03:17 PM by leibide.
Edit Reason: I misunderstood previous instructions
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(01-14-2020, 06:26 AM)tophneal Wrote: No, if you want to install it to the PBP, you'll need to download/clone the repo and build from source. There isn't an official arm64 release to install.
There is however an arm64 release of the software the PineInstaller is based on, Etcher.
That explains why I couldn't install the Pine64 installer on the Pinebook Pro! I'll try it on an x86 computer in a few days just out of curiosity (Ubuntu 18.04.3).
In the meantime, I followed your advice and installed etcher. It was easy even for me to follow the instructions given on the github page (https://github.com/futurejones/balena-etcher-arm). Then I flashed the downloaded image to the sd card with it (zaius told me where to find the image to download - the wiki.pine page https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?...48&page=11). I didn't even bother to format the card or check if it worked, or indeed check the image, because I wanted to see what would happen. I can now boot Manjaro from the SD card! I have a second PB Pro that I gave to my father. I'll flash Manjaro straight to the emmc from an external hard drive tomorrow because I'm very happy with Manjaro
Anyway, that's me sorted.Thank you for taking the time to help.
Tell me, do you think it would be a good idea for someone like you to post instructions for noobs such as me on how to manually set up the Pine64 Installer on the PB Pro, which they could just copy and paste into the terminal without understanding, just in case anyone wanted to do that? I've noticed on the Manjaro thread here that some people had difficulty getting their SD to boot the new operating system after using Etcher. Or would this just needlessly create problems (messed up set ups, more threads like this one, etc.)? Actually, I think I've just answered my own question.