An unofficial Debian Installer for Pinebook Pro

[xmixahlx]

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oh the current kernel supports this already. do:

sudo dpkg --add-architecture armhf
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install $package:armhf

I would avoid using tasksel in the installer, then install your minimal desktop environment, then install firefox:armhf or whatever.

Excellent. Thanks. I'm going to work on this.

So far, this has worked best of all. It's kind of bleeding edge, but between selective use of armhf packages, and from sid/unstable, I'm very close to having a system that I'd commit to NVMe.
Next stop will have to be Mesa from Git.

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I had the same issues initially, but I am using Mesa from git now for updated panfrost.

Are there special flags or build instructions for panfrost and arm64? debuild and pbuilder?

Thanks!

i know jeremiah already knows this... but for anyone else, i've created a separate mesa-git how-to thread here as to not distract from danielt's thread:
https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=8953

also, here is an openarena build script if you care about that:
https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=8954

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To elaborate on my question:
I already have two partitions on my eMMC with working (i.e. I can log in and run "ls") installs.  I've created another empty 10 gig partition.  With the boot-from-CD x86 debian installers I've used in the past, I could do an install that does not modify the partition table, and use the partition-tool to simply select a preexisting partition to install onto.  I'd like to be able to do that on my PBP.
Also, I'd like to be able to run the installer while running from one of the other installs on the eMMC.  If I'm not modifying the partition table, it shouldn't matter, I think.

There's two questions wrapped in one:
Can I do this with the current version of the installer?
If not, could this functionality be added (easily?) to a future version of the installer?

It sounds like xmixahlx knows of a way of modifying the installer that would enable that; having never looked at the guts of the installer, I find it hard to understand what he's talking about.

so technically i think you >could< do this, but there are some maintenance caveats that will probably mean that you won't want to.

if it did work... you could have a separate install on the emmc on a separate partition and possibly a separately partitioned /boot. 

however, since the sdcard is bootable... i would highly recommend just using that.

this isn't a partition table issue, this is a "we aren't using grub" issue. i would have to learn more about selectability before commenting. perhaps others already have the answer.

you should absolutely review danielt's installer before going any further. he's done a great job with this and reading the process is quite straight forward if you are familiar with debian installer and debootstrap, etc. (kudos)

i modified the installer to install debian sid arm64 directly and with a home partition (etc.) for testing, although i dropped the additional home partition for emmc install to simplify cryptfs.