02-17-2020, 08:41 PM
(02-16-2020, 01:55 AM)noeman5 Wrote: I'm having an install problem too, but mine is different. I got the install script to work, it runs says it is downloading the files, then asks me for to SD card location (mmcblk0) in my case. I give it the block name and it begins to run. It goes through the process and tells me it was successful and that I can install the card in my Pine64 device. But when I look at the card, it is empty. I can unmount from my computer, remount it, and it still shows empty. When I check the output from the install script it says in a couple of places, "mmcblk0p1 doesn't exist and no size was given" and "mmcblk0p2 doesn't exist and no size was given". What the heck? I even went so far as to use gParted to format the card, erase all partitions and make it one big partition (14.4 GB) so it has plenty of room to install to. Can't figure out what's going wrong.
That's strange. I had no issues flashing to my 16GB sd card from my Pinebook Pro. What distro and computer are you using? It is hard to say what may the issue, but here are some suggestions:
- Make sure you run as root.
- Ensure you have the latest script, and it is executable: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sailfish-on-dontbeevil/flash-it/master/flash-it.sh
- Make sure it is the correct block device. Type lsblk before inserting the sd card, then again after to be sure
- Enter the path of the block device, with the /dev, and without the partition number (p1 or p2) For example: /dev/mmcblk0
- Ensure you have met all requirements. Type ./flash-it.sh -h:
"This command requires: parted, sudo, wget, tar, unzip, lsblk,mkfs.ext4."
"Some distros do not have parted on the PATH. If necessary, add"
"parted to the PATH before running the script.
- Try running on another computer or partition or vm
- Try flashing another distro image with dd or Etcher, just to test if it is your computer or sd card, or issues just with getting the script to run properly
I hope you get this working.