An unofficial Debian Installer for Pinebook Pro

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

Hi all!

I'm  a long time debian user,  (since Woody!)  but know 0 about git, and although I'm fairly bash savvy, I'm not a coder.

I went to the git page, downloaded/cloned the entire thing to ~/filename/pinebook-pro-debian-installer using the clone/download button in firefox,   but when I run (either as user or root) from within the correct directory ./install-debian,
it errors out immediately with "fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git"

I'm doing this from the pinebook pro, running the default oldstable debian installation it came with, fully updated via apt.

As should be obvious, I'm not git savvy in the slightest, and the entire boot process of arm confuses me.
Can anyone assist me in getting this process going to install unstable onto an sdcard?

TIA.

Yes, to get a proper build tree, you need to clone the git repository. The download buttons work for getting binaries and docs, but not for checking out, etc.

It's pretty simple. Make sure you have git locally (sudo apt install git).
At a bash prompt, in the parent directory of your choice (I use ~/build) it's as simple as:

Code:

$ git clone https://github.com/daniel-thompson/pinebook-pro-debian-installer

There's a lot more to git that can eventually be learned, if you like. Labeled branches are handy at times, and the ability to sync local changes. But simple fetching of build trees can almost start and end with 'git clone'.

This is for Bullseye/Testing. If you want Buster or Sid, there's pretty good instruction, elsewhere in this forum:
https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?...e#pid58996