An unofficial Debian Installer for Pinebook Pro

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

Thank you sir,  after reading more, I figured this out, (finally) and now the installation fails at

dd: failed to open 'bootloader/pinebook/filesystem/idbloader.img': No such file or directory

Suggestions from here?

ps,  audiofool here,  I adore brian Eno, and have everything he's ever composed.

Jazzmans, I just saw this, sorry!


The firmware files for the bootloader are fetched from the running image on your Pinebook Pro, with a section of Daniel's script, using dd.
This is in a section "do_bootloader" - Lines 55-64.

If you are running the script on a standard PP image like the default Debian or Manjaro releases, this should work, unless your bootfiles are on a different device - example if somehow the bootfiles are on the EMMC and your running rootfs is on a USB, somehow without these.

It could also be that you aren't executing with the right permissions? IIRC I could not run this with sudo. I think I had to su as root for permissions.

Code:

su -c ./install-debian

It's worth trying, if your other configuration is good.

Brian Eno? I just came upstairs from laying down vocal tracks on a cover version of "Needles In The Camel's Eye". I'm in an Eno-saturated period!