06-03-2020, 05:47 AM
Many thanks - that finally got me there. For the other newbs to linux....
I used MrFixIt2000's Ubuntu image
1. Download Ubuntu from here: https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/Pinebo...an_Desktop
Unzip with 7zip and then use Win32DiskImager to flash it to an 16Mb microSD card - NOTE: USB Stick *won't* work (as I found out after several attempts, and you need >16Gb to download the 2nd image as well! (or have it on a NTFS formatted USB stick seperate tot he microSD card like I did),
2. Once booted, login using "rock" / "rock", plug in the USB stick, and hover over it to get the mount point name
3. Verify the eMMC drive designation by opening a terminal and typing:
The first (large) disk labelled "mmcblk[something]" is what you are looking for. In my case (and will probably always be the case) it was /dev/mmcblk1
4. In terminal type:
Wait for it to finish.
5. Shutdown, pop out the SD, boot up from the eMMC. You should boot into your chosen Ubuntu image.
I used MrFixIt2000's Ubuntu image
1. Download Ubuntu from here: https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/Pinebo...an_Desktop
Unzip with 7zip and then use Win32DiskImager to flash it to an 16Mb microSD card - NOTE: USB Stick *won't* work (as I found out after several attempts, and you need >16Gb to download the 2nd image as well! (or have it on a NTFS formatted USB stick seperate tot he microSD card like I did),
2. Once booted, login using "rock" / "rock", plug in the USB stick, and hover over it to get the mount point name
3. Verify the eMMC drive designation by opening a terminal and typing:
Code:
lsblkThe first (large) disk labelled "mmcblk[something]" is what you are looking for. In my case (and will probably always be the case) it was /dev/mmcblk1
4. In terminal type:
Code:
sudo dd bs=4M if=/dev/media/rock/xxxxxxxxx/myimage.img of=/dev/mmcblk1 conv=fsyncWait for it to finish.
5. Shutdown, pop out the SD, boot up from the eMMC. You should boot into your chosen Ubuntu image.
