Official Debian support!

[dukla2000]

Please note that, unfortunately, there is a regression now in the installer that I often observed with Debian unstable in the past: Debian now ships kernel 5.6 but the installer probably still includes 5.5. The installer boots up fine etc. but later in the step with selecting the mirror - no matter what mirror you select - the installer refuses to continue because it can't find a kernel/modules that match the installer's kernel.

I tried using older partition.img.gz files but I didn't fine one that works. If anyone knows a workaround please share.

OK, having read through this thread and the one in the PBP section, has anyone got this to work yet?

I tried for my ROCKPro64 last night.

• Could download firmware.rockpro64 fine
  
• Could download partition.img fine
  
• Could zcat mash them together fine
  
• Could dd to an SD-card
  
• Could boot the resulting SD-card fine
  
• Could select various installer options (such as country, keyboard) fine
  
• After selecting a mirror a whole lot of downloading action happened (as witnessed by activity on my router)
  
• Then after 30 mins of flashing cursor in bottom left of screen I gave up.
  

I was anticipating a "no bootloader" problem on the resulting SD-card but never got that far!