An unofficial Debian Installer for Pinebook Pro
One week ago I got my brand new PinebookPro shipped from Hongkong to Germany.

Thanks to this script I managed to install Debian on it. The script initially failed with some "path not found"s. This seems to be because in chroot you still have the same PATH as before. So what helps is:

export PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:$PATH

before calling install-debian.

(In addition my first boot failed, I landed in some initrd shell. I removed quiet and splash from the kernel command line in extlinux - and from the second boot on I had no problems with that anymore).

I installed Debian on the internal eMMC (/dev/mmcblk2), having booted Manjaro from an SD card. To accomplish that I had to update U-Boot and clone Manjaro... quite a challenge.

My main grief with Manjaro was how MySQL support in DigiKam did not work - a rather exotic use case. This works out of the box in Debian. Graphics performance is similar (with the output of glxinfo being identical!). Video playback on Youtube seems a little better on Manjaro Chromium, though - probably due to the newer kernel (5.6 vs 5.5) or some tuning. I'm pretty impressed with how well Debian works. Thanks for the installer script! Smile


Messages In This Thread
First boot - by JaredT66 - 05-19-2020, 09:49 AM
RE: First boot - by carletes - 05-19-2020, 01:35 PM
RE: An unofficial Debian Installer for Pinebook Pro / Installing from Manjaro - by v-man - 06-07-2020, 01:25 PM

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