SD Card boot - trying out OS
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Hello!

Brand new user, love the Pinebook Pro so far. Very new to Linux as a whole, very new to most of the things this laptop can do lol. So:

I'm trying to boot an OS from my SD card, hopefully to try out different things like Android and Debian etc.
I downloaded the Android 7 image from the Pine64 site, matching the size of my SD card (Sandisk 32GB) and flashed it using Etcher.
Not sure if I downloaded the right image, however the SD card disappeared from the computer, doesn't show up in my Files.

1.) How do I boot from the card?
2.) How do I format the card if I need to redo this?

Looking forward to learning, thanks all!


Messages In This Thread
SD Card boot - trying out OS - by Baconomics - 06-18-2020, 07:43 PM
RE: SD Card boot - trying out OS - by tophneal - 06-19-2020, 06:58 AM

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