04-27-2016, 10:33 AM
(04-27-2016, 07:04 AM)chrwei Wrote: right now I'm feeling the pine64 is more of a developers board than an end-user board like the Pi. things are still evolving at quite a pace, and the info that's out there is only just now getting past the "this only makes sense if you know how it works" point. such as, only just this morning was the required SD card size added to the wiki.
it's going to take a while to get it user friendly.
Hmm its a piece of hardware, it is for everyone, just depends how much effort you are willing to put into gathering the knowledge needed to use it. Has it been grossly oversimplified like the dominant OS and HW platforms in the world, Nope. Is it as easy as the Pi, no, but the Pi has a 4 year head start.
The SD sizes are arbitrary if some knowledge is had and common sense used.
Your SD must be bigger than the image to be installed on it. If you are using an OS that can be installed via "dd" or win32diskimager and the file is 8GB in size, or was built from an image installed and fully expanded on an 8GB card, then yes its going to require an 8GB card.
Some of the images are less than 2gb and likely would work on a card smaller than that.
For the Android/Remix images 8GB sounds like a good starting point to me.