08-14-2020, 11:04 AM
(08-11-2020, 06:45 PM)bcnaz Wrote: You may find some of the answers you are looking for in the forum rather than the wiki.Thank you for the insightful information. I am finding my way but not as easy as I anticipated. I thought buying a linux preloaded laptop would ease setting up things as compared to converting a MS PC. Apparently, I was wrong.
But there are quite a few thousands of forum posts, + not all the good ideas find their way into the wiki.
a-wai is well known on this forum as a developer for the Mobian phone OS.
He has suggested the mainstream Debian arm64 "is - or - soon will be able to run on the PBP"
My problem with installing Debian from the Debian website is it will lose the ability to auto-boot from the SD card.
Since most of the operating systems in the Pine wiki do have the boot instructions included on the eMMC.
The PBP will chose the SD card first, so it "appears" to have the instructions elsewhere.
I like the ability to test other operating systems from the SD cards, while still having a permanent operating system on my eMMC.
Please see the Pinebook Pro boot order in the wiki. !
I hope this makes sense, helps ?
BC
I switched to Debian on a Micro SD card because Manjaro gave me problems in setting up my favorite programs. I was originally planning to stick with the default os of the pinebook as I suspect Manjaro comes tweaked to work with hardware.
Debian is nice; I like their Gnome version. I think we should be still able to burn the Debian to a micro sd? I am aware Fedora has aarch64 raw images but not sure if we could do it either.
Ok, I will try to read about boot process in pine64.