11-25-2020, 06:37 PM
(11-25-2020, 05:15 PM)SanjevR Wrote: Hey all so I purchased another Pinephone and I want to flash an OS to my microSD card. Previously to flash I used my Mac Laptop and it required an acessory with a USB cable to connect the microsd to the laptop. Now I don't want to use a mac but rather i'd like to use my Pinebook Pro since I am trying to make this my main computer. It does seem that the pinebook Pro has a slot for sd cards but it doesn't appear to have anything for MicroSD cards. Another questions I have is it seems that I can't find Balena Etcher in the pacmac-manager. How do I download it?
The Pinebook Pro does use a 'micro sd' card, though when discussing it we often just refer to it as an 'sd' card.
It may be handy to use a 'usb to micro sd adapter' instead of the onboard micro sd card slot, as your PBP will attempt to boot from this
if it is still inserted when you do a reboot, or a start-up.
I have not 'seen' the Balena Etcher app offered for the PBP's operating systems "yet", currently I use an old Dell laptop running LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition)
to flash the 'sd' cards for my multiple Pine phones. Both of my PBP's are still running the original 'mrfixit' Debian.
'Etcher has been very dependable for me, flashing sd cards for both the PBP's and the Pine phones.