Very early experience with Rock64 and Debian Stretch

[jl_678]

Hi,

I had a few minutes last night to test out my new Rock64 with the Debian Stretch minimal (0.5.1-89).  The results were not stellar; however, I only had a few minutes to play with it and so have not dug into the situation.  To provide some brief background, I have a bunch of pine64s and RPi and so am reasonably experienced with this stuff, but I am not expert like many here.

1. I created the image on a known good card and the process was flawless.
   
2. The system booted up well and threw a filesystem error requiring an fsck.  This did not impact the initial boot and everything came up including SSH.  Nice.
   
3. I was able to login via SSH over the LAN.  Extra nice. :-)
   
4. My first step was to run "sudo apt-get update", and it failed with a "size mismatch" error.  I think that this is a known issue
   
5. I was curious that the SDcard was formatted with many more partitions than my pine64
   
6. I tried to fix the disk issues with fsck, but both fdisk and gparted were unhappy and failed.  I am trying to understand if this is an SDcard issue or a issue with software image.  I will test with another card next week. (I would post the error message, but it was getting late and I did not have a chance to capture it.)
   
7. The process got me thinking about expanding the volume.  Do we have a script to automate this like we originally had with Debian or Armbian on the Pine64?
   

In short, my initial experience was not great with the Stretch image, but these are early days and I know that things will solidify.  I will test out another SDcard and Jessie next week.

I share all of this in case anyone has seen similar changes or has advice about what can be done to address issues 4, 6 and 7.

JL_678