05-30-2016, 03:00 PM
(05-30-2016, 02:18 PM)justjager Wrote: Being my first post I wasn't sure where to post this about Rufus.exe....
Ok, first off, my hats off to all you guys (all inclusive general term ladies...don't get mad please....lol) who develop (code, program, I guess "developer" is now a general term for a lot of that) because although I do remember some of my basic DOS I learned way back when, and at 10yrs old my dad's Smith Corona PC with a whopping 256k of memory was "the shit!" I just never got into the soft side of things, but I love hardware and can build almost anything, but of course someone would have to program it...lol....
Which brings me to the point of this reply,
I'm not understanding why people are having so much trouble with their first boot from an SD Card??
When I got my 2GB Pine board I read up on making the SD bootable with the image of your choice??
As for typing in any code or line of characters for linux....which I've never actually used... I know I know, it's not that I've not had the time, it's that I'm sooooo very lazy...
Phoenix screwed me big time when I used it. Although it said it was formatting and partitioning the SD Card in my card slot it was in fact doing it to my 2nd SSD...my data drive on my Asus G750! Needless to say I didn't touch Phoenix again.
I kept reading and found that RUFUS was what was being used by those that had had the same experience...
Rufus 2.yaddayaddayadda is what I used the second go round on trying to make one of these images work and not to piss on anyone's Wheaties or anything, but the three (3) images I've mounted to separate and basically cheap (all on sale over 2 months on Amazon) 16, 32, and 64gb cards have all worked the first time they were installed and except for the first image of Androind 5.1.1 a couple of months ago that was posted on Pine64's site which took 8-10 min to boot, have booted in less that 3 minutes and although I haven't checked all the functions but the basics, have all worked great....
AGAIN HATS OFF AND A BIG THANKS TO ALL THE GUYS THAT GO THROUGH THE DIFFERENT BUILDS OF EVERYTHING AND MAKE THEM WORK FOR GUYS LIKE ME!!!
I waited the last month or so because I had to wait (like everyone else I'm sure) for my 512mb version of the Pine64.
Here's a list of the three different Images I used and a link to RUFUS 2.7.855 that got my SD Cards bootable and imaged without any problems.
Rufus 2.7.855
https://www.dropbox.com/s/68unkfqz2n8fyy...7.exe?dl=0
All three were run on the 2gb Pine64.
1) android-rooted-ver5.1.1-20160505-pine64 - this took the longest to boot up the first time about 2 1/2 to 3 min. After that just a little under 2 minutes.
2) pine64-image-debianmate-310101bsp - this image build screams! It was up and going in under 2 minutes it's first boot and in about 1 minute after that.
3) remix-v2.0-20160415-pine64 - This one also took right at about 3 minutes first boot and almost 2 minutes after that.
(NOW IF I COULD ONLY GET A VERSION OF WINDOWS 7 OR 8 THAT WORKED JUST AS EASY...)
All the connected peripherals stayed exactly the same:
USB Keyboard (Dell - very basic without any extras like Multimedia keys or anything)
USB Wireless trackball (my baby...it's about fifteen yrs old and is still going strong...Logitech Trackman with the red trackball.
I also used a USB 4-port hub after the first boot (wouldn't boot with the first Android image a month or so ago unless everything was unplugged for the first boot. so I decided not to even try this time around)
and a wired (wireless by plug-in repeater/AP) ethernet connection.
Thanks for that excellent report on how you got everything working using Rufus. I am still waiting for my 2 gig board.
