05-09-2017, 09:44 PM
(05-09-2017, 02:04 PM)Prophesi Wrote: Once you use Ayufan's install_to_emmc script, the Pinebook basically goes:
You got an SD card in me? Alright let's try booting from that.
Oh, there isn't an SD card? Then let's try booting from the eMMC.
So you can theoretically plop in an SD card when you'd like to use a different OS. The Pinebook comes with only 16gb eMMC, but you can upgrade that pretty easily.
Not quite... the Pinebook always exhibited this behaviour. If you put a suitable boot image on the microSD, that will boot in preference to the on-board eMMC.
(05-09-2017, 02:23 PM)mspohr Wrote: The problem is that some of the SD card images boot and immediately overwrite the eMMC with their contents. I'd like to change these images so that they boot the OS itself from the SD card and leave the existing eMMC contents.
Ayufan's Android 7.1 image appears to do this but the Android 6 and Ubuntu Mate images install themselves in the eMMC.
That was the two stock pine64 images... not sure about their 20170505 release as I haven't tried that. But as ayufan said, that is *NOT* the case with his images...
Oh, and regarding mouse clicks with the touchpad... it behaves much better if you keep one finger pressed on it when you have the mouse cursor where you want it, before you press the button to click... it tends to stay put there, instead of register the movement of your finger to a different spot as being where to move to next... as the 'button area' is part of the 'active trackpad area'
