02-20-2021, 10:35 AM
(02-19-2021, 01:40 PM)Fish Wrote: Hi, I am trying to install Debian through the installer, but I'm having some trouble with it. The pinebook pro runs mrfixit's image from SD, and I'm trying to install Debian on the emmc. The installer is started with the following command:./install-debian BLKDEV=/dev/mmcblk1 (double checked of course). I posted the error below. What am I doing wrong?
The error:
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I just solved this problem while installing Debian on my Pinebook Pro. I used a hint from the Github issues list.
What I did was I searched for and removed "network-manager" from line 170 of the `./install-debian` script. It seems network-manager tries to pull in policy-kit but doesn't know how to, and that causes issues during install. After removing it, wifi worked just fine on first boot if I installed the standard KDE desktop, because I think network-manager gets installed later as a dependency of KDE (probably for other desktops too) but since I wanted a minimal KDE install I also tried installing without full KDE; that broke all internet when I booted into the OS for the first time, since network-manager never got installed. Turns out that you need to do a `./install-debian do_shell` to get a shell in the new OS as a chroot and then install network-manager while you can still lean on the host OS's network connection. (It's particularly convenient to do so anyway to install stuff like minimal KDE, or gvim, or whatever other must-have software you need out of the box, so you might as well anyway.)