02-21-2020, 08:29 AM
(02-21-2020, 03:30 AM)leonidas Wrote: Hello, I'm sorry for being dummy. Do I understand correctly that I need the USB Adapter for eMMC Module to install other OS on Pinebook Pro?
There are some issues with the default Debian - the problem with the sleeping mode and bluetooth devices, so I decided to try sort of more
user-friendly Bionic.
It also overheats during long compilation and freezes, but this is not exactly an OS issue.
Hi.
You don't need an USB adapter to flash the emmc.
You can boot the PBP with a micro SD card, use it like normal and also download and write an image to the emmc from the sd card.
Steps:
- download an image and write it to a micro sd card
- start the PBP with the sd card
- then download the image of your choice
- write the image to the emmc card with the command dd
So basically you are writing from sd card to emmc.
There is a section in the general wiki that gives helpful instructions.
NOTE: Before you write an image to the emmc I would recommend to try it from the SD card first. That way you can also try different distros before you decide what to put on the emmc.