![]() ![]() I haven't tried this myself so please be aware that you are on your own should you try this.Īnd last no least, here is the download link: /?spb5mf92cspc0clhdvlf It might be possible to write it the same way to the internal eMMC, but you'd surely need to restore u-boot afterwards. ![]() Please replace the trailing 'x' of the device name with the proper digit representing the actual SD card device after verifying its name with lsblk. # xzcat pbp-debian-sid_arm64-sdcard_uid:rock_pw: > /dev/mmcblkx # dd if=pbp-debian-sid_arm64-sdcard_uid:rock_pw:changeme.img of=/dev/mmcblkx bs=1M status=progress To put it on an SD card, first unpack it with unxz and then use dd to actually write it: You will require an SD card of at least 8GB capacity for this image. You might want to change the password to something more to your liking. The root password is currently locked, so please use sudo to switch to root for any sysadmin related tasks. In case you'd like to switch login managers, lightdm is also installed on the system and can be activated instead of wmlive-gdm by using the following commands:Īs the very name of the xz compressed SD card image already suggests, the login can be done with user id 'rock' and password 'changeme'. Since the gdm is probably subject to bitrot, for security reasons it might not be advisable to use it outside of closed local networks. The XDMCP capabilities are the main reason why i still favour it over lighdm. The graphical login manager is wmlive-gdm, a fork of the old GTK2 based gdm version 2.20.11, which was the last release still providing usable XDMCP capabilities. Here is a first visual impression of what to expect: i./59s2a1e.png.įor people preferring a more traditional desktop there is the option to switch to XFCE4 instead, which provides it's components also in the Window Maker desktop. Don't be surprised about the two terminal windows running a screen session when you login. The default GUI is using Window Maker and is largely based on components formerly provided by the now dormant Window Maker Live project (by yours truly). The system is using 50% of the supplied RAM as zram based swap. It has LVM and cryptsetup installed to be able to externally manage encrypted LVM volumes. The folder /root/mrfixit_u-boot/ contains Mr.Fixit's u-boot update files which might be useful to restore a broken u-boot with sdcard boot capabilities on the eMMC. So if you are an experienced Linux user accustomed to mainly work on the command line, then this might be the right tool for you. The installation is fairly basic but with lots of excellent CLI utilities that might be handy as a rescue system to fix broken installations. In addtion to all the above described i also created a full minimal Debian/unstable system with almost the same features on an 8GB SD card. This works well enough for me to use as a daily driver on the road. With the exception of the /boot partition, both systems have the root partition, swap and everything else running on a LUKS encrypted LVM. The latter is mainly used to host the /boot partition components needed to start up the system on the NVME drive. The system has been installed on a 512GB Sabrent Rock Nano NVME drive and in a second step also on the internal eMMC storage. As already mentioned elsewhere thanks to Daniel Thompson's excellent pinebook-pro-debian-installer as intermediate stepping stone i was able to get a full Debian/unstable running, including Debian kernels 5.10 and latest 5.14.0-2 (as of today).
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