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Using an intel server running NixOS this code https://github.com/Mic92/nixos-aarch64-images 
provides the ability to assemble a bootable image suitable for various Pine hardware using pieces are pre-built from other community builds.

<pre>
$> nix-build -Av rock64
$> sudo dd if=./result of=/dev/sdc bs=1M &
$> watch -n 20 sudo kill -USR1 $(ps | awk '/[0-9] dd/ { print $1 }') # report progress
</pre>

The instructions create an image file that can be written to an sdcard, but no instructions on how to customise the image. Having written the sdcard, we add the emmc-disable jumper and boot the board.

Once successfully booted, we remove the sdcard, and mount it again to take a look at it. At this point we can mmanually add an ssh key to /home/nixos/.ssh/authorized_keys


Testing on a Rock64, the image boots from the sdcard and is accessible via ssh.