Difference between revisions of "Pinebook Pro Debian Installer"

Revision as of 21:37, 17 January 2020

This is an image creator and Debian installer that runs from an existing Linux OS and installs Debian Bullseye
- Installer can configure an encrypted rootfs and provides a choice of desktops, including the default Debian desktop based on Gnome 3
- Strict adoption of upstream Debian packages (with exception of kernel and bootloaders) in order to provide a clean upgrade path as Bullseye matures
Download at: https://github.com/daniel-thompson/pinebook-pro-debian-installer/
Pull requests welcome but for discussion and support please use the forum topic.

Feature	Status	Notes
Wifi	Works out of the box
Full disk encryption	Works	Requires running the installer with `CRYPT=yes`

Issue	Category	Status	Workaround	Notes
Firefox 'Illegal instruction'	Debian issue https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=948708		Use a different browser meanwhile (epiphany for instance)	But epiphany also has issues, white screen often, mouse movement re-displays (under mouse)	Both Konqueror and Falkon also have issues, don't work (dbind)
cdn-dp fec00000.dp: Direct firmware load for rockchip/dptx.bin failed with error -2	Debian issue https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=857054	If having FDE, it fails to load at boot as the firmware is not included in initramfs	Include the dptx.bin firmware in the initramfs (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=857054#5)

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