Pinebook Software Releases
Linux Image Releases
Special thanks to Sunxi community, ayufan, and longsleep for their contributions
Below you will find useful links to various resources and forum threads:
Manjaro ARM
Aparently discontinued support.
Armbian
Untested automated builds for power users that are able to fix problems on their own
https://www.armbian.com/pinebook-a64/
KALI
https://www.kali.org/get-kali/#kali-arm
- Login with
- username: kali
- password: kali
AOSC
Aparently discontinued support.
KDE Neon Image
- Login with
- username: live
- password: live
Q4OS
Aparently discontinued support.
DietPi
- DietPi is a lightweight, yet easy to setup and feature-rich Linux distribution, based on Debian.
- To find out more about DietPi, please visit the official documentation.
- Discuss the Pinebook build on the PINE64 forum thread.
- DD image (for 4 GiB micro SD card and above)
- Login with
- Username: root
- Password: dietpi
Slackware
- Slackware is a very old, interesting, convenient and easy distribution.
- Visit the project's website here (https://fail.pp.ua)
- You can follow the ongoing discussion about Slackware on the PINE64 forum (https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=9439)
- The Slackware build using LRZ compression algorithm, please visit the lrunzip github site for utility
Slackware Aarch64 Miniroot Community Build Image [microSD Boot]
- DD image to microSD card and boot. Highly recommend using Etcher
- Login with
- Username : root
- Password : password
Slackware Aarch64 XFCE Community Build Image [microSD Boot]
- Only work on 1080P 11.6" Pinebook, not applicable to 14.1" and 11.6" Pinebook.
- System with a graphical shell
- DD image to microSD card and boot. Highly recommend using Etcher
- Login with
- Username : root
- Password : password
Netrunner [No Longer Maintained]
Netrunner [20180417] [microSD Boot]
- Only work on 14.1" and 11.6" Pinebook, not applicable to 1080P 11.6' Pinebook.
- You can visit the Netrunner website here
- DD image:
RISC_OS [No Longer Maintained]
RISC OS Community Build Image [microSD Boot] [19.02]
- Only work on 14.1" and 11.6" Pinebook, not applicable to 1080P 11.6' Pinebook.
- To learn more about RISC OS please visit RISC OS website
- DD image to microSD card or eMMC module. Highly recommend using Etcher
- Direct download from pine64.org
- MD5 (GZip file): 4BE5698516FAF8420AEA34A422C20991
- size: 50MB
- Direct download from pine64.org
Debian
Debian Netboot Installer
- Forum thread: "Stock Debian on original Pinebook"
- Debian concatenateable installer images
- Readme provides info about concatenating firmware.pinebook.img.gz + partition.img.gz to create a bootable installer image.
- Installer offers automatic partioning and full-disk encryption (LUKS), but only manual partitioning with a single ext4 partition has been confirmed to work.
- Bootloader must be installed separately after installation, before rebooting.
- WiFi driver kernel module must be provided during installation, or a USB network adapter used. (Android USB tethering works, with network driver
rndis_host
). - See also: Debian Netboot installer on 1080P Pinebook
BSD Image Releases
NetBSD
NetBSD Community Build Image [microSD Boot]
- To learn more about NetBSD please visit NetBSD main page
- DD image to microSD card or eMMC module. Highly recommend using Etcher
- Console and SSH default login:
- username: root
- password: [none]
- Instructions concerning enabling SSH can be found here
OpenBSD
OpenBSD 6.6-snapshot, Community Build Image (FVWM2 WM)
- To learn more about OpenBSD please visit OpenBSD main page
- DD image to microSD card or eMMC module (at least 8GB). Highly recommend using Etcher
- https://www.dropbox.com/s/79hpdpehrbbk984/pinebook-2019-11-04.img.tgz.sha256?dl=0 (sha256)
- https://www.dropbox.com/s/yas1glfvvucb9a0/pinebook-2019-11-04.img.tgz?dl=0 (image)
- compressed size: 3.6GB
- Console and SSH default login:
- username: pine64
- username: pine64
- root password: pine64
- If you need more information please ping: https://forum.pine64.org/member.php?action=profile&uid=12423
Android Image Releases
Android 7.x [No Longer Maintained]
Android 7.1 Community Build Image [microSD Boot] by ayufan
- Only work on 14.1" and 11.6" Pinebook, not applicable to 1080P 11.6' Pinebook.
- Special thanks to ayufan, Icenowy, lennyraposo, longsleep, lukasz, tkaiser, Xalius and PINE64 community contributors
- Please use good random IO access performance microSD card such as Samsung EVO when try out Android 7.1
- DD image (advise 4GB microSD card and above):
- Please allows some time (around 5 minutes) for the initialization process on 1st boot
Android 6.x eMMC
Android 6.0.1 Stock Image for 14.1" and 11.6" Pinebook [microSD to eMMC] [20170605]
- Rootable build, online update (OTA) only work when the build still not root
- LCD resolution is 1366 x 768
- Rooted DD image (advise 4GB microSD card and above):
- Direct download from pine64.org
- MD5 (GZip file): C99BF459C6724BA73F12C532E87A8BA5
- File Size: 776MB
- Direct download from pine64.org
Android 6.0.1 Stock Image for 1080P 11.6" Pinebook [microSD to eMMC] [20181001]
- Rootable build
- LCD resolution is 1920 x1080
- Rooted DD image (advise 4GB microSD card and above):
- Direct download from pine64.org
- MD5 (GZip file): E433A148CEBD743EADE6CAA765331A4B
- File Size: 595MB
- Direct download from pine64.org
Android 6.0.1 Stock Image for 1080P 11.6" Pinebook [microSD boot] [20181001]
- Rootable build
- LCD resolution is 1920 x1080
- Please use high performance microSD card for Android boot which request frequent random read access.
- Please ignore warning message regarding SD corrupted on home screen upper left corner
- DD images:
- For 8GB microSD Card
- Direct download from pine64.org
- MD5 (GZip file): CD27DF6083E6A4A5E7C8B986EB92FAA7
- File Size: 553MB
- Direct download from pine64.org
- For 16GB microSD Card
- Direct download from pine64.org
- MD5 (GZip file): 1376AAE8382E96FD7B45B0998A5CD6E9
- File Size: 703MB
- Direct download from pine64.org
- For 32GB microSD Card
- Direct download from pine64.org
- MD5 (GZip file): B54E7F323B316750654E385B078AEC58
- File Size: 867MB
- Direct download from pine64.org
- For 64GB microSD Card
- Direct download from pine64.org
- MD5 (GZip file): C8DBC6293EB51E58F91E27364C8C587D
- File Size: 734MB
- Direct download from pine64.org
- For 8GB microSD Card
/e/ [No Longer Maintained]
/e/OS Community Build Image p [microSD and eMMC Boot] [20190926]
- Only work on 1080P 11.6" Pinebook, not applicable to 14.1" and 11.6" Pinebook.
- To learn more about /e/OS, please visit the official website
- Please check out this article on the Pinebook /e/ build.
- For thread diiscussion please visit the PINE64 forum
- DD image (for 8GB microSD card and above)
- Direct download from pine64.org
- MD5 (GZip file): 4DC46A4E3ED2B47F4830E96DFCBBC6D8
- File Size: 685MB
- Direct download from pine64.org
Bliss OS [No Longer Maintained]
Bliss OS [20170919] [microSD Boot]
- Only work on 14.1" and 11.6" Pinebook, not applicable to 1080P 11.6" Pinebook.
- An Open-Source OS, based on Android, for phones, tablets & PCs.
- Multi-Windows Android Build
- You can visit the Bliss OS website here
- DD image:
- Direct download from pine64.org
- MD5 (GZip file): 6B5BC28D69D575BA5448AD8081A0D356
- File Size: 943MB
- Direct download from pine64.org
- Use the Taskbar launcher for Desktop mode UI
Linux BSP SDK
Linux BSP [4.0]
- Direct Download from pine64.org
- MD5 (TAR-GZip file): 802D7C92D27177CBD17567359F9845A7
- File Size: 4.67GB
Linux BSP [3.0]
- Direct Download from pine64.org
- MD5 (TAR-GZip file): 898ACF446851DF3BE7B643F62CE3CE84
- File Size: 4.18GB
Linux BSP [2.0], kernel [v3.10], with GPL compliance header
- Direct Download from pine64.org
- MD5 (TAR-GZip file): 2EE11C9AED246C17995493F213A6A6DA
- File Size: 6.41GB
Android SDK
Android Marshmallow [v6.0]
- Direct Download from pine64.org
- MD5 (Zip file): 12362D0B63EBF29FC363A50A942346D5
- File Size: 15.92GB
Mali-400 64-bit Driver
The Mali-400 64-bit Driver, build 20160622
Download:
Other Tools
- Allwinner PhoenixCard Bootable SD-Card Creator
- Allwinner DragonFace V2.2.5 software that will let you edit and modify A64 Android Build PhoenixCard image
Checking microSD Card Performance and whether it is Counterfeit
This will help you to determine if the SD-Card is Counterfeit Drive or not