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== Installation to the eMMC ==
== Installation to the eMMC ==
=== Tow-Boot ===
The eMMC can be flashed by holding vol+ on startup to boot into USB Mass Storage mode.
The process of flashing an OS to the eMMC is identical to that of any other storage medium - e.g. a microSD card. You can use the <i>dd</i> command or a utility such as Etcher or Gnome Disks, etc.
=== Using JumpDrive ===
=== Using JumpDrive ===


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The Jumpdrive image is smaller than 50MB. You can keep an microSD card specifically for using Jumpdrive, and there are 64MB microSD cards sold cheaply that will suffice. Jumpdrive also acts as a rescue image in case if you messed up your installation. To do so, you can telnet to '''172.16.42.1''', mount rootfs and fix it!
The Jumpdrive image is smaller than 50MB. You can keep an microSD card specifically for using Jumpdrive, and there are 64MB microSD cards sold cheaply that will suffice. Jumpdrive also acts as a rescue image in case if you messed up your installation. To do so, you can telnet to '''172.16.42.1''', mount rootfs and fix it!


=== From the booted microSD OS ===
# Flash an OS to the microSD card (and optionally resize the partition, see below)
# Insert microSD card and boot the phone
# Download the desired OS' image on the booted OS or transfer it to the microSD card
# Extract the image file if it is archived
# Flash the image file to eMMC using <code>dd if=new-pinephone-image.img of=/dev/mmcblkX bs=1M status=progress conv=fsync</code> where X is the number label of the eMMC (of the disk, not the partition!). Use the command ''lsblk'' to check your devices: typically with the current kernel the microSD card is /dev/mmcblk0 and the eMMC is /dev/mmcblk2 but as always with ''dd'' be extremely cautious to get the devices correct.
# Turn off phone, remove microSD card and then turn on the phone.
=== From the booted microSD OS (risky) ===
{{Warning|This copies a mounted filesystem, which can lead to instability, erratic behavior, and data corruption.}}
# Prepare a new microSD card, flash desired OS to the microSD card
# Boot the phone with your new microSD card image
# Within the booted OS, flash/clone the running OS to eMMC, e.g. using dd. It will take about 15 minutes (depending on the speed of your card), and in the end it may show an error about not enough space - just ignore it.
# Turn off phone, take out microSD card, and try booting the phone which should load up the new OS from eMMC.
# Open terminal and resize partition to fill up entire disk (see below).


=== SD to eMMC via installer ===
=== SD to eMMC via installer ===


postmarketOS installer images booted from microSD card will simply ask the user, if they want to install to eMMC. The feature lives in the distro-agnostic calamares-extensions repository (see [https://github.com/calamares/calamares-extensions/pull/7 calamares-extensions#7]), so other distributions might adopt this in the future.
postmarketOS and Mobian installer images booted from microSD card will simply ask the user, if they want to install to eMMC. The feature lives in the distro-agnostic calamares-extensions repository (see [https://github.com/calamares/calamares-extensions/pull/7 calamares-extensions#7]), so other distributions might adopt this in the future.


== Resize partition to fit disk space ==
== Resize partition to fit disk space ==
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