On Friday 05 July 2019 07:34:42 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Gene Heskett (2019-07-05 12:54:05) > > > Its not quite that simple on the arm's. You do the install there by > > dd'ing the complete filesystem image to the boot media, usually a > > u-sd, so you get that crap regardless and must physically remove it > > before a staticly defined, hosts file based network that has not had > > a functioning dhcpd server even in my original 1998 install of red > > hat 5.0 will work. > > Please stop speading misinformation about how Debian is installed. > > Official way to install Debian is using debian-installer, also for > boards using U-boot. See e.g. the user notes for Allwinner-based > boards at > https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Allwinner#Install_Using_Deb >ian-Installer
I have looked at that page, hoping to see some mention of the pi's since the allwinner doesn't appear in their advertising as a hugely important detail, and I've had rather a zoo full of arm based boards here. But the pi wasn't mentioned so I went on my way. I'm not even sure all the pi's are allwinner based. > It is true that you can leave it to others to prepare an installation > for you, so that you only need to dump their pre-installed image onto > your boot disk device - e.g. as done with the preview image for > Raspberry Pi offered at https://wiki.debian.org/RaspberryPi3. Does it actually work? > > It is also true that you can have others make a derivative of Debian > and offer you that as a pre-installed image - e.g. as done by Raspbian > and Armbian projects. > > The "crap" you get using unofficial pre-installed images is not on > Debian but on those pre-installing and on you using those instead of > Debian. This may be true, but how long will it take to get the new, faster video drivers into your official version? Or will they ever get in? > > - Jonas Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
