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Doc: How to install to internal eMMC storage (on Pinephone)

Open davidak opened this issue 3 years ago • 2 comments

I was not able to find instructions on how to install mobile nixos to the internal eMMC storage of my Pinephone.

I found this using Jumpdrive, but that seem to be discouraged.

https://github.com/grwlf/mobile-nixos-cfg#flashing-the-internal-emmc-card-with-a-mobile-nixos-example-configuration

Target Disk Mode should be used instead.

https://github.com/NixOS/mobile-nixos/tree/master/examples/target-disk-mode

But how to use it to install the system?

davidak avatar May 20 '22 22:05 davidak

So I used the normal method or at least normal from what I have read which is JumpDrive and it worked well with the PinePhone Phosh image on your server:

https://ahoneybun.net/blog/pinephone-flashing/

ahoneybun avatar May 24 '22 19:05 ahoneybun

Noting that, since then, the Mobile NixOS installer image should be used to install on the device.

The steps being:

  • Get a well-behaved platform firmware that boots U-Boot images (e.g. Tow-Boot).
  • Run the installer from an SD card to install to eMMC.

samueldr avatar Sep 15 '23 06:09 samueldr