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smithmcgriff / Fedora-on-pinebookpro

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Writing to eMMC Boot partition? #2

Open Eonfge opened 4 years ago

Eonfge commented 4 years ago

Really cool to see Fedora coming to the Pinebook Pro.

I have a question though. I would like to use Fedora as my main OS, instead of Debian, so how can I install Fedora directly to the eMMC storage inside the PBP?

bengtfredh commented 4 years ago

Really cool to see Fedora coming to the Pinebook Pro.

I have a question though. I would like to use Fedora as my main OS, instead of Debian, so how can I install Fedora directly to the eMMC storage inside the PBP?

I tried to flash Fedora to eMMC from a Fedora SD, that did not work for me. So I flashed a SD card with Alpine/Postmarked. Unpacked Fedora image on another more strong computer end put image on a ext4 formated USB stick. Then I booted into Alpine, mounted USB stick and flashed Fedora to eMMC. Then I resized partition 6. After I booted in to Fedora I followed tips from README. In addition I added a swap file, and I turned off search for all except files in Gnome settings. Make overview more snappy. For me Firefox works better than Chromium. I recommend exclude kernel* in dnf.conf because you need to keep the provided kernel. Last night I upgraded to Fedora 32 and Gnome 3.36 - looks very nice.

smithmcgriff commented 4 years ago

Hey, just seeing this. Glad you got it working. I've only had success writing to internal eMMC by unpacking the image first on a regular computer, rather than pbpro, and then writing it to internal, just like you did. I'll include the dnf.conf kernel setting in my next image. Thanks for the feedback!

westurner commented 4 years ago

Last night I upgraded to Fedora 32 and Gnome 3.36 - looks very nice.

https://fedorapeople.org/groups/schedule/f-32/f-32-key-tasks.html says FC32 w/ the more performant Gnome 3.36 should be released ~4/28?

I'll include the dnf.conf kernel setting in my next image.

I'm currently downloading Rel_2/fedora-pinebookpro-gnome-0.8.img.xz. Is the dnf.conf in there? See #5 "Build scripts?"