pine64 setup

hardware used for setup

          * eu pinephone pine64 beta (2g ram) incl. usb3 cable

          * https://pine64.com/product/pinephone-beta-edition-linux-smartphone/

          * 2g micro sd card

          * usb micro sd card reader

          * notebook (linux os)

          * internet connection

required pine64 os images

        you need to install jumpdrive on micro sd card to install
        postmarketos to pine64 internal emmc

  postmarket pine64 posh

        homepage: - https://postmarketos.org/

        download: - https://images.postmarketos.org/bpo/

        image: - postmarketOS-phosh-pine64-pinephone-installer.img.xz

  jumpdrive pine64

        homepage: - https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Jumpdrive

        download: -
        https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Jumpdrive/releases

        image: - pine64-pinephone.img.xz

note

        the pinephone pine64 beta (2g ram) runs an outdated version
        manjaro with plasma mobile os which makes it completely
        unusable. if i could have imagined something like this before i
        would not have had the phone powered on before starting
        installation described below. so here is my advice:

        do not power on the pine64 with preinstalled majoro!

        postmarket pine64 posh is the complete different from the
        preinstalled manjaro plasma crap. it makes the pine64 what i
        wanted it to be: a mobile phone sized linux device that works. i
        run chromium, xterm, vim and almost any other software i run on
        my notebook (thinkpad x240, slackware 14.2, linux 5.4.6) and any
        other machine i work with (usually slackware 14.2, linux 5.4.6).

steps

  install jumpdrive on micro sd card

        on your linux machine:

        download jumpdrive

 lftp -c pget -c -n 28
 https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Jumpdrive/releases/download/0.8/pine64-pinephone.img.xz

        install jumpdrive on micro sd

 xzcat jumpdrive-pine64-pinephone.img.xz | dd of=/dev/[scard] bs=1M
 oflag=direct,sync status=progress

  boot jumpdrive on pine64

          * open the pine64 backplane

          * remove battery

          * insert micro sd card into pine64 micro sd card slot

          * connect pine64 usb cable to phone

          * connect usb cable to labtop

        the pine64 boots automatically to jumpdrive, if not just
        disconnect usb from phone, power the phone on and hold vol down.
        connect the usb cable, again when jumdrive is running.

  install postmarketos to pine64 internal emmc

        on your linux machine:

        download postmarketos posh

 lftp -c pget -c -n 28
 https://images.postmarketos.org/bpo/v22.06/pine64-pinephone/phosh/20221207-0434/20221207-0434-postmarketOS-v22.06-phosh-18-pine64-pinephone-installer.img.xz

        install posh to pine64 internal emmc

 xzcat
 20221207-0434-postmarketOS-v22.06-phosh-18-pine64-pinephone-installer.img.xz |
 dd of=/dev/[the 16g device] bs=1M oflag=direct,sync status=progress

        disconnect the usb cable from pine64, remove the micro sd card
        from pine64, insert battery, attach the backplane, power on
        pine64.

        the postmarketos posh installation starts.