PINE64 Installer
This is a tool we fork from Etcher. We added the part for user to easily select their desired PINE A64(+), SOPINE, Pinebook OS image and automatically download the OS image from server before flashing it to the MicroSD card.
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Notes
- Please disable Ext2fsd software because it is conflicting with the App.
Screenshots and Guidelines
- Click on "Choose an OS".
- For Settings, click on the left bottom icon.
- Use the select box on top to select the board (e.g. PINE A64+ (1GB/2GB), SOPINE, PINEBOOK and etc).
- Select the OS of your choice.
- Scroll to the bottom the select a local image file (Note that, select local gz / gz2 / xz image file name must end with .img.gz / .img.bz2 / .img.xz).
- If you wish to flash older image version, you can use the version select box at the right of the OS list.
- Click on the "i" at the right of the version to visit the release notes or related websites.
- If "Eject on success" is ticked: After flashing or validating process, the app will try to automatically unmount or eject the MicroSD.
- Occasionally, the MicroSD may be accessed by some other process running on your system, then, auto umount/eject may failed. Because of that, you may need to manually umount/eject.
- If "Validate write on success" is ticked: After flashing process, the app will read back from the MicroSD and compare its final checksum with the previous flashing/writing checksum.
- Download Location: This is where the downloaded image files stored. You can change to other directory or click on the most right button to access to the directory.
- Remember where your previous download location because you might want to manually delete those old downloaded image files.
- Default download location:
- Windows: C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Roaming\pine64-installer\downloadedImage
- Linux: /home/<USER>/.config/pine64-installer/downloadedImage
- macOS: /Users/<USER>/Library/Application Support/pine64-installer/downloadedImage
- Download Sources: Use this to choose from which server all the OS images will be downloaded from.
- Note that, pine64.uk (UK) is a mirror server, there will be some delay for new OS image to sync over to this server. Thanks to Dave for setting up this mirror server.
Support
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License
PINE64 Installer is free software, and may be redistributed under the terms specified in the license.