If you use gparted to to format your SD card, make sure you first put a partition on the SD card. It need not take up the whole disk, as long as it is 128MB or bigger. Then format that partition as FAT 32.PLEASE HELP! So sorry to be a newbie noob... Thanks for your help!
When you unzip pinn-lite.zip, copy ALL the contents of the zip file to the SD card, including any folders.
Sometimes if you unzip a file like pinn-lite.zip to your hard disk, it will create a folder called pinn-lite/ and then extract the zip file into that folder. In that case, do not copy the pinn-lite/ folder; you want the CONTENTS of the folder, including any subfolders. Eventually your SD card first partition should contain a few *.dtb files, a defaults/ folder, an os/ folder amongst others. Then it should boot and will repartition the SD card according to PINN's needs.
If you are still having trouble with that method, you can alternatively download the image from
https://github.com/procount/pinn/releas ... te.img.zip
Unzipping this file will produce just one image file - pinn-lite.img.
If you can't use Rpi-Imager to install this file, you should be able to use the simple 'dd' command in linux to install the file to your SD card.
Use something like: `sudo dd if=pinn-lite.img of=/dev/sdXY` and replace /sdXY with the device node of your SD card. Please be careful when you use this command because if you get the output device wrong, you can end up erasing all your hard disk by mistake!
There are other tools to write image files to SD cards, like Balena Etcher, but I'm not sure if this runs on Linux Mint.
(If you use one of these methods to write the image file, you need not partition or format the card first, as this is all included in the image.)
Statistics: Posted by procount — Wed Jun 12, 2024 11:46 pm
