[Arm-netbook] next step is a boot image

[Philip Hands]

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net> writes:

> On Thursday, January 12, 2023, Andreas Grapentin <andreas at grapentin.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> I'm curious -- does the old parabola image no longer work??
>
> from 2016? unfortunately the MicroSD card with the only
> copy destroyed itself.
>
> i do have a debian/9 image left but it is not in a state
> to be used for micro-desktop testing.

This seems to have useful tips:

  https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Allwinner

I guess we ought to have a page on https://rhombus-tech.net/ for tips on
how to get things installed, and either link to that from the debian
wiki, or hopefully make the procedure simple enough that it can just be
added to one of the lists of boards on the debian page (probably with a
link to the rhombus-tech page).

While wondering about this, I noticed that the search on
rhombus-tech.net was not working, apparently because 'omega' was
missing, which turns out to be provided by xapian-omega (I guess that
got lost in a upgrade) so I've reinstalled that, which allows one to
search the wiki again:

  https://rhombus-tech.net/ikiwiki.cgi?P=a20

I also notice this page:

  https://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner/a20/archlinux/

which seems only to be linked from the Sitemap:

  https://rhombus-tech.net/sitemap/

I'd have thought we want a top-level "Installing" page, with a sub-page
for the EOMA68-A20, which could be populated with links and tips, but
I'm not sure because the wiki as it is has some structure, but I don't
understand it -- for instance, I'd not use a page called "allwinner_a10"
for information that turns out to mostly be about the EOMA68-A20, but I
know that's for hysterical raisins, so is presumably not easy to change
-- I think the wiki needs something to say "Don't worry about the A10
vs. A20 distinction, we started out using the A10, but it's all about
A20 now" somewhere, but I'm not sure where.

BTW If a mass-renaming is in order, I can do that trivially via git, but
I suspect we don't want to break links, so I won't do that unilaterally.

Cheers, Phil.
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