danielc_123

Hello all
 
Lately I have been spending some time trying to update Kernel and OS to my Lichee Zero Pi.
I reached to compile Kernel 5.20 and upgrade Debian from Jessie (8) (official image) to Buster (10), and stop there.
 
I've faced the same USB Keyboard problem, as mentioned before by @Kot, and solved by simply replacing the dtb file in the SD for the one compiled.
 
You can see a short guide how I compiled the Lichee Zero Pi Kernel here
 
Moving from Jessie to Buster was not really complicated but it needs a lot of time,
First I upgraded from Jessie (8) to Stretch (9) and Second from Stretch (9) to Buster (10)
My initial LicheeZero Pi image was: mindb_dd.tar.gz you can downloaded at the unofficial Lichee Zero Pi site.
MOVING FROM JESSIE TO STRETCH
I followed these steps to get Jessie Support using freexian: https://www.freexian.com/lts/extended/docs/how-to-use-extended-lts/
1. Manually installed freexian-archive-keyring package with:
 
wget --no-check-certificate https://deb.freexian.com/extended-lts/pool/main/f/freexian-archive-keyring/freexian-archive-keyring_2022.06.08_all.deb && sudo dpkg -i freexian-archive-keyring_2022.06.08_all.deb  
2. Modify the sources list to the ones from freexian config file in this location: /etc/apt/sources.list or /etc/apt/sources.list.d/multistrap-debian.list
Comment all lines in the sources list file and add these other lines
 
deb [arch=armhf] http://deb.freexian.com/extended-lts jessie main contrib non-free deb-src [arch=armhf] http://deb.freexian.com/extended-lts jessie main contrib non-free  
3.  Installed sudo, correct host name and enable bash history
apt update # Here, I was able to install sudo apt install sudo # Correct the host name adding LicheePi together to localhost: 127.0.0.1 LicheePi localhost nano /etc/hosts # And enable bash history touch ~/.bash_history  
4. Modify again source list to add Stretch sources listed here: https://debiansupport.com/mirrors/  sources file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/multistrap-debian.list 
deb [arch=armhf] http://archive.debian.org/debian stretch main contrib non-free deb-src [arch=armhf] http://archive.debian.org/debian stretch main contrib non-free deb [arch=armhf] http://archive.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates main contrib non-free deb-src [arch=armhf] http://archive.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates main contrib non-free  
5. Now Update, Upgrade and dist-upgrade
sudo apt clean sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade -y sudo apt dist-upgrade -y  
MOVING FROM STRETCH TO BUSTER
Just follow again the steps 4 and 5, but replacing the sources list by the ones of Buster founded in the above link.
 
Hope this help somebody
Regards