Install to vim4

[Erica]

I am wondering how to install this. 

I've installed armbian on a nanopc, and edge V which is now a brick after a brief use as an armbian machine. 

 

But never successfully to a vim 3. I have a fresh out of the box vim3 that fails on boot with the current image on sdcard. 

 

The first vim4 was a doorstop on arrival. 

 

I finally have a second vim 4 that does seem to work if I push the function button 3 times it goes to oowow.  But so far nothing that I've read works to boot from sdcard. 

 

"Holding the function button while power on." 

 

I havent found any instructions here about an install process other than insert the sdcard and power on, which does absolutely nothing. 

 

I have the latest cli image on sdcard. 

 

Also, I take it that vim4 only supports legacy? 

 

Any help is greatly appreciated 

 

 

[Erica]

Reverified the sdcard image. 

The board boots directly into oowow. 

I dont see an obvious way to tell it to boot from sdcard. 

Holding the function button on power up does nothing. 

[Erica]

So it just boots directly to oowow.

There is a menu item for shutdown or reboot.  Reboot tells you to remove any sdcards beforehand. So I didn't. 

And the sdcard booted. 

It has installed, and reboot works. 

I installed to emmc and nvme. 

So far so good.  

 

Tried the ts1040 screen once. It might ve not been plugged correctly.  Dead computer. 

I need to try the other direction.

Copper down.