Adventures with Armbian (XFCE) on Pinebook Pro

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Hi

Yesterday I spend the whole day to install Armbian Desktop (XFCE) on my Pinebook Pro.

Why Armbian ?

The PBP was delivered with Manjaro Arm on it. Everything worked fine until Manjaro stopped support for the Arm platform.

For about one year there is no update on stable and the unstable branch couldn't establish a connection to Wifi.

I used Manjaro Arm to install tow-boot to the SPI following this website:

https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=17529

 I downloaded the current Bookworm XFCE edition and wrote that to an SD card.

Booting from the SD with tow-boot went fine. I installed armbian on the SD card and used armbian-config to install

it on the internal eMMC.

That didn't work.

fsarchiver to the rescue !

I created a GPT partition table on the internal disk, created two partitions with the correct flags and restored

both partitions from the SD saved with fsarchiver to the internal disk.

Booting went fine from the internal disk after that.

Now I am fighting with firefox ("Can't read configuration file - contact your systemadministrator") and the nextcloud client.

I can't add a online account anywhere. The application starts up but there is no button execpt (Information about ...)

which shows the supported clients a.o. Owncloud (which will work with nextcloud) but there is no way to add an account.

I'll open other posts to track that.