Hello

For those of you who have a RockPro64 and are keen to get Slackware on it, you can prepare by checking out the installation documentation.

I have a few more things to do before it's released to the wild but you can check out the hardware requirements section in preparation.

This is a basic installation enabling the documentation to 'scale' to various different Hardware Models. Obviously for those of you who are advanced users, you can forge your own path.

I forgot to mention that the Pinebook Pro support is also complete although the documentation has yet to be finalised since my Pinebook Pro has broken :-(

However, again you can check the hardware pre-reqs. The initial hardware setup is complete, and the only significant differences between this and the RockPro64 documentation are that the storage is /dev/nvme0n1 rather than /dev/sda, and you need to tweak the LCD panel brightness upon OS installation.
Other than that you can pretty much use the RockPro64 documentation after you set up the hardware and flash the Boot Loader.

I do have some more of the installation screen shots from before the Pinebook broke, so I will update the docs for that at some point.
If you have a Pinebook Pro and want to experiment, you'll be able to do so once SA64 is released. No guarantees that it works though, although it did two weeks ago!

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Thank you! drmozes

ROCKPro64 4GB Order Received DATE:November 19, 2021, maybe you'll be done by the time I receive it.

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Exciting news! I've skimmed throught the Pinebook Pro document and although the process looks unorthodox and opinionated, it is clearly explained. I can't wait to have the official Slackware powering my Pinebook Pro! (Not to dismiss Slarm64 that serves me well at moment.)

EDIT: I notice in 2 pictures that the battery bypass cable is plugged. Is that intentional ? It's considered harmful if the battery is present [ https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/Pinebook_Pro#Bypass_Cables ]

I wonder if the 12v 5A power supply isn't quite enough for your 3.5" drives?
Also have you tried any M2 pci cards like https://pine64.com/product/rockpro64...nterface-card/ and compared speed to the PCI SATA?

On the build machines the 3.5" drives and CPU fan are powered by an ATX PSU. Only the board itself is powered by the RockPro64's PSU.
This is not the documented installation though: the documentation covers a 2.5" SDD on a USB->ATA adapter, which is stable here but isn't the configuration I want for the build machines.

No but people can feel free to test it out and provide additional documentation for it.

Good catch, thanks - I'll sort that out.
I reverted it to factory settings for the photo and forgot to document the disconnection.

I meant as far as your note on the instability of running 3.5" from it, I wondered if yours were power hungry, some old ones and some new high rpm can have a high draw, others that draw less might work better. Makes me wonder because they sell their NAS case which looks like it will hold a couple 3.5".

I plan to, probably be after Dec though until I can order an M2 drive.

The NAS case should fit 2 3.5" disks. As to the amps I have no idea but that was my original thought as to the cause of the instability.
It occurred to me that I could power the entire thing from the ATX PSU if I wire the appropriate plug into the 12v line.
I might do that at some point.

FWIW I have been running 2 x 3.5" HDDs in my rockpro64 with NAS case for a year now without any issues with the stock 12V/5A power supply brick (120V input US variant).

I'm running two 4TB IronWolf NAS drives. The data sheet quotes a peak current draw of 2A, and an average operating power of 9.02W. For the two drives this would be a peak current of 4A, and average operating current of 1.5A (based on ~18W total, specsheet here: https://www.seagate.com/files/www-co...12US-en_CA.pdf).

The 4A peak pushes a little close to the 5A rating but that will be very short duration, and I doubt the actually SBC draws much more current on top of that. Maybe if I'm feeling adventurous I'll rig up an ammeter to it but I bet that it would idle under 2A for the most part.

Also looking forward to trying out your Slackware AArch64 version when its released! I'd like to pick up another SD card or USB drive to test run it from first but eventually I'd like to migrate my system over to the official branch.

Looks like your installation page moved to https://docs.slackware.com/slackware...3399_rockpro64

Also the path to download seems to have moved too, you have :
So combined you get:
but the correct path now seems to be:

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Thank you, fixed.

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can you fix this one while your at it

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ok!

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Hopefully you understood my attempt at humor there

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