PINE64 PinePhone (pine64-pinephone)

Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones

Table of Contents Introduction What not to post online Setting up the build environment Ensure ~/.local/bin exists Install or clone pmbootstrap Clone pmaports Initialize the pmbootstrap configuration for the pinephone Identify the block special file name Deploy to the SD card A bit about LUKS Determine if a partition is LUKS encrypted Determine the format of a LUKS encrypted partition A quick look at a LUKS header Test mounting our LUKS Encrypted Partition NCurses Over Serial Boot into postmarketOS Resize the screen Set the timezone, date & time What’s in the default runlevel?

Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones

After watching Nathan Freitas’ Libreplanet 2021 keynote on “Ten years of empowering activists AND everyday people through free mobile software” in which he briefly mentioned the PinePhone, I grabbed mine from the bottom drawer of my wardrobe and booted it up for the first time in a while.