Re: Pinebook and NetBSD 8.99.39

[Robert Swindells <rjs%fdy2.co.uk@localhost>]

On 2019-05-14 14:59, Ron Georgia wrote:
> I just received my new 1080P 11inch (27.94 cm) Pinebook. It was
> pre-loaded with Ubuntu and KDE. While I like KDE, it seems a bit
> heavy. Ubuntu is ... ok, but I would rather have NetBSD and LXDE or
> Mate. I attempted to install NetBSD but ran into some problems. Most
> likely due to my incomplete understanding (see tag line below).

[snip]

> Questions:
> 1. Is there a way to make the keyboard a standard keyboard?

Have you tried power cycling it ? I have seen the same problem a few
times.

> 2. Once booted, now do I "reflash" the internal drive to boot NetBSD
> without having to boot from the micro SD card?

Just write the same image to the eMMC device that you put on the SD 
card, it
will resize on first boot.