I think I have looked at that. There are several nexus 7's (2012 vs 2013 and with/without LTE). I have the 2012 no LTE model. Apparently it used an SoC that was abandoned and so pre-built support for it is more tenuous.
https://askubuntu.com/questions/633788/installing-ubuntu-touch-on-nexus-7-2012-now-that-it-is-no-longer-supported On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 4:30 PM Tomas Kuchta <[email protected]> wrote: > > Not related to you question and fresh dose of finest "whataboutism"! > > To make my manners even worse, of course, I have no clue what is > postmarkedos! > > With that out of the way .... > > Isn't Nexus 7 suppose to be able to run the Ubuntu phone/tablet OS? I > occasionally stumble on recent update release notes on the interwebs. > > Just a question, not a suggestion, I swear. I assume that you know :-) > > Tomas > > On Tue, Jan 19, 2021, 19:11 Russell Senior <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > > I just spent about 3 days trying to get postmarketos running on old > > abandoned nexus 7 (grouper) devices, including by consulting with > > supposed experts on their IRC channel. Part of the problem seems to be > > that the constructed firmware is bigger than will fit in the system > > partition. There are suggested workarounds, but none of them seem to > > work. Furthermore, the various intermediate steps seem to lack tools > > that might be helpful for figuring out what's going on, like, oh, > > something to tell me how the emmc is partitioned. > > > > Has anyone successfully installed postmarketos on anything? And if so, > > do you have any insights into the mechanics of what is going on under > > all the scriptings. > > > > Thanks! > > > > -- > > Russell Senior > > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org > > PLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
