Generic installation guide

A generic guide for installing most Linux distributions.

This document is a guide for installing generic Linux on your Xiaomi Mi Pad 5 with the latest mainline kernel.

PLEASE READ SLOWLY AND CAREFULLY!! BE SURE TO UNDERSTAND THE ENTIRE GUIDE BEFORE STARTING!!

Don’t run all commands at once and don’t rerun the commands if you interrupt the process. You need to be familiar with command line interfaces beforehand and you must not commit any typo with any commands. You may permanently break your device!

Get the images

You can get the system images from these sites:

• Maverick's Ubuntu and Arch Linux: https://mega.nz/folder/CVMGEAiB#7oazR3wpkKdAH2eZChtRTg

• map220v's Ubuntu builder: https://github.com/map220v/ubuntu-xiaomi-nabu (Refer the new installation guide to install it)

• PostmarketOS via pmbootstrap

Download them and continue...