How to install Raspberry Pi OS on the Raspberry Pi Pad 5?

Last Updated on September 23, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org

The Raspberry Pi Pad 5 is a great mini computer, as it has been shown by ETA PRIME:

With a 20`000 mAh battery, the Pi Pad 5 had an idle running time of more than 24 h in our first test:

Unfortunately, we where not able to install Raspberry Pi OS on it to this date. leepspvideo has an instruction how to do this:

The video instruction is partly based on Jeff Geerlings instruction for the CM4:

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/how-flash-raspberry-pi-os-compute-module-4-emmc-usbboot

  • User commented there in the comments to have problems installing Raspberry Pi OS on the CM4, we too.
  • We received error messages at every single step during the installation.
  • leepspvideo wrote in the comments of his video, to ask for support in the Raspberry Pi forum.
  • There is a special section for the Pi compute module in the Pi forum:

https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewforum.php?f=98&sid=a29239c6200a4e1550f7501c92ae7d3d

  • Unfortunately, we failed to install Raspberry Pi OS on the Pi Pad 5 to this date, and we did not find a solution in the Raspberry Pi forum either.

BigTreeTech forum:

https://community.biqu3d.com/