Howdy all,
I mentionned before my SD card woes, which I suspected were the reason I couldn't do much WiFi-based testing of SculptOS on the P.P. Well yesterday I 'stumbled' on yet another SD card to test with (it must be at least the third one) and -- drumrolls -- now everything works 'nominally'.
So let it be known to current and future testers, "if at first you don't succeed, keep trying out several SD cards until you find one that does work" (of note: it does not seem to be the pinephone hardware which is at fault, since even MS Win running Etcher or Rufus sometimes fails to "burn" an SD card, even though its "find bad blocks" feature does not reveal anything... it's starting to look to me as the situation in the bad old days of 3.5" floppy disks when you could expect several disks in a ten-disk box to be bad).
Anyway, with this newfound no-name micro SD card/4GB that works (compared to the previously tested 16 and 32 GB that fail in various interesting ways), it's now possible for me to, boot SculptOS, expand the partition size (the UI now returns control in a couple seconds after the expand, yay), make it the "Default" partition, enable WiFi and type a password, and then update the system (used that feature to update from genodelabs/sculpt-pinephone-2024-04-26 to genodelabs/sculpt-pinephone-2024-05-02) and of course, try out various Preset's.
Most Preset scenarios run, except for the more RAM hungry ones which get stuck on resource requests (from what I can make out after donning my reading glasses), like "Morph web browser" -- indeed as noted in the Genodians.org articles, so that was expected. I should have selected a pinephone variant with more RAM to truly be a "first class citizen".. oh well -- will keep checking future updates though, as they are bound to introduce new presets and features, both at the high-end and at the low-end of RAM consumption, and it litterally takes just a few seconds with the on-target updater to upgrade to a new SculptOS image once it's released (well done!).
Cedric