split out dedicated section for signify

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Daniel Micay 2019-07-19 08:15:21 -04:00
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<p>You should have at least 2GB of free memory available.</p>
<p>You need the unlocked variant of one of the supported devices, not a locked carrier
specific variant.</p>
<p>To verify the download of the OS beyond the security offered by HTTPS, you need the
signify tool. Some package repositories refer to it as <code>signify</code> while
others refer to it as <code>signify-openbsd</code> due to a legacy mail-related tool
with the same name. If you don't have a way to obtain signify from a trusted package
repository, such as on Windows, skip the additional verification. This is an important
step, but it only makes sense if you can chain trust from your existing OS install.</p>
<p>It's best practice to update the stock OS on the device to make sure it's running
the latest firmware before proceeding with these instructions. This avoids running
into bugs in older firmware versions. It's known that the early Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL
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<code>fastboot</code> from several years ago are still shipped by Linux distributions
like Debian and lack the compatibility detection of modern versions so they can soft
brick devices.</p>
<h3 id="obtaining-signify">
<a href="#obtaining-signify">Obtaining signify</a>
</h3>
<p>To verify the download of the OS beyond the security offered by HTTPS, you need the
signify tool. If you don't have a way to obtain signify from a trusted package
repository, such as on Windows, skip the additional verification. This is an important
step, but it only makes sense if you can chain trust from your existing OS
install.</p>
<p>On many distributions, signify is available via a <code>signify</code> package in
the official repositories. On Debian-based distributions, the package and command name
were renamed to <code>signify-openbsd</code>. Following Debian tradition, the
<code>signify</code> package and command are an <a
href="http://signify.sourceforge.net/">unmaintained legacy mail-related tool for
generating signatures</a>.</code>
<h2 id="enabling-oem-unlocking">
<a href="#enabling-oem-unlocking">Enabling OEM unlocking</a>
</h2>