Fresh pioneer installation from provided microSD card

I got a new Pioneer freedombox yesterday and flashed the latest onto an SD card and it did not work. Cockpit and any app installs did not work after I ran Software Update. I installed twice and tried numerous fixes to try to get it to work. Eventually, I narrowed in on the issue when I saw Buster instead of Bookworm in apt sources files. This post is what got me working: Issue with automatic update to FreedomBox versions in bookworm-backports.
Editing the following two files and running apt update -y && apt upgrade -y worked.

  1. /etc/apt/preferences.d/50freedombox4.pref
  • use n=bookworm-backports in the Pin line now
  1. /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/60unattended-upgrades
  • changed to n=${distro_codename}-backports

I’m guessing that this will be fixed soon when the fix gets merged.