October 22, 20241 yr Hello! Iv'e just done a test run installing Armbian for booting off my new m.2 nvme drive. As 'm planning to have the drives 2nd large partition as my basic home file server I'm wondering if I can as easily re-install the OS if/when I need to update it to a newer one? Because the instructions I followed and that I see around do a very basic cat /dev/mmcblk1 > /dev/nvme0n1 onto the raw un-partitioned nvme. My case will be that I have data on a partition on that drive that needs to stay. Is this going to be an issue or are there ways to re-install Armbian or even other distro on the boot partition? Cheers!
October 22, 20241 yr 4 minutes ago, Fredrik said: instructions I am not aware of any official instructions doing this via cat. The common way to move Armbian from sd to eMMC or NVMe is via armbian-install.
October 22, 20241 yr Author Ok thanks good to know! I was following primarily this one, https://jamesachambers.com/orange-pi-5-ssd-boot-guide/ i did actually then use armbian-install. So i f I use armbian-install, I can then wipe that boot partition and re-install again, or just over install on the boot partition? Edited October 22, 20241 yr by Fredrik
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