I'm having trouble understanding armbian-install, is this a good place to discuss?

 

Basically, I'd like to understand the menu options better. Probably because it's a generic tool for all devices, the selections aren't clear (to me at least), depending on what device I'm working with.

 

For the most part, all I ever need to do is to copy the working SD image to the eMMC or NVME. Any armbian-install gurus lurking?

1 hour ago, Meestor_X said:

I'd like to understand the menu options better

Its BASH, so its easy to interpret: https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/main/packages/bsp/common/usr/bin/armbian-install perhaps by AI: https://chat.z.ai/s/084a9535-9fd8-4078-ab9c-ad85254689cf

 

Refactoring draft: https://github.com/armbian/configng/pull/384 Plan is to write this script from scratch ... but dunno when.

 

1 hour ago, Meestor_X said:

For the most part, all I ever need to do is to copy the working SD image to the eMMC or NVME.

 

This should work in all cases.

 

I hope those tips helps.

3 minutes ago, Igor said:

its easy to interpret

Lol. Maybe for YOU!! 😉

So I can post my questions about it here, then?

Appreciate the help.

3 minutes ago, Meestor_X said:

Maybe for YOU!

Actually not as I am human - I need time and focus to be able to understand what the code does. Same as everyone else. BASH is list of commands and if you are average tech person you can interpret those command, one after another to understand what is going on. AI can help.

 

5 minutes ago, Meestor_X said:

So I can post my questions about it here, then?

 

You can, but you can not expect that I will answer them. Perhaps someone else will, perhaps nobody. I show you how you can understand it without destroying my brain - I need to look into the code to answer questions ... Its Friday evening here and I already answered at maximum effort.