Board:   [DoveNet] Hardware/Software Help
Subject: Re: Android TV Boxes
From:    poindexter FORTRAN
Date:    Fri Nov 06, 2026 20:30

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-=> Mindsurfer wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

 PF> That's intriguing. Did you need to jump through any hoops to install
 PF> another OS on it, or was that simply a matter of booting from USB?

 Mi> First you prepare a SDcard or USB stick with Armbian. You have to edit
 Mi> a text file there to match your exact hardware.
 Mi> To get into the bootloader you have to power on the device while
 Mi> holding down a little switch inside the av port (with a toothpick or
 Mi> so). Then you boot from SDcard or USB stick, setup your software and
 Mi> eventually use a script that comes with armbian (or armbian-config) to
 Mi> write everything to the emmc flash drive. There are several tutorials
 Mi> out there. This is one of those:
 Mi> https://github.com/berci9ke101/nexbox-a95x-armbian


 I'm picturing a stack of those things forming a cheap Proxmox cluster.
 Very cool!



 Mi> I had issues due to a defective SDcard slot/port. So i had to use an
 Mi> USB stick prepared with Armbian instead of the SDcard. You could also
 Mi> boot from SDcard /USBstick everytime and work from that boot medium,
 Mi> but i decided to write everything/armbian onto the emmc drive and
 Mi> remove the USB stick again.

 Mi> Mindsurfer

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