Tim J

I just wanted to give an update. I did, indeed, get my server physically working. However, I could not figure out how to install from the thumb drive to my hard drive. After hitting a point of personal frustration, I went with Debian 12, as the installer figured out enough about the hardware to get me up and running. HOWEVER, I will say that all of my testing and prototyping on Armbian systems was still of great value, and Armbian will continue to be the workhorse on my (way too many) single board computers, especially my collection of wayward Orange Pi systems. Thank you for your response, Igor. I absolutely respect the time you put into this and my hat is off to the entire team. Tim

I was curious if anyone has experience with using Armbian on older x86 server hardware systems. This would be for a home-lab sort of setup. In the past, I fought with Ubuntu Server and found that I missed the Armbian-Config utility that made setup a breeze. (Specifically looking at WIWYNN LYRA-M SV315, INTEL XEON E5-2670 V2 SR1A7 2.5GHZ 10-C0RE) I am planning to run a MariaDB instance for a scientific database. My past test use was using Armbian on an 8 GB Raspberry pi 4B, with MariaDB, and it worked very well, until the SD card failed. Any thoughts or points of caution before attempting this would be appreciated. I have generally had a very positive experience with Armbian so far.