BigZero

I had X96 Mate from long time, which is 4GB/32GB with H616 CPU, (It is almost same as Tanix TS6s)
Tried many images from orange pi for same chip, none worked perfectly. 
Found out Sunix Linux community got support for H616, but they don't build full OS images,
After hell of searching found a repo from https://github.com/warpme/miniarch
He hosts MiniArch SD card image which works on many devices, 
from same link got SD card image for Tanix tx6s  which also worked on x96_Mate (both got H616)
 
Here is the file I used - https://github.com/warpme/miniarch/releases/download/20230106-6.1.5-g78293cd3/MiniArch-20230106-6.1.5-board-h616.tanix_tx6s-SD-Image.img.xz
 
1- Wrote img to SD card using Etcher
2- Inserted SD card in Device
3- Powered ON the device and it Booted from SD card
4- followed update instructions on GitHub Repo.
5- Rebooted after all updates,
6- Basic Arch was ready to be used 
Here USB keyboard , LAN, HDMI worked normally.
 
After reboot, logged in as root, and ran "start" command,
Now here selected option 5, which is install EndeavourOS
Process just ask you Yes/No questions, then you can select your DE, location etc. Automated script downloaded bunch of files and started its installation.
Got the message that installation is done successfully and came back to terminal.
Rebooted from terminal
After this point got only blank screen , dont know it is still booting without HDMI or not
So need to revert back to step -1 writing basic image to SD card.
And this time sticking to terminal only.
 
all this process is done on SD card only, and android on eMMC is safe .
 
 
 
 

I had X96 Mate from long time, which is 4GB/32GB with H616 CPU, (It is almost same as Tanix TS6s)
Tried many images from orange pi for same chip, none worked perfectly. 
Found out Sunix Linux community got support for H616, but they don't build full OS images,
After hell of searching found a repo from https://github.com/warpme/miniarch
He hosts MiniArch SD card image which works on many devices, 
from same link got SD card image for Tanix tx6s  which also worked on x96_Mate (both got H616)
 
Here is the file I used - https://github.com/warpme/miniarch/releases/download/20230106-6.1.5-g78293cd3/MiniArch-20230106-6.1.5-board-h616.tanix_tx6s-SD-Image.img.xz
 
1- Wrote img to SD card using Etcher
2- Inserted SD card in Device
3- Powered ON the device and it Booted from SD card
4- followed update instructions on GitHub Repo.
5- Rebooted after all updates,
6- Basic Arch was ready to be used 
Here USB keyboard , LAN, HDMI worked normally.
 
After reboot, logged in as root, and ran "start" command,
Now here selected option 5, which is install EndeavourOS
Process just ask you Yes/No questions, then you can select your DE, location etc. Automated script downloaded bunch of files and started its installation.
Got the message that installation is done successfully and came back to terminal.
Rebooted from terminal
After this point got only blank screen , dont know it is still booting without HDMI or not
So need to revert back to step -1 writing basic image to SD card.
And this time sticking to terminal only.
 
all this process is done on SD card only, and android on eMMC is safe .
 
 
 
 

This post is not Armbian related and therefore off topic.  However since the information is generic others might find it useful so the post is being allowed, in the hopes that someone would pick up this work and bring it into the Armbian fold.  Any volunteers ?