Installation Instructions for TV Boxes with Amlogic CPUs

[Maurizio Finesso]

Hi @John Taylor, @SteeMan,

unfortunatly it takes me time because I was not at home. I found that I can use the minimal or server version and only using Rufus. If I use Balena Etcher it doesn't create the fat32 partition named Boot. now I'm struggling because I would like to use the system on SD card but after that I do any changing for example IP from dynamic to static using armbian-config a lot of messages comes saying that EXT4FS is in read-only mode and I can use the system but not to install programs. I'm a little afraid to install on eemc because I have no android image. It is an old MXQ pro mini from leelbox.

[2mg]

@Maurizio Finesso@John Taylor@SteeMan

 

I've had success using USB stick instead of SD Card (see my post on 1st page), however now the BOOT Fat32 partition was hidden for some reason, I used DiskGenius to unhide it.

I didn't test this on the tv box yet.

 

 

This also goes against what is being said in this thread (that there are no more Fat32 paritions visible in Windows) from this thread:

EDIT2: USB stick works, however I'm having trouble with "USB device not recognized" on Windows, and I can' seem to be able to fix it with gparted for example, as it keeps disconnecting, so YMMW.

Edited Wednesday at 07:52 AM by 2mg

[John Taylor]

10 hours ago, 2mg said:

I've had success using USB stick instead of SD Card (see my post on 1st page), however now the BOOT Fat32 partition was hidden for some reason, I used DiskGenius to unhide it.

I didn't test this on the tv box yet.

Disk genius in my case reveals there is NO FAT32 boot partition, hidden or otherwise, only a root partition.

[John Taylor]

Furthermore, today I built an Ubuntu desktop PC, and flashed a build onto an SD Card. The resultant installation has only ONE partition. No Windows involvement whatsoever  Same with a USB flash drive (to eliminate the SD card adapter). 

So where do we go from here?

Edited 30 minutes ago by John Taylor