Please Help Upgrading on Tronsmart Vega S95 Telos

[DWP]

Many years ago, I fooled around and managed to get this old, Android TV box to boot/run Armbian from external SD card. As I recall, I followed Steelman's instructions. It appears to have kinetic (Unbuntu?) installed. I ended up not really using it and it went back into a box.

 

Now I have a use for it. I want to run this software. And all of my apt commands fail in one way or another: bad repository (I changed to old-releases and that "helped"), then no release file (so I used insecure options on apt and that "helped" a bit but ultimately failed again), etc.

 

So I guess I am being forced to upgrade. But all of the suggestions I have found to do this fail - basically again due to the above stuff.

 

I am kind of at the end of my rope. Can anyone suggest what I should do? I need pretty good detail as I remain a newbie. Thanks

 

Edited May 30 by DWP

[SteeMan]

Have you tried a new install on a new sd card?

[DWP]

I am sorry but it is so long ago, I cannot even recall where to start - or even the original posting from you I was following. It just has all sipped away from me 😞

[DWP]

Ah, I found this archived post. So now I wonder what release to use. I have no recollection of what I did last time. Looks like Noble is the latest. So I will try that.

 

It appears I was using u-boot-s905 as it is the same size as u-boot.ext and it is working.

 

Thanks for all.

 

 

Edited May 30 by DWP

[SteeMan]

If you have no preference, I'd recommend Armbian Noble Desktop XFCE (6.6 kernel).  That is the latest Ubuntu userspace with the currently supported kernel and a lightweight desktop environment.

[DWP]

Thanks! I have that in process now. Etcher is under way and validating. I am getting kind of old for this, I guess.

Edited May 30 by DWP

[DWP]

I have ignition! Noble seems to run much better/faster on this limited hardware.Thanks once again Steelman!