Install Armbian without destroying 3rd partition

[Jose Francisco]

Hello everybody.

I own a Orange Pi 5 Plus with Debian and 3 partitions: boot, root and storage (fat, ext4, ext4). Now I want to try Armbian but I don't want to overwrite the storage partition, so I shoudn't use dd to write the .img file. 

Ant tip to solve this situation? 

Thanks.

[Igor]

21 minutes ago, Jose Francisco said:

Now I want to try Armbian

 

If you have downloaded "Debian" from Orangepi site, you are already using Armbian. Only some slightly changed old version and without Armbian & community support. To try Armbian, you burn SD card and boot from it. No need to install it anywhere yet. To install it, just run armbian-install and select correct (root) partition. Since this is Linux and your are using 3rd party OS (and bootloader), backup of /storage is recommended before proceeding. Just to be on a safe side.

[Jose Francisco]

Thanks for your fast answer.

Yes, Im using Debian from the Orange Pi site.

I didnt know about the armbian-install command.

Thanks again.

[Igor]

59 minutes ago, Jose Francisco said:

I didnt know about the armbian-install command.

 

You can execute this also from armbian-config.
 

Otherwise, documentation. Its not in the best shape, but enough to get going:
https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Getting-Started/

[Jose Francisco]

Hi again.

Do I need one (root) or two (boot+root) partitions in my nvme disk when using armbian-install?