Re-Installing Armbian (or other distro) on nvme boot partition?

[Fredrik]

Hello!

Iv'e just done a test run installing Armbian for booting off my new m.2 nvme drive.

As 'm planning to have the drives 2nd large partition as my basic home file server I'm wondering if I can as easily re-install the OS if/when I need to update it to a newer one?

Because the instructions I followed and that I see around do a very basic

cat /dev/mmcblk1 > /dev/nvme0n1

onto the raw un-partitioned nvme. 

 

My case will be that I have data on a partition on that drive that needs to stay.

Is this going to be an issue or are there ways to re-install Armbian or even other distro on the boot partition?

Cheers!

[Werner]

4 minutes ago, Fredrik said:

instructions

I am not aware of any official instructions doing this via cat. The common way to move Armbian from sd to eMMC or NVMe is via armbian-install.

[Fredrik]

Ok thanks good to know! I was following primarily this one,
https://jamesachambers.com/orange-pi-5-ssd-boot-guide/

i did actually then use armbian-install.

 

So i f I use armbian-install, I can then wipe that boot partition and re-install again, or just over install on the boot partition?

 

Edited October 22 by Fredrik