indus Posted December 10, 2015 Posted December 10, 2015 I was using bananian for the last year(and I still do) on a M1 for a operational running webservice. Is it worth the time to switch to armbian? Are there any big differences? I want to switch the board sometime in the future; thats why I'm interested in the more flexible armbian in the first place. But right now I cant find a good alternative to the M1 for my use case.
Holsteiner Posted December 10, 2015 Posted December 10, 2015 My reason for armbian: - main line kernel - the forum is very responsive - fast updates/fixes/improvements from Igor, thank you - well prepared images (e.g. hostapd, wifi settings, etc.)
indus Posted December 10, 2015 Author Posted December 10, 2015 Thanks for the fast response (second bullet ;-) Maybe I just have to give it a try. I just was wondering why it is not listed/linked in the banana pi download section.
Skygod Posted December 11, 2015 Posted December 11, 2015 @indus, I've decided to go this route rather than bananian, as I'm looking for a distro that provides some 'commonality' across a number of SBC boards. For my current project a Banana Pi M1+ provides the hardware I require. I have plans for another SBC deployment within my (small) network, where a Raspberry Pi may be suitable and another where a Cubie may be best suited. Having a common distro across all these boards is why I chose this route.
Joost Posted January 4, 2016 Posted January 4, 2016 Hi Forum! Just for the fun of it, i would like to upgrade a working bananian installation to armbian. Does anybody here know if the steps needed are already described somewhere? Thanks for your time.
tkaiser Posted January 4, 2016 Posted January 4, 2016 i would like to upgrade a working bananian installation to armbian Which Bananian version using which kernel? Please provide the output of: uname -a cat /etc/bananian_platform cat /etc/bananian_version cat /etc/debian_version
Igor Posted January 4, 2016 Posted January 4, 2016 There is one brute force way, but it only covers u-boot, kernel and some of modifications. wget -q -O - http://upgrade.armbian.com | bash Check what it does in this video: Even I made many tests ... backup is recommended.
tkaiser Posted January 5, 2016 Posted January 5, 2016 Even I made many tests ... backup is recommended. Backup is highly recommended when trying to crossgrade from Bananian I would suspect? At least sources.list should also be adjusted and an 'aptitude purge u-boot-bananian' before? Since otherwise 'apt-get upgrade' will create a mess?
Igor Posted January 5, 2016 Posted January 5, 2016 Backup is highly recommended when trying to crossgrade from Bananian I would suspect? At least sources.list should also be adjusted and an 'aptitude purge u-boot-bananian' before? Since otherwise 'apt-get upgrade' will create a mess? Or from any other systems, yes. I am removing their sources.list but am not sure for all custom packages. In any case, they are not updating anymore if list is gone ...
Skygod Posted January 6, 2016 Posted January 6, 2016 ... they are not updating anymore if list is gone ... "Bananian will not boot on your Banana Pi M1, M1+, Pro and R1 any longer " Ouch!
Igor Posted January 6, 2016 Posted January 6, 2016 "Bananian will not boot on your Banana Pi M1, M1+, Pro and R1 any longer " Ouch! No, not that. Only the possible Bananian package is not updating any more if upgraded to Armbian.
tkaiser Posted January 7, 2016 Posted January 7, 2016 "Bananian will not boot on your Banana Pi M1, M1+, Pro and R1 any longer " This is just a quote from https://www.bananian.org/bananapi-m2#migrate_from_banana_pi_m1_m1_pro_and_r1(and true of course when you exchange the bootloader stuff for a different SoC). Anyway: I still would first check which hardware and which Debian/kernel version we're talking about before thinking about an upgrade.
choss38 Posted March 19, 2016 Posted March 19, 2016 Hi, the upgrade to Armbian worked for me from Bananian 15.04 Wheezy with Openmediavault 2 on Banana Pro without problems. The sources from Bananian were deleted automatically. I've just followed Igor instructions. Now I've Linux bananapi 3.4.110 sun7i. I needed Sunxi sndi2s driver for my Beaunanas (a Banana Nas server boxed in a French Burgondy Beaune wine bottle box in wood ) to make working my DAC with MPD, missed driver on Bananian 15.04. Thanks for Armbian ! 1
zgoda_j Posted March 22, 2016 Posted March 22, 2016 I found Armbian more contemporary and more friendly out of the box: systemd (yeah, I hate it as everybody else but this is just convenience if you had many other systems) bash as a default shell (zsh is not my beast) network configurations are easier to switch (symlinks in /etc/network) boot partition already mounted in filesystem more SBCs supported, makes hardware a commodity, the same distribution on many boards makes management easier (I have ~10 running 24/7 and another 3 - 4 occasionally) Other than that I did not found many reasons to switch from Bananian to Armbian, YMMV.
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