Armbian cannot install to hard drive

[yoha]

Hi, I wanted to install Armbian to my old Asus eee PC. So I made live USB containing the .iso and boot from there. I can login as root fine, but when running armbian-install, I only see the option of installing to sdb (my USB drive), but not to my sda (the laptop local drive). I am not sure what's the problem. Do I have to do something to the partition in sda? Currently Alpine Linux is installed in the local drive. Previous installation was Lubuntu (14, I think?).

 

I want to run pi-hole and there are not many supported OSes for pi-hole that still support x86, so I would like to make it work.

 

Armbian version: Armbian 25.5.1 Bookworm Minimal

[Werner]

I'd probably try to dd the Armbian image directly onto sda and boot.