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  • Re: Android TV Boxes

    From Mindsurfer@VERT/FUNTOPIA to poindexter FORTRAN on Saturday, November 07, 2026 22:05:00
    Re: Re: Android TV Boxes
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Mindsurfer on Fri Nov 06 2026 20:30:32

    First you prepare a SDcard or USB stick with Armbian. You have to edit a
    text file there to match your exact hardware. To get into the bootloader
    you have to power on the device while holding down a little switch inside
    the av port (with a toothpick or so). Then you boot from SDcard or USB
    stick, setup your software and eventually use a script that comes with
    armbian (or armbian-config) to write everything to the emmc flash drive.
    There are several tutorials out there. This is one of those:
    https://github.com/berci9ke101/nexbox-a95x-armbian


    I'm picturing a stack of those things forming a cheap Proxmox cluster. Very cool!

    Sure, if you want to experiment like one did back in the early Raspberry Pi days, you have another inexpensive option now. =)
    But keep in mind that proxmox itself will need a quite big amount of space and that EMMC flash memory does wear out faster if you write alot of logs etc. to it. So it is maybe not perfect to run a proxmox server on it. But proof me wrong =)

    Mindsurfer

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