IRC #olimex 2017-06-24

[10:47:18] <keesj> lo
[10:47:53] <keesj> I got myself a few new a10 lime boards and I want to install a nice / fresh debian on it
[10:49:17] <keesj> I have quite happely been running debian jessie on the board I am using as "home" server
[10:49:43] <keesj> but It looks like the main wiki page https://www.olimex.com/wiki/A10-OLinuXino-LIME#Linux does not even mention that this is possilble
[10:50:49] <keesj> or does "The official Debian images are suitable only for microSD card. Information on booting Debian from the NAND might be found at the forum. " mean the official images "as release by debian"
[10:55:02] <keesj> and there is also https://docs.armbian.com/ but I do not really understand what it is
[13:18:58] <diego71> armbian is a derivative of debian, that support some more arm boards then plain debian
[22:29:11] <adj__> keesj, debian installer support several boards based on allwinner SOCs, including olinuxinos, for some time
[22:29:12] <adj__> https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Allwinner
[22:30:42] <adj__> and as diego71 said, also armbian has good olinuxino support
[22:32:41] <adj__> arm boards supported by main Linux distributions should be the norm, sadly it is the exception
[23:44:56] <keesj> thanks