No official support (CSC)
Armbian Focal
Armbian Buster
Armbian Focal
minimal mainline kernel 4.19.y
High level of software maturity
Armbian Buster
minimal mainline kernel 4.19.y
High level of software maturity
Hold power button for about 7-8 seconds to power the device up. Boot log: http://ix.io/1r19
Known problems:
- HDMI is not working and will probably never,
- onboard wireless is too fragile, disabled by default.
Specifications
1000tx 2GB 32bit 4 core docker mpci sata switch usb3 wireguard Mediatek MT7623N
* Specifications differ from hardware revision, model and software support level
FAQs
Preparation
Make sure you have a good & reliable SD card and a proper power supply. Archives can be uncompressed with 7-Zip on Windows, Keka on OS X and 7z on Linux (apt-get install p7zip-full). RAW images can be written with Etcher (all OS). Where images are compressed with .xz you can wrtite them to the SD card with Etcher directly.
Boot
Insert the SD card into the slot, connect a cable to your network if possible or a display and power your board. (First) boot (with DHCP) takes up to 35 seconds with a class 10 SD Card.
Login
Log in as: root Password: 1234. Then you are prompted to change this password (US-Keyboard setting). When done, you are asked to create a normal user-account for your everyday tasks.
We provide CLI (command line interface) images first. If the software is stable enough we add the option to upgrade to XFCE desktop. The Build-System relies on Debian and Ubuntu. The availability of different images may vary, most of the time because of driver restriction. Sometimes we provide only testing images.
All images can be built from sources at any time and in rare cases, where you can't find an image which you need, you can build one.
Each supported Armbian image can be made from scratch – from latest kernel and u-boot sources, updated upstream packages and our most recent bug fixes and improvements. Supported build environment for SDK is Ubuntu Bionic 18.04 x64 but you can run it containerised virtually on any X64 based Linux distribution under Docker. You can re-make live bootable image or just a kernel+dtb(hardware configuration) package which you transfer to your image and install with:
dpkg -i linux-image-[branch]-family.deb linux-dtb-[branch]-family.deb
. In that process you can enforce many customization. To the kernel or user space. Read more. Tested 3rd party hardware

2.5" drive
anyNo limits

3.5" drive
anyNo limits

External enclosure
JMS567USB3.0

SD card
A132GB

UART
CH340GUSB2.0

USB Bluetooth
CSRUSB2.0 / v4.0

USB Ethernet
ax88179USB3.0 1000Mbps

USB Ethernet
RTL8153USB3.0 / 1000Mbps

USB WiFi AC
8811auUSB2.0 / 433Mbps

USB WiFi AC
8812AUUSB3.0 / 876Mbps

USB WiFi AC
8814AUUSB3.0 / 1300Mbps

USB WiFi AC
8814AUUSB3.0 / 1300Mbps

USB WiFi AC
MT7610USB2.0 / 433Mbps

mPCI SATA x 4
marvellSATA controller

mPCI WiFi AC
QCA9882876Mbps

mPCI WiFi AC
QCA98901300Mbps

mPCI WiFi
ar9380450Mbps

mPCI WiFi
AR9382300Mbps
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Builds were tested for booting and basic operations.Variant | EU | USA | Asia | Torrent | User space | Kernel | Integrity check | Size | Last modified | |
Buster minimal | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | stable | 4.19.y | SHA | ASC | 121M | Feb 4 2021 |
Focal minimal | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | stable | 4.19.y | SHA | ASC | 115M | Feb 4 2021 |