OrangePi (local)

OrangePi 5 to try out things in the office. Installed Debian, seems fine so far. Here is how to Install cinnamon on Debian.

Cockpit

Up and running:
Cockpit

Webmin

Up and running:
https://192.168.178.36:10000/
Can add virtualmin and make it a web hosting control panel.


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Maybe can run proxmox.

Proxmox ARM running on the Orange Pi 5 with NVMe!
by u/TheWingsOfWar in Proxmox

includes how to boot from NVME SSD

It should be similar to Raspberry Pi

https://youtube.com/watch?v=NAA5R4tb7G8%3Ffeature%3Doembed

There’s an installtion script for Raspberry Pi here. It might work.

Boot From NVME SSD

Lots of people online (when you search for “orange pi unable to see NVME SSD”) insisting that you must have a SATA SSD instead, but get through all that and these instructions worked ok for me.
Orange Pi 5 NVMe/SATA SSD Boot Guide
And here is a PDF just in case.
But as usual it turned out to be not so easy. Eventually this page instructions worked, but the first one has a better way to clone the system from the SD to the SSD.
Here’s a pdf again just in case.

If you get messages about graphics drivers,sudo add-apt-repository ppa:liujianfeng1994/panfork-mesa sudo add-apt-repository ppa:liujianfeng1994/rockchip-multimedia sudo apt update sudo apt dist-upgrade sudo apt install mali-g610-firmware rockchip-multimedia-config