What version of Armbian Buster for HC2: Regular or Minimal?

Hello all,

about to upgrade from OMV4 to 5 and want to do a clean install. The Armbian website offers me two different versions of Buster for the Odroid HC2 to download: the regular version with a 4.14.y Kernel and the Minimal version with a 5.4.y Kernel. Both are considered stable. Which one do I take? Can I use minimal, and if yes, should I?

Thanks

My intention of asking here was NOT to be the guinea pig

Alright, if I have everything ready to start sometime this evening and don't get some clear guidance from someone here until then I will try it out with minimal and the 5.4 kernel.

I am working off of a pdf that I got somewhere here called "addendum A: Installing OMV5 on Armbian SBC's". That is basically describing the same thing. Only that I have to substitute all the windows-software used in the guide with the Linux equivalent.... the process is pretty basic, no mystery there, just using it to see if any unusual things have to be considered along the way. Seems not. So that is a yes to your question. The guide just fails to make a mention of the two available options of Armbian Buster (or I failed to find it), and I did not find this info anywhere else.

So my question was rather: is the Buster Minimal missing anything I would need for OMV5, and is it playing nice with the 5.4.83 kernel it comes with?

Ok, did not have time to pursue this for a while, but did so now. Using the Minimal image worked ok, no issues until now. Thank you for the information. I wanted to keep the downtime as short as possible, as the whole family has become very used to the comforts of network attached storage and services like a DLNA music server. A prolonged interruption of this service would have resulted in unpleasant consequences for me.

Zitat von Agricola

..In the guide section of the forum, the fourth listing down has the latest guide for installing OMV5 on an arm board.

Thats exactly the one I was following. But the install is pretty straightforward: check your sd card, download image, check hash, flash image, first boot, ssh update upgrade reboot, ssh run omv install script, after reboot web ui is available (from memory). The guide is useful for default passwords, copying the installscript and so on. Written for Windows users, so you have to find the equivalent tools to use if you are on Linux. Many can be used on both platforms, like Balena Etcher and Putty.

Zitat von macom

Make sure to make a clone of the SD card.

And of the data of course

Done and done. Wouldn't want to explain to my wife that her files, nor to my daughters that the music is gone.