why do you exclude those w/o a hell phone

[gene heskett]

On 1/14/26 16:40, Robert Heller wrote:
> I run Armbian on my Banana Pi M64.  The Banana Pi have a Wiki for their boards
> with download links (image files for uSD cards).  I have successfully updated
> and upgraded over the years I have had that little board.
>
> At Thu, 15 Jan 2026 08:19:11 +1100 kauer at biplane.com.au, "Ubuntu user technical support,? not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 2026-01-14 at 13:38 -0500, gene heskett wrote:
>>> I just wasted over an hour trying to send a msg via the web page,
>>> trying to get around the demand for a hell fone number.
>> Who were you trying to contact?
The forum via the web page for it.
>>
>>> have NDU for a hell fone
>>
>> NDU?
No D----- USE
>>
>>> 1. Do you have an LTS that will boot on arm64's like the bananapi-m5?
>> My experience with small systems like that has been that there are
>> special distros (like raspbian etc), and the right place to find such
>> would probably be forums dedicated to those little systems.
Like armbian, turns out something has  gone wonky in my net setup, some 
machines can browse the world, next one can't find the world even when 
the dns works.
>>
>> If there is a distro for your hardware available from Canonical, it
>> would be visible on or via their releases page, though you might need
>> to do a bit of spelunking:
None of the ubuntu iso's will even try to boot on a bpi-m5.  Armbian 
works just fine,  Still scratching head. Rebooted router, no changes noted.
>>
>> https://www.releases.ubuntu.com/
>> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/
>>
>> Most of the releases under the second link are not supported by
>> Canonical themselves. A quick look shows that there are certainly arm64
>> versions of things.
I looked at them all, all boot from hacked grub.  Armbian's use bootp.
>>
>>> 2. How much would you charge me for going over the 5 machine limit?
>> This sounds like you are talking about Ubuntu Pro. You don't have to
>> use Ubuntu Pro to use Ubuntu. Unless you do in fact need something that
>> is only in Ubuntu Pro, you can just use plain ol' Ubuntu. Otherwise,
>> the pricing is here:
>>
>> https://ubuntu.com/pricing/pro
>> Looks like it'll cost you $25 per year per additional workstation, but
>> I have to admit it is not clear whether if you go to non-personal
>> pricing you then have to pay for ALL workstations, or just any extras
>> above 5.
>>
>> Caveat: I don't know much about Ubuntu Pro, and nothing at all about
>> the bananapi-m5.
A bpi-m5 is a sligtly faster rpi4b. All usb ports are usb3.1.
>>
>> Best of luck!
Thank you. I think now I may have a router (dd-wrt) problem.
>> Regards, K.
> Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.

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