why do you exclude those w/o a hell phone

[Robert Heller]

At Thu, 15 Jan 2026 03:11:03 -0500 "Ubuntu user technical support,? not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> 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.

The Banana Pi machines require specially built kernels and overlays.  Stock 
Ubuntu ISOs don't have those kernels / overlays. Armbian does have the proper 
kernels & overlays.

> >>
> >> 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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