Given the wide variety of Armbian supported devices, and the images available for these devices, it's important to understand what will and will not work with an Openmediavault 7 installation.\\
Given the wide variety of Armbian supported devices, and the images available for these devices, it's important to understand what will and will not work with an Openmediavault 7 installation.\\
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**OMV7** will install on most SBC devices with Armbian support and a **Debian 12 __Bookworm__** image.\\
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**OMV7** will install on most SBC devices with Armbian support __AND__ a **Debian 12 __Bookworm__** image.\\
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Further, before selecting a Bookworm image, note that Armbian supports devices with differing levels of support. See -> [[https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Board-Support-Rules/|this page]] for an explanation of the different support levels. Devices with "Standard support" or "Community support" images are acceptable. While **Staging - Work in progress** images may work, they are not supported and are used at the users risk.
Further, before selecting a Bookworm image, note that Armbian supports devices with differing levels of support. See -> [[https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Board-Support-Rules/|this page]] for an explanation of the different support levels. Devices with "Standard support" or "Community support" images are acceptable. While **Staging - Work in progress** images may work, they are not supported and are used at the users risk.
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* **Jammy**, **Trixie** and other non-Bookworm variants are **not** supported.
* **Jammy**, **Trixie** and other non-Bookworm variants are **not** supported.
* Images at the bottom of some device pages under the heading of "**Rolling releases from CI pipeline**" are **not supported**.
* Images at the bottom of some device pages under the heading of "**Rolling releases from CI pipeline**" are **not supported**.
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* **Bookworm** images at the very bottom of some device pages, with the warning "**Made with official Armbian build framework but untested by the Armbian team**", are not supported. While they usually work, they're auto generated for test purposes, for software developers.
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* **Bookworm** images at the very bottom of some device pages, with the warning "**Made with official Armbian build framework but untested by the Armbian team**", are not supported. While these images usually work, they're auto generated for test purposes, for software developers.
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(These images are built nightly. Usually their date will be the current day or a few days before. Typically, **Auto generated images** have **login warnings** as noted below. Read and heed the warning.)\\
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(These images are built nightly. Usually their date will be the current day or a few days before. Typically, **Auto generated images** have **login warnings** as noted below. **Read and heed the warning**. If user's install one of these development images, -> [[https://wiki.omv-extras.org/doku.php?id=omv7:utilities_maint_backup#cloning_flash_media|Cloning the OS SD-card]], before OS updates, is highly recommended.)\\