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Hello All,
I am hoping some here will be interested in test
driving the Debian image I made with Open Media Vault installed.
It's Debian 11.7, and it comes up
talking.
The username is debian
the password is debian
The computer name is "computername" without the
quotes.
I will describe open media vault
below.
This would be a great way to repurpose an old
computer, desktop or laptop, to serve as a media server for your
home.
I've made a couple modifications:
I have installed SMXI, which is a utility that
installs about all the common CLI tools.
I also installed raspi-config, but not all the
Raspberry PI functions would work on a non-ARM computer.
That is right, this is for 32 and 64 bit X86
computers only.
I installed it on my Asus ePC, but when I installed
Debian, I selected the Kernel that has drivers for other devices, it said that
should make it boot up on a wider range of computers.
When it boots, after the login prompt starts, you
will hear it say
stand by for the ip address of this
computer
Since it likely isn't yet on your network, unless
you are connected Ethernet cable, it will just say
computername
So, if you run
sudo raspi-config
you will be able to configure the location, the
computer name, and WIFI.
Raspi-config also has a utility to expand the file
system to use the entire drive, if you wrote this image to a card larger than 32
GB.
It will not write to media smaller than 32 GB, I
wasn't able to figure out how to shrink the root FS, even though most of it was
empty.
After doing some things like this, you can set up
Open Media Vault.
What this does is to make that computer offer a
link on the network for streaming audio, and presumibly video too.
I plan on plugging in some audio from around the
house, like a cable box to listen to whatever channel I have it on, so I can go
outside for example, and still listen to the TV show I want to watch, or I
thought of streaming my Ham radio to the network, and putting my music on it to
stream from my smart phone.
I suspect you might be able to stream with a Victor
reader too, I don't know for sure about that.
You can open the web page to stream to your device
by putting in the IP address of the computer it is on, followed with a colon
8080
For example, if the computer you are running this
on is
192.168.1.115
you would log in to
192.168.1.115:8080
and select what you want to stream.
I think it can do lots more.
I haven't played with it, because I wanted to make
an image with no configurations, to save for other computers.
The default username and PW for open media vault,
that you will use on the log in page mentioned above, is:
admin openmediavault
They recommend that you change this.
Now, to set up open media vault, and if the
raspi-config does not work for you, OMV comes with a setup script for setting
the network, location, and to set up the OMV dashboard
To launch this, at the command
prompt,type:
omv-firstaid
BTW, although the Debian updates okay, there is an
error in the sources.list file, it probably got there when I was putting in the
OMV repository.
So if you can fix this, be sure to let me know what
the fix is, or just send me the fixed sources.list file, I looked through it,
and didn't find the error.
I put a link to a zipped ISO on my open drive, this
is a direct download link, and is pasted below.
I made the ISO from the SD card I installed it on,
using DD in Ubuntu, and then I used 7Zip on my windows computer to compress the
ISO.
This isn't installation media, it is a
working system to be written to media to be booted, like a thumb drive, SD card,
or any other bootable media, like an internal HD, with an operating system that
can be wiped out.
The zip file is Size: 5.75 GB (6,179,202,138
bytes)
Size on disk: 5.75 GB When you unzip it, you will have an ISO
file:
omv-tts.iso Size: 28.8 GB (31,016,878,080
bytes)
Size on disk: 28.8 GB Here's the download link:
Hope it works for folks, and let me know what you
think of it.
Glenn
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