Hi,
I’ve been waiting for months for this new update for all Linux system, I already ordered and paid a VPS to accommodate the new Umbrel OS, and it seems that for the install it requires to plug a USB stick!
What happened to the old curl command to install?
How can I install umbrel OS on a VPS where I have no physical access?
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Hi, I am also wondering how to install it in a VM. I see a .img release here which is not a usb installer. Unfortunately I was not able to get it ro run with VirtualBox. Hopefully there will be a VM image soon to ease the installation.
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I ran into the same issue trying to boot it in a VM on my Synology. The .iso cannot be read from the BIOS, both legacy and UEFI.
Steps I tried:
-Downloading the non-usb .img.xz
-Unpacking to .img
-Converting to .iso
Unfortunately, my VPS provider doesn’t support booting from your own .iso but only preinstalled images (Ubuntu, Debian…)
And I already paid the VPS for one year.
Sad, very sad.
Your comment is OT. I actually wanted to use Umbrel on a VPS for a media server and more.
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I just managed to get to the installation menu of UmbrelOS in a virtual machine. My way:
- Choose one of the images as boot image (just as a placeholder, they do not seem to work with VMs)
- Flash umbrelos-amd64-usb-installer.img.xz on a physical usb drive with Balena
- Inject the usb drive into the VM
- Boot up the UEFI, it will not boot into the boot image
- Type ‘exit’ and enter
- Open boot menu
- Choose usb drive to boot into
This method won’t work for a VPS as most of them won’t allow you to boot your own image.
Sorry, what you mean “OT” ?
Your comment was Off Topic.
meaning:
OT = OFF TOPIC
I’m at in the same scenario, i use OCI, the free tier VM that i get there, is ARM/AARCH64 architecture, and there is no way to boot an image in their console. Please, if you solv this, share with us.
I might be mistaken but the latest AMD64 image can’t be installed on an ARM device. I think the RPi is based on ARM, maybe you can use its image and try that out on a VM.