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 w…

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.

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.

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Your comment is OT. I actually wanted to use Umbrel on a VPS for a media server and more.

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 B…

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” ?

Install umbrelOS on a VPS

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Sad, very sad.

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