Umbrel as a NAS alternative

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Hi Fellow Noob,

I don’t have experience with Open Media Vault, but as it runs on Debian and supports open standards like SSH and SMB, you should be able to install Umbrel on top of these base layers. It maybe slightly difficult to find support answers within the Umbrel community, as most noobs are running on Raspberry Pis (a few on Linux).

Assuming you want to install on top of your existing setup, then consider creating a separate drive and install Umbrel:

curl -L https://umbrel.sh | bash -s – --install-path /yourdrivepath

more here:

Help setting up Ubuntu to run Umbrel

Alright! No worries we’ll go through this together , Before starting here are a few basic Unix commands that you want to know: cd name_of_the_directory : change directory, you’ll move yourself to the desired directory (move backward: cd .. ) ls : list all files and folders in the current directory pwd : gives you the absolute pathname of the current working directory mkdir name : creates a directory called 'name’ sudo name_of_command : Will execute the command as a root user. You…

Hope that helps!

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