Alright, the StartOS desktop is syncing the Blockchain now. It was pretty smooth. A piece of cake compared to setting up a server from scratch. It's now syncing the blockchain.
A couple notes from my experience:
- I had to use the non-free iso when installing StartOS because I had an Nvidia graphics card.
- I have two drives, and StartOS will give you the option to install the OS one one and use the other as storage. In 0.4, they'll be adding the ability to use more drives.
- You can't change the keyboard layout yet, so I accidentally typed in the server password as if I were in dvorak on the qwerty layout, which made logging in remotely very difficult. I opted to just reinstall and type it in properly.
- I don't know if the server supports wifi. So I connected it via Ethernet.
- I could easily add a user and share in my Synology NAS for StartOS to use for backups over smb. I think I already had the smb server enabled, so I just needed to put in the server and login info and it worked.
- I'm going to look into the StartOS SDK and see if I can't package up a couple of services I'm running on my current server like invoice plane and hedgedoc.
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2024-08-18 23:17:06
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