I am convinced I need a 3rd device to act as my boot device so I’m adding one. Same problem as before, no mounting solution in my home desktop pc, fortunately I have a 2.5” notebook drive so it does not need much room, and I still have some extra sata cables on my old PC. Zip-Ties again:
This time the manual storage configuration went smoothly. I set the 0.5TB drive as boot device, then created a 1GB /boot partition. This left the two 4TB drives available to configure the simple Raid 1 mirror as md0 which I mounted as / ,the root of the file system. Below is a picture of the final configuration:
The next screen offered up some unexpected dessert. Two of my primary target technologies were available as “snaps”, the NextCloud application and the docker system. Not sure what a snap is, but it’s worth attempting an unexpected short-cut so I selected them.
The next page asked if I wanted OpenSSH installed by default, why off-course thank you very much. The install went extremely fast, and voila, I could ssh in from my PC:
Must wait until tomorrow to play with this OS!