@AeonCypher Let me guess:
It has a Denverton or Celeron J SoC ?

• The fact that is has an HDMI port should make this a walk in the park, like your average Desktop...

At worst some Server Installs boot with an enabled SSH server in live mode and allow you to remotely use the install on a headless machine...

• Personally I'd use #TrueNAS core with #ZFS but depending on how much storage you chug into it that')) not be a good option.

And if this is using #ARM64 instead then your only option is a Linux image or #ARM+#UEFI bootable ISO.

• Also those are M.2 slots (not shure if B or M-Key!) and NOT SD-card slots!

@AeonCypher maybe check out if it has a #BIOS?

It does have a #MicroSD slot (or #nanoSIM I'm not shure) so you may find some boot settings...

@AeonCypher Also it's not #amd64 / #ix86 but #arm64...

Found some #documentation for it:
https://wiki.friendlyelec.com/wiki/index.php/CM3588_NAS_Kit

@kkarhan I'm going to use their Debian fork OpenMediaVault.
Balena -> Sd Card -> EMMC

Then install OpenVault and Jellyfin.

In theory it seems like it should all be easy.

It's never actually that easy...

I suspect dealing with my router and exposing it safely to the internet is going to take 10x the time as setting it up.

@AeonCypher personally I'd avoid that and if I can't use a #VPN, use #SSH to do so instead.

• After all, this is a board for a fanless media streaming and NAS setup that'll likely only barely saturate it's 2.5BaseT-NIC...

@kkarhan Err...

My first attempt here was a failure. As far as I can tell OpenMediaVault anticipates it's going to be started plugged into a router or something.

I don't like things I don't understand, so I'm installing Debian or whatever image makes the most sense to me on it.

@AeonCypher I guess #OpenMediaVault is doing a "#NetInstaller" approach and thus they just use a minimal linux to boot and then just let it download the necessary packages and/or base image on the fly.

• This does make sense as they'd only have to ship one image per architecture / boot option and not have people be confused by a dozen or so images at install, at the cost of requiring a fully working network with internet access...

It's also quite an old tradition on many #linux distros, tho #Debian and others do offer regular offline-installable "live-server" images that'll do just fine.

• Personally I'm more proficient in #UbuntuLTS but if all you want os do provide a shitload of convenient storage on your LAN and via the Internet, basically any #linux that can get your required packages to run will work fine.

I wished I had OS/1337 developed far enough to be an option as of now to at least curl & dd something on an SSD, but I'm confident you'll be able to get stuff setup starting from a Debian "minimal" install...