Found a .img live OS that sounds like it will fit me needs. Flashed it to USB and, using UEI boot, the live OS pops right up and asks for login. I rooted around the fourm a little and did not see any one having trouble installing this (searching search engines coming up short too.) I’ve never installed an OS directly from an img. Its always had a little installer that works much black box magic. Can anyone refer me to some documentation for flashing this image to the HDD?
I’ll need to do some reformatting and partitioning too (installers i’ve used in the past let me run gparted or just take care of it for me.)
The img may even include an installer but I didn’t see the login credentials anywhere. I apologize if this was right in front of me and I missed it. I’ll keep looking and link whatever I find here for posterity.
I couldnt find them anywhere. Try cooker/cooker, root/toor and admin/admin? Otherwise you have this method to reset the password Reset root or user password - #3
Of course I assume you know what you’re doing if you chose a server install. .img images are supposed to be flashed directly to the desired disk via the ‘dd if file.iso of=/dev/sdX’ command. It is not meant to be flashed on an usb drive as it is already a fully installed system. If you want installer images, these are the .iso files, thatb can be flashed to usb. However I don’t think openmandriva has one of these for a server edition, maybe try the minimal edition (most similar one to a server install, but there are currently no build successful): Product minimal cooker x86_64 - Platform cooker - Openmandriva ABF
Or just take a very light desktop and uninstall it afterwards or keep it. Its honestly not too much of a CPU hog these days, but I understand wanting to minimize package numbers for security: Product cooker plasma6.x11 slim x86_64 - Platform - Openmandriva ABF
You can log in as “omv” with password “omv”. “omv” has access to sudo.
There’s an installer script in omv’s home directory.
It is built that way so you can use a more traditional install when installing directly to hardware, but you can also just keep the image and not use the installer when e.g. installing in a VM – no need to spin up a VM just to make it install a copy of itself first.
Yeah, I know enough to get myself it trouble While I had not flashed an img directly outside of Raspian and such (I’ve usually used the isos) I get the idea of it, the flash drive was my transportation vessel since I had no access to the existing OS. Thank you for pointing me towards disk dupl. This machine has a hardware RAID so a lot of unknowns for me. Im hoping its just virtualized as a file in /dev.
While I had not flashed an img directly outside of Raspian and such (I’ve usually used the isos) I get the idea of it, the flash drive was my transportation vessel since I had no access to the existing OS. Thank you for pointing me towards disk dupl. This machine has a hardware RAID so a lot of unknowns for me. Im hoping its just virtualized as a file in /dev.