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@realies cheers, thanks! IVPN looks good, may go that route. VPS sounds interesting and not all that difficult, too, if I can find a way to do it safely for my usage.

Anyone have tips on getting sharing working? I'm using the Realies image routed through Qbittorrent VPN docker w/ Mullvad, which no longer supports port forwarding. Does that mean I'm out of luck and should just ignore the nasty chats I keep getting about not sharing files?

Looking for some creative hardware advice. I'm relatively new to hardware, so am not sure I'm going down the right path here. I have a MSI B560I which only has one PCIE lane, which I currently have an HBA connected to. I'd like to add a GPU to my system primarily for transcoding because the iGPU is so slow. I tried this M.2 to PCIE extension because my case (a Fractal Node 304) is out of space. I connected it to the bottom M.2 slot on the MB, but it seemed to have fried my SSD I had in the top slot, I think because I had improperly powered it (not positive, but after powering the extension on, the SSD was no longer detected). I found this alternative option, and am looking for any general advice about extensions like these and the efficacy of installing a GPU with one. I understand it won't be able to work at full power, so perhaps I could install the HBA with it and put the GPU in the dedicated x16 slot? Or is this just all a bad idea?

I believe it is something misconfigured with how the share is mounted in the VM, as I'm able to install directly to the VM disk without issue.

I have an Ubuntu VM set up which I am using as a remote host in VSCode, however I'm running into an issue setting up projects. One of my projects uses create-react-app. When running `npm install`, it slows to a crawl and eventually fails: npm ERR! code ENOTSUP npm ERR! syscall symlink npm ERR! path ../acorn/bin/acorn npm ERR! dest <path>/node_modules/.bin/acorn npm ERR! errno -95 npm ERR! nospc ENOTSUP: operation not supported on socket, symlink '../acorn/bin/acorn' -> '<path>/node_modules/.bin/acorn' npm ERR! nospc There appears to be insufficient space on your system to finish. npm ERR! nospc Clear up some disk space and try again. I have the VM mapped to a share on my server. Perhaps there is an issue with how that is setup? Anyone know how I could get around this? I did find a suggestion to use the `-no-bin-links` flag, after which install does finish, but when running `npm start`, I'm told react-scripts doesn't exist even though I confirmed it is installed in `node_modules`.

Thanks! I do have an attached monitor, but there was nothing on the screen when I switched inputs over. I didn't have my monitor on the Unraid box's output when I rebooted, so I didn't see what may have happened in the process. I haven't gotten the onboard GUI working properly yet. It seems something happened to the external HDD during the copy process, because now Unraid and my Mac won't recognize/mount it. It's possible it died, it was pretty old. Nothing of import on it, fortunately, just some easily replaceable media files.

How long should it take to reboot? A similar thing happened to me -- I was logged out, cache drives wouldn't show up, in-progress file transfers aborted, and the login popup wouldn't come back up. So, I figured I might as well reboot (I'm just getting things setup and transferred over so the server isn't really in use yet), and now it's been sitting on the REBOOT screen for "1251" seconds (?). That seems excessive, no? Edit: I just did the "dangerous" thing and hard powered it off. After rebooting, logs indicated a problem with the attached USB drive I was copying from and after disconnecting it, it booted fine. This has been a bit of a finicky setup process, but hopefully things smooth out once it's all done.

No luck -- that's the same solution that worked for @Crafter, isn't it? I don't get have a non-EFI boot option available to select in BIOS unless I put BIOS in CSM mode, but doing so I get stuck in a boot loop where I'm given two options to select, the UEFI USB drive and Setup. When I select UEFI USB, it goes back to the selection screen. If I go back to setup, I'm no longer in CSM mode. I can disable UEFI USB, but I don't get a USB boot option in that case, only BIOS setup. Any idea what I might be missing? Edit: I guess this is really a nice to have, so perhaps I'm just wasting my time anyway....

I'm having the same problem with a new build, and the above solution doesn't seem to be working for me. Hoping someone has suggestions, as I've hit a bit of a wall after trying various combinations of settings and reading all the relevant threads I could find. Specs: MSI B560i i5 10400 w/ iGPU 2x SATA + 2x M2 drives installed 2x 8GB DDR4 BIOS recognizes all hardware, everything seems working fine on that front. Initially when starting up, I only got BIOS setup, no other options. After much fiddling, I finally got my Unraid install USB as a boot option after making these changes: - Updated BIOS - UEFI mode - Legacy USB enabled - Changed EFI- to EFI on USB boot drive Changing any of those back and I don't get an option to book into Unraid. So now I can boot into Unraid, great! But after selecting Unraid GUI, I see the startup log screen (not long enough to get much info), then I end up at a blinking cursor like others here. So I tried: - Initiate Graphic Adapter = IGD - no change - Booting in CSM - no option to boot into Unraid I saw others mention installing an Intel GPU driver, but I don't know how to do that. I don't actually know for sure yet if it's a GPU issue. Can I get to logs somehow to verify? Any help would be appreciated! I'm relatively new to hardware (built my first PC last year), and new to Unraid, so I'm still learning. Thanks!