![]() The new harddisks didn’t show up, and the USB drive supposed to be the boot device also was gone (with the system happily booting off the SD card I cloned to earlier). For reasons I still don’t understand, that completely removed any usb disk devices from the Ubuntu system. The final snap was when I had the base system up running beautifully off it’s USB drive, had that cloned to a SD card for good measure, and then went and installed the hard disk drives. In retrospect I am certain that the Raspberry Ubuntu Server image only became available after I had spent a day trying to upgrade the older version, but that might be just me justifying my excitement getting this Raspberry board set up -) Then after some googling I managed to find the brand-new raspberry image of 22.04 server, which worked from the get-go - so a lot of hand-wringing about nothing. I tried running this from the SD card, the USB drive, no difference. The update process hung endlessly, doing (or not doing) unfathomable things with no feedback about what was going awry. My setup happened right around the time when Ubuntu 22.04 came out - but I initially attempted to install the previous LTS version and upgrade from there, no joy at all. This is not something that will necessarily recur for other users - but I did have a really hard time getting the initial Ubuntu system to my desired state. I chose to run the raspberry operating system off a USB(3) drive located on the main-board, to have a clear separation between system and storage concerns. The box is very accessible when removing the two (magnet-held) covers, and while getting the raspi 4 board in place with the ports lined up properly takes a few mindful moments, putting everything together is obvious, easy and satisfying. Sounds silly, but the scredriver that comes with the Eon is pure bliss. Installing the parts is what I can only describe as immensely satisfying. Not a realistic expectation considering the overall dimensions of the Eon, but I didn’t really think about that up front. The highlight: it includes a seriously fantastic screwdriver! The one thing that I wasn’t aware of pre-buy is that the case only has room for two 3.5” and two 2.5” hard disks - was expecting four 3.5”-sized bays. It comes in a nice box with professional packaging, and is a robust, solid-feeling affair that is cleverly designed and a joy to look at and handle. The Argon Eon is all I expected it to be.
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