When you start Nextcloud for the first time, you’ll make an account and go through some initial configuration. Ssh user name is your Ubuntu SSO user name. Once setup is done, you can login to a machine on the same network with SSH: Follow the instructions on the screen.Īt the end of the process, you will see your credentials to access your device: Press ENTER and select “Start” to begin configuring your network and admin account. The device will display a prompt to configure. The system will boot and become ready to configure. It will then boot from the internal memory where your appliance image has been flashed. Reboot the system and remove the flash drives when prompted.Xzcat /media/ubuntu// | sudo dd of=/dev/ bs=32M status=progress sync Run the following command, where disk label is the label of the second USB flash drive:.
Open a terminal and use the following command to find out the target disk device to install the appliance to: sudo fdisk -l.Once the Ubuntu session has started, insert the second USB flash drive containing the appliance image file.Select the USB flash drive as a boot option.Start the NUC and push F10 to enter the boot menu.Insert the first USB flash drive, containing Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 LTS.Connect your USB hub, keyboard, mouse and monitor to the NUC.Flash the USBsĭownload and copy the Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 LTS image on the first USB flash drive by following the live USB Ubuntu Desktop tutorial for Ubuntu.Ĭopy the Nextcloud Ubuntu Appliance image you downloaded on to the second USB flash drive. Click import and you will have the key set up. Add your keys to your account at by running the following command in your terminal: cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pubĬopy the result into the text field on the website. Your Ubuntu Appliance will be added to your Ubuntu cloud account and use your SSH keys to identify you. You now have a public and private key that you can use to authenticate. When the ssh-keygen utility prompts you for a passphrase. When you execute this command, the ssh-keygen utility prompts you to indicate where to store the key, press ENTER to accept the default location. To generate them run the following command in the terminal: ssh-keygen -t rsa The ‘Secure Shell’ protocol provides access to your Ubuntu Appliance and uses cryptographic keys to authenticate you to the device. A network connection with Internet access.An Intel NUC with BIOS updated to the latest version ( update instructions).Two USB 2.0 or 3.0 flash drives (2GB minimum).