My goal is to get Nextcloud running on my Raspberry Pi4.
New to this, so I’ll try to spell out what I’ve done so far:
- Ordered Pi4 kit from Canakit with NOOB pre-installed on SD card.
- Ran the default, recommended OS installation (Pi OS).
- First tried running NextCloudPi instructions here for terminal. (I was confused about what was needed for ‘/dev/sdx’ so the first time I put ‘/dev/sda’ and got an error saying “no space left on device.” Then I tried ‘/dev/mmcblk0’ and that seemed to work. Not sure what was written where with first attempt.)
- After that was done, it was not clear to me what the next steps were. I wasn’t sure what the previous attempt did so then I tried the curl installation. This failed with error, “Unable to parse package file /var/lib/dpkg/status… The package cache file is corrupted.” So I didn’t think that did anything. (Before this ran, it said something about “this will disable SSH login for the root user and reset its password.”)
- I figured I would reboot the system just to sort of see how bad I might have messed things up. I saw the rainbow screen, but then instead of the regular startup screen, it just listed out of bunch of boot activities.
- Then it stopped on “NCP is not activated yet…” Ah! So looks like it was installed somehow. But then it asks for “nextcloudapi login.” I searched and tried many options. None of them work. (root/vagrant, pi/raspberry, admin/1234, etc)
So I’m stuck here now because I can’t get past this login request for Nextcloud. I’m not even sure how to get back to my Pi OS (or if it’s even still there) because this happens on boot and I’m not sure how to get around it.
Should I re-flash my SD card and start over? Or am I not as far off as it seems?