Agreed. Please, @Marc_Lewis can you say what it is you want to achieve? Is it to use your Asrock motherboard as the basis for a Roon Server, or are you looking to have it as a Roon Endpoint? What are you using your Windows PC for in Roon?
I’m not using the windows pc for anything that is my wife’s pc. But don’t I have to use it to install any program on my streamer? I just want a music streamer. It’s been 4 months without a working streamer.
Hi Marc do you have a Roon server already?
My initial thought from reading this thread is that this was what you wanted, and hence the NUC discussion?
Regards
Mike
I had a 432 evo. It’s now the same sbc but it has a new mobo and ssd. I don’t want to use the same evo tuning I’m done with that guy. So tell me what I need to use roon? I don’t care if it’s roon core or endpoint or both as long as it works. I used my iPhone and iPad to control it I have Qobuz also not tidal. it was roon end point I guess you call it. That’s what I want to use. I got an old friend who owns microland computers in Mandeville La. He’s got a tech gonna do what I tell him to do. So I need to be squared away with what I ask him to do. They don’t normally do this kind of work but handle things much harder I assume, I think this may be easy for him, I’ll bring the unit to him.
Hey Marc so it’s sound like you need a Roon Server that also functions as a USB streamer.
(Just trying to get closer here)
If that’s the case the link @anon37652117 shared with you the other day is what you need.
If someone else is going to install it, you can get them to follow the install guide and burn a USB boot disk and then follow the instructions to install it and then install Roon.
It only takes a few hours from downloading the ISO file, to completing the installation and updating the OS and getting Roon running. I did a couple of installs earlier this year and they were very smooth and easy to follow.
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So roon server install? Or that deal Menzies has?
Marc
What @anon37652117 posted in this link.
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But you are a man of rare skill, and @Marc_Lewis has never installed it before
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It should be noted that to install and configure DietPi (or any other linux distro), @Marc_Lewis (or an installer on his behalf) will need to connect your SBC (the ASRock based minicomputer in this case) to a keyboard and monitor.
For DietPi - make sure that Dietpi-Dashboard is installed as well as Roon Server in the software install stage of the install.
In order to be able to manage a DietPi device some basic things, like managing the installed software, can be done using a Web Browser provided Diepi-dashboard is installed during the initial setup but more advanced operations may require the user to be able to use the linux command line via an SSH terminal (Putty) or the terminal built into dietpi-dashboard.
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I tried this again on my mac . Balenaetcher can’t open says not supported on this Mac. Unable to finish expanding diet pi native PC uefi. Roonbox linuxx 64 no mountable file system.
See what I go through. Doesn’t make any sense and Rufus wants to charge your cc if you don’t cancel in 3 days 39.00. Diet pi says to use Rufus and not the other one for uefi
Marc you must be doing this wrong.
Balenaetcher works well on multiple PCs and Mac’s for me
Can you not even get it installed?
Maybe post some screenshots of the downloader and message when running it
Twice I’ve downloaded etcher and successfully flashed the rock image on my pendrive. Then when I bring it to the server how can I get the server to boot from the pendrive? A guy is telling me he’s done that using the same hardware I have! I want to forget about the dietpi for now, so this is about Rock, I’m not kidding myself as someone said! The uefi is what I see?
I’d put a screen shot can’t figure it out. This sbc acts just like the one with the old ssd in it, it’s no different! I wonder if I have defected hardware? I couldn’t boot the other one with the old OS on it and this one looks identical without any OS? Trying not to bring this to someone one last time?
So I disabled fast boot again used the f8 on startup and came to a screen that ask me if I want to install rock, hit 1 and enter it’s frozen now. At least I got somewhere with this pos.
Marc I don’t know anything about your hardware, but I feel that a couple of people already pointed out that it was unlikely to work with Rock because of the chipset used.
If it is freezing on boot up that suggests that is probably the case. That is why DietPi was mentioned.
There might be BIOS settings you can change, but that will be trial and error.
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It’s starting to get to the point where some photos of the BIOS boot settings would help. And maybe some of the screen as it boots (or not).
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Like I said a guy had me buy this hardware and he specifically says rock works on it. At least the exact mobo he uses or says so anyhow. The ssd works too for rock he said. Rock I know it’s not supported on these sbc use at your own risk! I bought another usb stick and will load the dietpi on it from the windows pc not the macOS which didn’t work. And I can leave rock on the other pendrive. Bios I never could infiltrate.
For both ROCK and DietPi, the image installed on the USB stick is a bootable installer. It is not the OS itself.
I’ve flashed the dietpi on to the stick what’s next. Installed in sbc, it’s not like anything is gonna happen on its own right? Not knowing what to do next because this computer doesn’t operate like any other, I pushed f8, it asked me to install dietpi and two other items, had a keyboard this time and pushed enter. Screen went blank and that’s it.
I want to say also I can’t get to the bios. Only the uefi. Is there a way to do that?
I’ve gotten my unit back and I log in and see roon core. It showed me four modules that were unnamed. I named them but can’t get any sound out of my system? It was playing through my phone. I don’t want that at all.