My understanding is you shouldn't use linuxserver's Home Assistant image as this is only "HA Core", so you can never use addons. Maybe you don't need them now, maybe you do, but locking yourself in seems poor.
It's fairly easy to get the PPC talking to a modern computer. This lets you do cool tricks like Toot from it by using things like https://github.com/ihabunek/toot on the host
All the advice on articles like https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/47080/mounting-iso-in-linux-kde don't work in modern KDE, or are about mounting .iso files, which is now built in, or a disk image as read only.
I needed to mount disk images read/write, which appears to be more complicated because it needs to run as root, so prompt for the password, fingerprint or what have you.
Recently I got around to playing with an Amstrad PPC I'd had for a while but not tried to get running. I even had the thin version of the manual, ruck sack, power supply and half the system disks.
The good news is - it's easy ! I'm not even a hardware guy :)
If you want to know the gory details, please read https://rachaelandtom.info/content/newton-linux
You will need
- http://applenewton.co.uk/shop/ - http://applenewton.co.uk/2019/04/30/best-usb-to-rs232-cable-for-ncx-and-newtons/
You could build your own, like back in the day, or cobble bits together from Amazon or EBay, but this just takes the risk out.
NCU in VirtualBox
Well that's the end of btrfs for me; barely a month in it's shat itself and taken my /home with it.
I've lived this long without metadata checksum and snapshot...
I was able to extract a list of trees, even though it wouldn't mount, even with the various recovery options, using
btrfs-find-root /dev/mapper/vgkubuntu-home
This will split out a bunch 'well' things. I got lucky and when I passed the number of one of those to
/tmp as tmpfs - https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/tmpfs
logs that don't go on forever - https://github.com/azlux/log2ram
systemd logs that don't go on forever /etc/systemd/journald.conf:
SystemMaxUse=50M
Faster, more responsive kernel (if stuck on an LTS for everything else) : https://liquorix.net/#install
Get or compile https://github.com/qca/open-plc-utils in particular `plcstat`
For some reason it only reports devices other than the one connected to, so you will need at least two machines to monitor the whole network, and it has to be run as root.
So I have two root crontab's that sync to the same place the results of `....plcstat -i wlan0 -t` which looks like