Than you @homearesistant, registered just to say that your instructions work, I think the only missing part being that one needs to do apt install cifs-utils nfs-common
at some point too as they’re some dependencies, somewhere.
However, I gave up on running HA on my old EEEPC 1000HE, it was a good idea I guess (I wanted it especially that it still has a fairly decent battery! but the fan is rather noisy, albeit on the anemic side) but it’s WAY too much work with HA. It’s absolutely unreal how things break, first install I wrestled with it a little after installing systemd-resolved as it actually breaks DNS, I wrestled it back but then after installing HA it broke networking completely, I managed to bring it back by configuring the interface manually and run HA once … and then never came back after a restart.
After another reinstall and fiddling with it for a day to run the the core version in a python venv I managed to get it running by using the latest rust install from the web page (the Debian one was too old) but at some point it died with some python module dependency. Gave up on that too.
Then I had a last try using a wired network (I’ve been using wifi previously and I said maybe it’s a bit more involved configuration) and this supervised install and Docker, found this time this issue about systemd-resolved and disabled ipv6 and edited resolvd.conf, reinstalled systemd-resolved and network seems to be working, then did again the homeassistant-supervised.deb install and it killed my networking for good in this machine.
It’s unreal how bad and flimsy HA is on the networking side, and it wouldn’t matter a bit if it wouldn’t be so intrusive and demanding. Granted, our x86-32 install here is hack, on top of the last unsupported “other” option to install it, after HA Green, Raspi, HA Yellow, Odroid, x86-64. But on the other hand I have a pre-2010 USB(2!) stick with Ubuntu (full install, like on regular system drive), with even a VirtualBox XP machine. 32-bit of course coming from back then, I used it on many, many machines (including this one right now) it just works. Wired networking works out of the box, wireless needs for the first time on each machine to go in the network manager and change the device for the wifi network used (it’ll keep the credentials). Updated it from one LTS version to another (sometimes it took the whole night, thought it’ll kill the flash), it still gets updates (18.04 is out of regular support but probably they still push some patches now and then).
I’m sure Debian would be the same (maybe at some point in the future I’ll even switch to that, if I really need 32-bit, but for a boot drive on an old machine the Ubuntu 18.04 would do fine). If the OS itself just works I can’t understand why HA insists on shooting itself in the foot. But I guess it’s best to go with the crowd and stick with the Raspberry Pi 3 I’ve been using until now, no problem with that.