I do not understand these - It looks like you have tried everything under the sun… is that the case? Some of those elements you mentioned are not compatible with others. So they (understandably) would not work if/when you mix and match.
At this point, I would recommend we focus on the HAOS install method, and put the other 3 methods aside:
Home Assistant Operating System Home Assistant Container Home Assistant Supervised Home Assistant Core
Now, @trentjw , could you help elaborate your metal box setup? Let’s focus on the hardware first. What do you have?
At this point, from the errors and logs and things you have been through, the HA core install method might not be the best method for you.
And if you agree to the above, I’d maintain my recommendations on #17 of this thread.
Now, there are other questions in this threads so far we do not yet have answers for. Let us know when you have the answers, and then we will figure out how to help.
Also. Let’s be civil and stop calling anyone clowns. I mean, it’s certainly OK if you think anyone a clown, but you can always choose to keep it to yourself, control your responses, carefully craft what you actually want to say/ask, so that to stay on topic, isn’t it?
After this failed install I. Tried to. Use haos every download of it was corrupt and fails to write to multiple known USB sticks so I decided to go back to what I am familiar with and muck about until I find a solution
The image then was probably corrupted while you were downloading it. Do you checked the sha256sum or how you have certainty the image file were corrupted? Also which type of storage do you use to save the file? Could be also a corrupted filesystem or drive
Sigh. Alright. You get this error because some HA core component uses code written in Rust. And it needs a Rust compiler to compile it. And you don’t have that. The latest HA core will not function without a Rust compiler. So you need to install one.
That compiler needs to be available from the user you run hass as. That’s extremely important. Open a console and switch to the user you created for running hass. If you followed the tutorial above, that would be the homeassistant user.
sudo -u homeassistant -H -s
Now try to run the Rust compiler to see if it’s available.