Gave up after half an hour or more unplugged it for 10 secs, booted normally on power up but slow due to fchecking every drive in it, around 25Tb found the settings and turned that excrement off. Ignoring it to check. fix dinner, need a new cook, but I'd have to fire me. I think I've got it from here. Thank you, a bunch, eselarm.

However above that is a whole slew of failures "network unreachable" and ip a or ip r both show the help screen. Let me run armbian-config again, from here. Did, network didn't survive a reboot. Went to its own monitor and reran armbian-config, no net settings. reset them again. ping yahoo.com, worked. Ran sudo apt update, got 181 pkgs to update, did sudo apt upgrade -y & watched it for half an hour. Completed this time. rebooted, network survived. So I should be able to restore it from its own backups once I get it to mount the /raid6. Found it had a /raid6 dir for a mount point snooped thru /dev/disk/ to the by-id, found the file with myraid in its name, mounted it, ran df to see a normal report, then it suspended. Never did that before. Ever. Now, whats the magic potion that un-suspends it?, it went into suspension while I was logged in from here, and nothing I can do to the keyboard or mouse, local or remote wakes it up again. Power draw is down to about 7 watts. I need to totally disable that, how do it?

Using Network-manager as a slave to armbian-config, no root pw. sudo for everything. Let me see if I can login from "ssh -X gene@amanda" using the ip in my hosts file. Yes, so I can copy/paste: This is the final screen of a "sudo apt update" commend. Had to nuke my local keys first. E: The repository 'http://ports.ubuntu.com noble Release' no longer has a Release file. N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default. N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details. E: The repository 'http://ports.ubuntu.com noble-security Release' no longer has a Release file. N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default. N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details. E: The repository 'http://ports.ubuntu.com noble-updates Release' no longer has a Release file. N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default. N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details. E: The repository 'http://ports.ubuntu.com noble-backports Release' no longer has a Release file. N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default. N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details. E: The repository 'https://apt.armbian.com noble Release' no longer has a Release file. N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default. N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details. E: The repository 'https://github.armbian.com/configng stable Release' no longer has a Release file. N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default. N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details. Same thing I'm seeing on its own monitor.

must i connect it to pc?

I missed the fact that you have an orange pi zero 2w... I think there's a success experience with that orange pi in this thread or in this Allwinner section. Please share if you have success