# New to home labbing having trouble with 45D repo and tools

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**Created:** [March 23, 2024, 8:04am UTC](https://forum.45homelab.com/t/new-to-home-labbing-having-trouble-with-45d-repo-and-tools/1307 "2024-03-23T08:04:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![ProtoBill](https://forum.45homelab.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/e495f1/32.png) [@ProtoBill](https://forum.45homelab.com/u/ProtoBill)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2024, 8:04am UTC](https://forum.45homelab.com/t/new-to-home-labbing-having-trouble-with-45d-repo-and-tools/1307/1 "2024-03-23T08:04:22Z")

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So I have a used storinator loaned to me to practice and learn on.

There was no active partition on the hard drives, so i installed rocky 9.3 via ipmi/kbm over local network.

Only problem now is its throwing errors when I try to install the 45Drives repository and tools.

After reading the documentation on the support site, I’m assuming the repository and Houston are not supported on RockyLinux 9.3, and I would have to downgrade back to Rocky 8 to use them. Is this the case? Its no big deal if it is. I have no problem switching to 8 after i practice zfs thoufh terminal for a bit.

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**Author:** ![DigitalGarden](https://forum.45homelab.com/user_avatar/forum.45homelab.com/digitalgarden/32/1785_2.png) [@DigitalGarden](https://forum.45homelab.com/u/DigitalGarden)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2024, 8:33am UTC](https://forum.45homelab.com/t/new-to-home-labbing-having-trouble-with-45d-repo-and-tools/1307/2 "2024-03-23T08:33:36Z")

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Yes and no. Rocky 8 is what is supported. Rocky 9 _should_ work with the right configuration, but is unsupported as of right now. See;

[https://forum.45homelab.com/t/houston-ui-installation-failure-rocky-9-and-ubuntu-22-04/287](https://forum.45homelab.com/t/houston-ui-installation-failure-rocky-9-and-ubuntu-22-04/287)

There are a few posts in the forums about installing the 45Drives software environment from scratch. You might want to find them if you have not. I have not done this, but it sounded like there were some errors in the documentation, although they may have since been corrected.

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**Author:** ![ProtoBill](https://forum.45homelab.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/e495f1/32.png) [@ProtoBill](https://forum.45homelab.com/u/ProtoBill)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2024, 11:56am UTC](https://forum.45homelab.com/t/new-to-home-labbing-having-trouble-with-45d-repo-and-tools/1307/3 "2024-03-23T11:56:38Z")

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That pretty much answered my question. I should have searched first before making this post. Hehe. Thanks DigitalGarden.

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**Author:** ![DigitalGarden](https://forum.45homelab.com/user_avatar/forum.45homelab.com/digitalgarden/32/1785_2.png) [@DigitalGarden](https://forum.45homelab.com/u/DigitalGarden)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2024, 1:29pm UTC](https://forum.45homelab.com/t/new-to-home-labbing-having-trouble-with-45d-repo-and-tools/1307/4 "2024-03-23T13:29:55Z")

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No worries. Threads don’t always use the key words you’d expect and search fu is needed anyway. That one won’t come up with “Rocky Linux 9”, for example.