Epictek300

Camera type should be motioneye or faster network cam depending what settings you have it set to

Like everyone else is saying, just use a more normal distro. I'd suggest Xubuntu/Lubuntu on such old hardware, mint is pretty heavy.

Maybe try a derivative of Ubuntu such as Xubuntu or my personal favourite to recommend ubuntu budgie. How about installing ubuntu server and then installing a GUI on to it such as Gnome? Fedora is also great for a Gnome experience that just werks.

The best option would be PoE, You aren't going to get good battery life out of any battery unless you wanted to hook it up to a car battery but even then you would only get a few days

There is no need to, The system partitions are set to read-only so will not corrupt.

Attach a display, see if any errors appear. Maybe look at the log files? Is the Pi cool enough?

There are a lot of options: Linux Deploy: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.meefik.linuxdeploy&hl=en Termux has the best intergration with Android but you will need to install a third party repo https://xeffyr.github.io/termux-x-repository/ or install a distro such as ubuntu in a proot https://github.com/Neo-Oli/termux-ubuntu There is also GNU Root https://www.xda-developers.com/guide-installing-and-running-a-gnulinux-environment-on-any-android-device/ You probably want to use this alongside them: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=x.org.server

I'd recommend Void Linux if don't mind a bit of a challange (assuming you are a beginner). It is easier to install than Arch as it has a install script. Void also uses runit instead of SystemD making the Distro a lot more minimal and slightly faster. The ISO is only 324 MB compared to arch which is 571 MB.

In the Expert Settings section of the settings panel you will find a few log files, could you share them with hastebin, preferably after you get the error. Also maybe make an issue in the github repo. https://github.com/ccrisan/motioneyeos/wiki/Reporting-An-Issue Hmm this is very confusing, unless something has changed with motoneyeos since I last used it you shouldn't be seeing the file storage system of the camera, are you sure you are accessing the corret motioneye host? Also the connecting to the windows share sounds a bit unnecessary you should probably save locally to the VM and share that folder with the host.

Are you using the Pi as a hub? Have you tried portforwarding port 80? https://github.com/ccrisan/motioneyeos/blob/master/board/common/overlay/etc/motioneye.conf shows the default port as port 80

The Pi should be set as fast network cam and recording should be done on the hub itself.

If you go to the url of the Pi it will show you a live feed Search on Amazon "dummy cctv cameras"

Zsh has this built in.

The instructions for windows. Download PuTTy Run PuTTy In Host Name/Ip Address type the IP of the Pi you wish to connect to. Click Open A terminal should open asking for a username type "root" or "admin" For the password type the password you set in the web ui. If all goes well you should be greeted with a terminal in which you can type commands. For Linux/OS X open a Terminal and type. ssh root@[Pi Address] Once you connected you can type the command fdisk -l you should then see the Pi's SD card and in theory, your hard drive if you can't see it'll you want to type dmesg | less and look for any output relating to a USB drive not have enough power. (I wish the formatting on this forum was better )

Is the drive recieving enough power? Can you use an ssh client such as putty to connect to the Pi and run fdisk -l If you need a written guide on how to do this I can do that.