Pi-hole - does it replace the entire OS?

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I have just installed pi-hole on an older raspberry pi and it is working really well.

Now I have led a sheltered life as a mainly Windows user and as such I think I am missing something really basic and obvious (and google is not helping me here)

Before I installed pi-hole, I had some version of Raspbian installed on my Pi. Afterwards, when I open a terminal window and type
uname-a

I get

Linux pi-hole 3.6.11+(and some other stuff)

So how does this work:
  • Does this mean that pi-hole is now my new operating system?
  • If so, why does googling "pi-hole" include a list of supported operating systems, when it completely replaces it anyway?
  • Can I also install Pi-VPN on the device? Because the first screen now tells me this operating system may not be supported.
  • Will Pi-VPN then also install it's own operating system?

Thanks in advance and apologies for any face-palm injuries.
 
Pi-hole is a service you can install on top of a Raspbian install, but it sounds like you had the "Full-Image" which would then overrwite your Raspbian install, so in short yes.

How did you run the install, did you flash the SD card, or did you run the commands to install Pi-hole?
 
R4ziel said:
Pi-hole is a service you can install on top of a Raspbian install, but it sounds like you had the "Full-Image" which would then overrwite your Raspbian install, so in short yes.

How did you run the install, did you flash the SD card, or did you run the commands to install Pi-hole?
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Thanks, R4ziel, as far as I can remember I just went to a terminal window and typed
curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bash
as per the installation instructions on the website. Did this do a full image install?
 
It's running Linux, with a customised kernel provided by pihole.
You can run pihole on anything but they also provide images built on linux, which is what you've installed.
 
Format
install Debian
then install pi-hole
Code: 
wget -O basic-install.sh https://install.pi-hole.net
sudo bash basic-install.sh
 
That should be the way to install it and not overwrite your whole OS, so you did it correctly.

What are you looking to do on the default Raspbian install that you now can't access?

PS : Whoohooo my 2000th post, almost to the 10k mark!
 
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R4ziel said:
That should be the way to install it and not overwrite your whole OS, so you did it correctly.

What are you looking to do on the default Raspbian install that you now can't access?
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It all seems fine, except that I also want to install Pi-VPN and was wondering if this was still possible given how I installed Pi-hole and the warning message I receive when I run the Pi-VPN install program.
 
You can run it alongside Pi-hole as far as I know, what is the warning you get?
 
What warning do you get from pi-vpn?
 
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