You've got nerves of steel. It can, and will, hallucinate sudo rm -fr / as a step necessary for configuration at some point (it's even easy to justify by, say, missing the mention of this having to be in a chroot or a container). Russian roulette with your data and setup on the line. Not sure I'm willing to try...
- install this nVidia driver and make it work with pytorch
- get this ethernet connection to $IP working
- schedule a daily cron job to make an incremental backup of this harddrive, don't store duplicate files