Build your own NAS with OpenMediaVault Installation Minimum Requirements i486 or amd64 platform 1 GiB RAM 2 GiB HDD/DOM/CF/USB Thumb Drive used as OpenMediaVault system drive. Flash Drives without static wear leveling are not recommended, without it they will have a very short lifetime! NOTE: The entire disk is used as system disk. The disk can not be used to store user data. 1 HDD for data storage Info If you are not able to boot the 0.4 installation media, try to disable the serial port in the BIOS settings. OpenMediaVault does not support a data partition on the device where the operation system is installed. Therefore, please note that the whole disk device is occupied by the operation system. During the setup the device is parted into a partition used by /root and a swap partition. All existing data on drive are deleted during installation! Note before installing: To install OpenMediaVault without problems please disconnect all harddisks except the one used for the OpenMediaVault operation system. After installing OpenMediaVault shutdown the system. Then reconnect the drives and restart OpenMediaVault to finish configuration. During the installation process, configure the networking (do not choose to configure the networking later). If the networking isn't configured at this time, you will not be able to access OpenMediaVault from your webbrowser. During the installation process the installer automatically checks for newer versions of the installed packages, so make sure the configured NIC has access to the internet to install the latest package versions. Installation media To install OpenMediaVault download the ISO image. You can burn the ISO to a CDROM or create a bootable USB stick. To install the ISO on an USB stick use the following command: Warning, the dd program has the potential to cause serious data loss if you choose the wrong device. Make sure you are certain before running the command. If you aren't, please start a thread in the forums. sudo dd if=xxx.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=4096 where xxx.iso is the name of the platform-specific ISO that you downloaded, and sdX is the device name of your USB drive. For creating the USB drive in Windows, use this program: http://www.chrysocome.net/dd
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Build your own NAS with OpenMediaVault
Installation
Minimum Requirements
i486 or amd64 platform
1 GiB RAM
2 GiB HDD/DOM/CF/USB Thumb Drive used as OpenMediaVault system drive. Flash Drives
without static wear leveling are not recommended, without it they will have a very short lifetime!
NOTE: The entire disk is used as system disk. The disk can not be used to store user data.
1 HDD for data storage
Info
If you are not able to boot the 0.4 installation media, try to disable the serial port in the BIOS
settings.
OpenMediaVault does not support a data partition on the device where the operation
system is installed. Therefore, please note that the whole disk device is occupied by the operation
system. During the setup the device is parted into a partition used by /root and a swap partition.
All existing data on drive are deleted during installation!
Note before installing: To install OpenMediaVault without problems please disconnect all
harddisks except the one used for the OpenMediaVault operation system. After installing
OpenMediaVault shutdown the system. Then reconnect the drives and restart OpenMediaVault to
finish configuration.
During the installation process, configure the networking (do not choose to configure the
networking later). If the networking isn't configured at this time, you will not be able to access
OpenMediaVault from your webbrowser.
During the installation process the installer automatically checks for newer versions of the
installed packages, so make sure the configured NIC has access to the internet to install the latest
package versions.
Installation media
To install OpenMediaVault download the ISO image. You can burn the ISO to a CDROM or create a
bootable USB stick.
To install the ISO on an USB stick use the following command:
Warning, the dd program has the potential to cause serious data loss if you choose the wrong
device. Make sure you are certain before running the command. If you aren't, please start a thread
in the forums.
sudo dd if=xxx.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=4096
where xxx.iso is the name of the platform-specific ISO that you downloaded, and sdX is the
device name of your USB drive.
For creating the USB drive in Windows, use this program: http://www.chrysocome.net/dd