The domain name is requested in the next screen, so the hostname here is the first part of the fully qualified domain name. The installer starts to load some additional packages from installation media.Įnter the hostname of your server. In my case, I'll select 'German' as layout and press. The location will be used to define the timezone in one of the next steps and to preselect the keyboard layout. Select the language for the installation process.Īnd your location. Select the 'Install' option and press enter or wait until the installation starts automatically. When the System booted successfully you will see the following screen of the OpenMediaVault installer. It might be necessary to select the correct boot media device in the BIOS.

Insert the boot Media that you prepared for the installation into the PC or Server were OpenMediaVault shall be installed and start or reboot the system. When you downloaded OpenMediaVault onto your Windows Desktop, then you can use e.g. Please be careful, the dd command can cause severe damage if you select a wrong drive as target.Ģ.2) Create a bootable USB Stick on Windows Replace /dev/sdX with the device name of the USB drive. The following command can be used to write the ISO file on the USB Stick on Linuxsudo dd if=openmediavault_2.1_amd64.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=4096 To install the software on real hardware, you need a boot media like a CD / DVD or a bootable USB stick.īurn the downloaded ISO file on a CD or DVD or load it on a USB stick.Ģ.1) Create a bootable USB Stick on Linux The ISO image can be used to install OpenMediaVault into a virtual machine like VMWare or Virtualbox directly. The direct download link for the current 2.1 version is: I will choose the version for 64Bit processors (amd64). The software exists in flavors for 32- and 64Bit Intel/AMD processors and for some other platforms like Raspberry PI, Odroid and Cubox i. The first step is to download the OpenMediaVailt ISO file from Sourceforge. OpenMediaVault requires a separate disk or partition for the OS install and a separate disk or partition for the data.

2 Harddisks (or one hard disk with 2 partitions).

This tutorial describes the installation and configuration of OpenMediaVault. It provides an easy to use web-based interface, Multilanguage support, Volume Management, Monitoring and a plugin system to extend it with LDAP, Bittorrent, and iSCSI capabilities. OpenMediaVault is a Debian based special purpose Linux Distribution to build a Network Attached Storage (NAS) System.

5.4) Create a file system as data storage volume.

2.2) Create a bootable USB Stick on Windows.2.1) Create a bootable USB Stick on Linux.

Install open media vault on usb stick