Install OMV via PXE or NetBoot.me

scott.heitshusen · 16. Januar 2013

I am trying to install OMV on an older machine with a BIOS that neither supports USB booting or CD booting and the floppy drive is on the fritz, too. [It won't even work if I try to boot from CD or USB via GRUB2.]

The computer WILL/CAN boot via PXE and I have been succesful in getting it to boot into http://www.netboot.me/ , which is how I was able to get my current Linux on the machine. [That installation isn't fulfilling what I want and it seems OMV will.]

I have read that OMV can be a server for other computers on the network to boot to via PXE, but I haven't seen whether OMV can itself be installed via PXE and/or NetBoot.me.

Any thoughts or ideas on how to accomplish this?

Thanks in advance.

Scott

ryecoaaron · 16. Januar 2013

Not sure about the OMV installer but you can install Debian via PXE. Then, you would just need to:

Code

1 - nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openmediavault.list
    add line [i]deb http://packages.openmediavault.org/public fedaykin main[/i]
2 - apt-get update
3 - apt-get install openmediavault-keyring postfix xmlstarlet
4 - apt-get install openmediavault

scott.heitshusen · 16. Januar 2013

I'll try that.

Thank you!!

tekkb · 16. Januar 2013

Before you do what Ryeco said make sure xmlstarlet is installed. If not, install before you do his instructions.

ryecoaaron · 17. Januar 2013

It did install automagically but I add it just to be safe

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