This is my first attempt at building my own home server and I'm a complete novice at Linux, so please forgive me if I don't quite know the exact lingo to be using.
Anyway, I started off trying to install OMV 3.0.94 on my Asrock J3455-ITX motherboard. Followed the guides to create a bootable USB with UNetbootin and a copy of the OMV 3.0.94 ISO. Process took forever and ended up with an error stating "Failed to create file system".
Did some Googling and thought I might have better luck with the kernel on OMV 4.0 so I repeated the process creating a bootable USB with UNetbootin once again. This time the process was much smoother but still ended up with the same "Failed to create file system" error.
I tried using Win32 Disk Imager instead of Unetbootin, didn't work. I updated to the latest BIOS then tried fiddling with UEFI/CSM switching everything to Legacy only, that didn't work either. I tried running diskpart and "cleaning" my USB sticks, then attempted to use different ports, but it all ended in the same outcome.
Finally, I came across something about installing OMV over Debian Stretch and decided to give that a try. Created bootable USB with the debian-9.3.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso this time using Rufus in GPT. But strangely enough when I ran it, the debian install ALSO failed while partitioning disks because it could not mount a file system.
I'm at a loss for what to do. I had not expected this process to be quite so difficult. Really hope someone here can help.