OMV 1.12 on Iomega Home Media Network Cloud Edition (HMNCE)

Greetings!

I'm thinking about give another try on OMV; I reallly enjoyed it.

However, it seems I cannot run OMV 1.9 on it, since I was running OMV on Debian Wheezy and several kernel resources were not available.

It seems the better version for my NAS is 1.12. I have some questions,though:

a) How do I install 1.12? Last time I did it, I installed 0.4x and ran 'apt-get update', ended up with 1.9.
b) Can I install it straight from ISO, without Debian Wheezy? I think it should be cleaner, am I right?
c) I'll need OwnCloud, DLNA and a Torrent client. Would love to make sure these are compatible with this version.
d) Where can I find OMV 1.12 files? The Sourceforge download page jumps from 0.5x to 1.9.
Thanks in advance.

Cheers!

Hello, KM0201!

Thanks for your reply.

I was using 1.9 before and had a lot of issues. But again, I installed a modded kernel-based version of Wheezy; never tried with original OMV ISO.

Maybe this topic can explain better than me the need of a modded kernel.

Thanks!

Sorry, not meant to make you read all the threads, just the 1st one. I should've been more clear.

Anyway, as far as I know, standard kernel won't work properly with ARM processors. This NAS seems to require some specific steps, including boot sector strings, to install anything (as described here).

Then, the only way I could install it was installing this kernel-modded version of Wheezy, then installing OMV 0.4, then upgrading it. But it required A LOT of work and fixes, including some help of yours (davidh2k helped me a lot) but still had a lot of crashes and other issues --couldn't even copy large files to NAS without having it freezing up.

As David said, it was all related to the kernel issues...

Cheers!

EDIT: Here's a part of the tutorial for installing OMV on this NAS:

Zitat von Stefan Seidel

You will need

definitely: a USB memory stick of at least 512MB (1GB is better if you need to recover the original firmware)

definitely: have your device updated to the latest firmware

definitely: a network router with DHCP enabled (it usually is) and the device connected to it (otherwise you won't be able to access the device)

highly recommended: access to the serial console of the device, although not strictly necessary, is helpful because otherwise you'll have no clue what's going on if it doesn't work (more information, but basically what you need is a 3.3V UART-USB adapter)

ideally: a copy of the first 32MB of the hard drive in your device (for last-resort recovery)

good to have: reasonable knowledge of Linux

Procedure

Download this ZIP file, extract the contents of the first folder in it onto the USB stick (so that the USB stick contains 4 files and one subfolder at its top level)

Power down the device

Plug the stick into one of the USB ports of the device

Power up the device and press and hold the "reset" button (small hole above the USB/Network ports, use needle) - if you have the device cover open for the serial console, you can just press the tiny white button by hand

wait until both white LEDs on the front start to blink - you can now release the reset button

wait (the installer will format the system portion of the HDD and copy the base system onto it)

the device will power down - you can safely pull the USB stick from the device

power up the device (e.g. by pressing the power button on top of the back side) - the LEDs might stay dark for a while, don't worry about that

the device will now boot the new system and install the OpenMediaVault packages

once you see the red LED lighting up, you can go and do something else.

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So... any clues here?

Still not sure how can I "stop" the update on 1.12, it goes straight to 1.9.

Thanks in advance!

Hello? Anyone? Can I get a little help here, please?