Install on ARM headless?

JPT · May 10th 2016

Hi,

OMV is available for the Rasperry Pi, so I hope there are chances to make it run on my Netgear ReadyNAS RN104.
It uses a Marvell ARMADA 370, which is an ARMv7, the Raspberry is a ARMv7-A, which I hope is the same?

I currently run plain Debian armhf on it but well... it's no NAS OS.
I've got a self built kernel 4.0.5 (from kernel.org) running, see http://natisbad.org/NAS3/index.html

What I need is an initrd containing the installer so I can load it into RAM using U-Boot.
Since the device is head-less I need access to the installer over serial line (or network).

Any hints where to start?
Which device and which version should I download?
Or should Itry to build an installer image from source myself?

thank you very much

Jan

ryecoaaron · May 10th 2016

You don't need an installer in the initrd. As long as you are running Wheezy, you can just add the OMV repo and apt-get install.

Code

echo "deb http://packages.openmediavault.org/public stoneburner main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openmediavault.list
apt-get update
apt-get install openmediavault-keyring postfix
apt-get update
apt-get install openmediavault
omv-initsystem

I do recommend installing omv-extras and the flashmemory plugin quickly though.

JPT · May 10th 2016

wow. Would be great. But it's jessie
So I simply install debian wheezy and add the OMV repo?

LarsN · May 10th 2016

Quote from JPT

wow. Would be great. But it's jessie <img src="http://forums.openmediavault.org/wcf/images/smilies/sad.png" alt=":(" />
So I simply install debian wheezy and add the OMV repo?

That's how it works yes

ryecoaaron · May 10th 2016

Or wait for OMV 3.x which does use Jessie but isn't ready yet.

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