is it possible to go straight from OMV 3 to OMV5 or 6

Hi ,

I Have an OMV 3 Nas setup with 2 drives and wanted to install version 5 or 6

can i just install to a new USB drive with version 5 or 6 , and then point OMV to the hard drives which were setup from my omv 3 install, or will i have to delete the data and start from scratch ?

I am reading the New guide at present , it is very well written , maybe the answer is in there !

thanks

wow, thank you , first time user of this forum, that was fast

I spent 2 days waiting on openmediavault irc no-one seems to be visting the irc rooms.

Is there a guide to do a fresh install without the data disk ?

or do you mean that i need to remove the old USB stick with OMV 3.0 and also unplug the 2 HDDs and then install the OMV 6 via the usb drive into ram and onto the USB stick 1st then shutdown and connect the SATA hdds back , restart and point OMV6 to the HDDs ?

also before I can do this maybe I need to resolve the following:

I have put this in the storage/general forum but no replies:

OMV 3.2.0-4 failed to start with the following error

loading please wait...

/dev/md0 has been started with 2 drives

[ 2.920254] EXT4-fs (sdc1): write access unavailable, cannot proceed

mount : mounting /dev/disk/by-uuid/ {hexadecimal number}

failed: invalid argument

mount: mounting /dev on /root/dev failed: No such file or directory

target filesystem doesnt have requested /sbin/init.

No init found. Try passing init = bootarg.

Busybox v1.20.2 (Debian 1: 1.20.0-7) built in shell (ash)

Enter "help" for a list of built in commands

/bin/sh: cant access tty: job control turned off

(initrmfs)

I can type commands here so have access to shell

Here is a picture of the screen showing error and version of OMV + on one of the boot ups i had a strage R! in the LH corner of the screen?

https://imgur.com/a/cu7snUu

Any direction would be helpful , thank you

Ok , its getting interesting, I am still reading the new user guide , has some good tips for pitfalls to watch out for ...

I am stuck , tried different USB sticks and a USB hardrive to install from as well and I keep getting a partition issue and recommendation to restart, this is mentioned in the guide as well .

However, when I restart it jusrt hangs with a cursor flashing and nothing seems to happen , tried it with OMV 5 and OMV 6 , same result.

from the Guide :"

If installing to a USB drive, at this point, it is possible to an error may pop-up regarding partitioning the drive, and recommend a reboot. Follow the recommendation. After the reboot, the partition operation should succeed the 2nd time around."

any suggestions , thanks

PS have disconnected my 2 drives on SATA as instructed

In a Galaxy Far , Far , Away ,

my First nightmare cannot write to partition

figured out after trying alternative hardware (ie laptop) that the installer was hanging after a reboot on the laptop as well. Guessing hardware on destop was ok then... ( thanks to raulfg3 for the advice)

so put installer on the usb flash drive

and plugged in usb 3 external HDD to install OMV to FROM the USB flash drive

ie. source = usb flash drive

destination for OMV = USB External HDD

Ok , the install is now working, partitioning the USB HDD on the laptop.

So now repeating ther process on the original desktop which had the 2x drives connected up with the OMV USB 3.0 originally.

Next , hurdle the installer picks up on the 2 NICs but unable to configure them , no problem , configure them manually via the available options which can only be reached by pressing cancel while the installer is configuring ipv6 etc.

If left to configure then the screen remains blue until intervene and press ctrl +C and then choose the correct NIC card and as the installer tries to configure i select cancel repeatadly until the option to configure network card manually is displayed , select this and setup an ip address in the available ip range of the LAN.

Next ,hurdle unable to access the mirror sites for the packet manager error !

Ok try some solutions, no go , find a ref: https://community.spiceworks.c…om-all-linux-mirror-sites

here the issue was the bios date were wrong , I am thinking no way can that be my issue , and guess what , that was my issue as well , changed time same problem .... ooooooinng and ummmmming , then check BIOS again and find time is ok but had not noticed that the Date is incorrect .... WT?....

Throw a tantrum .... get a new CMOS battery just in case ... forget to keep the power lead connected and summararily loose all bios settings ... going well ...ehmmmm. Calming myself with some meditation.

Enter all bios settings again , have to remember 15 years back to the future.

And start the install again.... going well so far and then bang hits me again ... Bad archive mirror error .... WT ?..

Escape or go back to installer sequence menu and choose , go to shell and ping 192.x.x.1 to make sure the NIC is connected to router and then ping 8.8.8.8 (google to see if NIC can reach the outside world) pinging all ok ... so back to the drawing board !

ok had enough of trying multiple mirrors in deffernet countries , so bypass the mirror and go straight to instlalling grub and lets try the suggestion online of installing and then using the command dpkg-reconfigure apt

enp0s18: 192.168.0.47 is the address shown on OMV start page but cannot connect to GUI.

cannot connect or ping this address although OMV is saying it is on this address

omv-firstaid : reset the web gui configuration

then gives me address 192.168.0.103:80

wow can now connect , phew

omv-upgrade ( to upgrade from CLI) in order to mitigate any issues that may have arisen by not connecting to the mirror ( if i understand this correctly)

OK , finally connect the original HDDs back to the SATA ports on Mobo

Reboot, and wack , bang , wallap , cannot boot as the Bios settings need to be corrected to boot from the USB HDD(OMV) , ok try again.

Yes finally into the GUI , yipee

and can see the HDD x2, now to setup the shares etc as advised by raulfg3 .

when you say same username and passwords , are you talking about the shared files or login username to the GUI ?

I have a list of the shared folders and usernames and passwords of the users from my OMV3 installation written down

Do i now go into users and replicate the users with their passwords here ?

and do i do into Storage>shared folders and manually add these back in ?

or are you suggesting i change the username and password on the GUI and it will automatically find the users and shared folder info from the original 2xHDDs , somehow ?

thanks

Hi I have now managed to get the installation working with updates , with OMV extras , thank you again , its been a rollercoaster ride ! but fun, so far.

I have setup the users and the shared folders as far as I can remember from my OMV3 installation but I cannot see the data on my original mirrored disks. (thanks to Tecnodad videos and the New Guide)

I setup the shared folder eg: ace and then under privelages rea/write permission selected

then ACL selected read/write permissions for ace

when selecting ace as the user , selected the mirrored array in File system and then relative path as ace/

then onto services >smb/cifs >shares /settings and enabledthe shared folder , selected Guests Allowed , then save and apply

I can now see the shared folder ace on the windows 10 network but do not see the data which was originally on the DATA HDDs .

Have I missed out a step or incorrectly set this up ?