Headless install on Terramaster F4-220

    Hi All,


    I have a Terramaster F4-220 I'd like to install OMV on. The NAS has no video , so I can't do a 'regular' install. I need to install to a thumb drive, and then put the thumb drive in the NAS.

    What I THOUGHT would work would be to install it to a thumbdrive in a VM. I have a Windows machine with VMWARE Player. I have the option to mount the thumb drive. I ran the install for OMV, selected to install to the 128GB Flash Drive. It went through the install. If I recall, there's a second stage I need to do once it reboots - some basic configuration? It tells me to remove my installation media and reboot.

    But basically if I then try to boot the VM from that flash drive, it won't boot. I also tried putting the flash drive in the NAS, it won't boot either (that I can tell - it's not pingable).

    Is there some other method or something I'm missing to be able to do a headless installation for a NAS device that has no video card?


    Thanks :)

  • macom

    Approved the thread.

    Confirmed the install 'works' as I installed it to the VM inside Windows, and it reboots right into OMV to perform the initial setup, but the USB drive just won't boot :(

    Any suggestions?

    Thanks.

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    Quote from Krisbee

    Then its back to dsub method unless you can find some other tips of on the Terramaster forum.

    Was afraid of that.. but not so sure it's terramaster specific. I can't even boot the install USB on a VM, so I'm pretty sure it won't boot on a NAS. Any idea why the usb thumb drive I'm writing to isn't booting? I did also try a grub repair using a linux repair O/S and it still won't boot but i'm guessing (??) it's because even if the drive is bootable, there's no operating system or otherwise boot info?

    Thanks :)

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