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    This is my second failed upgrade. After confirming the installation of the upgrade, it proceeded but hung up during the process. I cannot get back in and when I reboot, it fails to give an IP address. The first time I ended up reinstalling all over again. It looks like I'll have to do the same again. Why does the installation of the upgrades fail?

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    Why does the installation of the upgrades fail?

    No one can tell you without output from the upgrade.

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    On reboot, it says I'm on 7.7.7.1 and still no ip address and none revealed by my router or Fing.

    No, I can't log in locally

    I'm willing to give it another try and re-install from scratch but I am not optimistic. If that fails, what is the best OMV alternative program?

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    Why can't you login locally? You need to give us more info. We don't know what kind of system you are using even.

    Quote from claudio8

    I'm willing to give it another try and re-install from scratch but I am not optimistic

    Keep the output from the update and don't reboot until you post it so we can tell you what is going on.

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    If that fails, what is the best OMV alternative program?

    Don't think you are going to get much advice on OMV alternatives here. And all of them (other than commercial NASes) will probably need the ability to login locally at some point.

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    I am getting ready to re-install OMV. Some preliminary question:

    1. When my attempted ill-fated updates led to crashing my system, I had selected all the updates and then confirmed. Would it be wise to attempt one update at a time to isolate any corrupted update or is that overly cautious?

    2. I am using a Geekom MiniAir with Win11 Pro and a twenty+ year old external IDE drive salvaged from an old Dell laptop on which I put the OMV program and a external SATA drive to keep the media. Is it possible that the IDE drive can't handle OMV. It seemed to be working fine when I had the system up and running previously.

    3. Once I get the system up and running again, should I clone the IDE drive OMV to a thumb drive for backup. I'm thinking that would make it easier to recover from catastrophe.

    Thanks for any help..

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    Quote from claudio8

    Would it be wise to attempt one update at a time to isolate any corrupted update or is that overly cautious?

    Nope. I install all updates using apt-get dist-upgrade all the time.


    Quote from claudio8

    Is it possible that the IDE drive can't handle OMV. It seemed to be working fine when I had the system up and running previously.

    It is 20 years old. For something important, I wouldn't trust a drive over 5-7 years old. If it is ide, I would not use it. It could be starting to fail.


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    hould I clone the IDE drive OMV to a thumb drive for backup. I'm thinking that would make it easier to recover from catastrophe.

    backups are always good.

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    yep

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    I replaced the ide drive for the omv program with a miniature sandisk 32 gb thumb drive about the size of a fingernail and the install and subsequent updates and installation of omv-extras went well. At least part of my problem was due to the ide drive not being able to handle the updates for some reason. Hopefully, one final question. I have installed the minidlna utility and am able to access it both on my windows 11 device and my roku. I cannot figure out how to get the media files on my windows machine into the video folder of minidlna on my omv machine. Copy and paste doesn't work. I feel like I'm missing something obvious. thanks.

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