OMV clean install fail

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    Hi all.

    Have been trying to re-install OMV, but for some reason there are still remnants of the old install (installed OMV to play around in, before having all the disks and other hardware.

    I’m Trying to make the best possible setup with OMV on a usb-stick And the nvme-disk for docker and other apps.


    But for some reason the installer keeps finding the old info:

    Instead of openmediavault as default name, it uses omv (which I have changed to to during the first install)

    OMV doesn’t use the supplied ip-adress: after boot it lists 192.168.115.15 (not my network), even though i input 192.168.1.10 as ip-adress.

    I’ve tried numerous times to clear the usb-drives with gparted, windows diskmanager and balena etcher for writing the image for install.

    The nvme-drive isn’t connected during install, only 32GB install drive and 64gb OS flashdrive.

    What am I doing wrong?



    Hardware:

    ASRock N100m

    16 gigs ram

    500gb Nvme

    64gb usb-drive

    32GB usb for the installer

  • chente

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    I'm sure it's not the USB drives you're installing OMV on. The installation process erases any existing data (I'm assuming you're installing from the OMV ISO). What could be affecting it is how your router assigns the IP address to the server; I would check that.

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    Sounds like something is still hanging around in metadata somewhere. I ran into almost the same thing last year messing with OMV on a spare box. Turned out I hadn’t wiped the partition table properly — gparted “delete” wasn’t enough. I had to fully recreate the partition table (new GPT) and even zero the first few MB of the drive. After that, the hostname/IP weirdness stopped.

    Also, that 192.168.115.x smells like a leftover static config or cached network config. I once forgot I had set a static IP in a previous install and it kept reappearing like a ghost 😅

    Maybe try wiping with dd or recreate the partition table explicitly before reinstalling.

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    It sounds like some configuration data is being retained, possibly from a previous install on the target USB drive. I would recommend fully wiping both USB drives using a tool that removes all partitions and recreates a fresh partition table (for example, deleting the partition table itself, not just formatting). Also double check that no other storage device is connected during install, including the NVMe. If the wrong IP persists, it may be pulling a cached network config from the router (DHCP lease), so try clearing DHCP leases or setting the network to DHCP first, then reconfigure a static IP after installation.

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