Norco ITX-S8 nas case 5 - The build (Software continued)

October 19, 2016

After not having any luck with the installation and not finding much about this on the OMV forum, I did a little search about it and found these two pages were I noticed the person actually using two usb sticks, one to boot and one to install the OS on. Now this seems to make a bit more sense so I decided to try this out since my single usb drive didn't work.
https://boratechstuff.wordpress.com/2012/01/31/how-to-install-openmediavault-on-a-usb-stick/
https://thekentishman.wordpress.com/guides-2/open-media-vault/

Here is the new sandisk 16gb usb 3 I picked up and decided to test just this one to see if it would be any different than my old usb 2 version memorex.

I went through that install and got the same result. It just would not work. At this point I just want to make sure I am doing the same process with the new usb stick to rule this out. Sure enough, I get the same result.

Here I decide to use both usb sticks, one to boot and one to install the OMV 3 beta OS on.

 I get the same result. 

One thing I forgot to mention is that all of the above was done using unetbootin and still was a no go.

 I decided to change from netbootin to rufus 2.11 to make my boot disk instead. I have a feeling netbooting isn't working correctly.

 Sure enough I get a little further with rufus. I actually get the openmediavault screen, but unfortunately this still didn't work. But at least I now know netbootin has a problem making the boot disk on the usb drives.

 Here's what the rufus boot up screen looks like. I of course decide to try the next OS which is FreeNas to test the usb boot up and installation with two usb sticks. Again, one usb sticks becomes the booting drive and the other will be where the OS gets installed.

 Both flash drives show up and I choose the larger one to make the installation.

 Here's the same thing and I say yes to it.

 This part pauses for a while, I'm not sure if it's working or it's stuck. I decide to go to the kitchen and get something to eat.

 

I came back and the installation is successful. So just wait and let that previous part get done even though you can't see anything actually happening.

 I shutdown and re-reboot.

 I'm just using the back usb ports to make my life easier for this process since it's a bit hard to get to the internal usb port.

And finally here's my FreeNas console! Things are looking great. I may end up using this one if I can't get omv to install which is fine since I used it before and it work fine for what I was using it.

Here's what it looks like once you log into it from the browser. It's just using a dhcp assigned ip so I haven't set this up in any way yet.

I'm not sure which one to use here.

The raid options are now a bit different or should I say unclear as to which is raid 5 for example. I read on their site which one was which but it would be nice to see it on here as well. But I'm sure this can be sorted out later.

 

Once I closed those windows here's the main screen. So I guess the main thing to try if you can't get your OS install is the boot disk making software and then using two drives to make the install. One to boot up from and the second to install the OS into.  I wasn't sure if that matter since I hadn't bother to make any usb boot up disks. I got two other 32gb usb 3 sticks that I will test with omv and see if I have any luck with another boot disk software. 

Keep in mind that there are a couple of other ways to go about getting an OS to work with the norco itx case, but since I have this available, I want to use it. The case won't let me use a regular hd at the moment either so this is just something I wanted to try out to keep it simple and still use all the drive bays for storage.

 

October 20, 2016
I got a bit more curious about the software I was using so I decided to try a third one called linux live usb creator. I also purchased two identical 32 gb flash drives to test out. I figure I get something different to test this a bit more. This is what this program looks like. I just followed the instructions for it.

Enabling launching in windows just takes a bit longer since it downloads virtualbox so I just unchecked this one the second time.

Unfortunately OMV 3.0.36 amd 64 beta just would not work. I then used OMV 2.1 amd 64 which is the stable version and it finally went through the install without a problem. However once I tried to boot off the newly installed OMV, it just won't. So it looks like there's something funky going on with OMV isos and the usb boot disks since I have now tried three different usb boot disk programs to see if I can install it but I'm just not having any luck with this. I have also now tried four different usb flash drives as well. Needless to say, I just can't seem to get around this no matter what I do. You can see that the hardware works since I already installed FreeNas on it and it ran without a problem. So it looks like Openmediavault still may need some looking into, but I really can't say why this is. I'll keep trying to see if I can find a way to install it, but until then, this is what I have managed to do.

Norco ITX-S8 nas case 1 - The build

Norco ITX-S8 nas case 2 - The build

Norco ITX-S8 nas case 3 - The build (Software)
Norco ITX-S8 nas case 4 - The build (Software)
Norco ITX-S8 nas case 6 - The build (Fan replacements)
Norco ITX-S8 nas case 7 - The build (Fans continued) 
Norco ITX-S8 nas case 8 - The build  (2.5 Hard drive update)
Norco ITX-S8 nas case 9 - The build (2.5 hard drive update continues) 
Norco ITX-S8 nas case 10 - The end (OS and hard drives) 

Norco ITX-S8 nas case 11 - Upgrading the memory in 2022