

If you have important data on your USB thumb drive, move it somewhere safe. Now, make sure the right USB thumb drive is selected. Now, select the OpenMediaVault ISO file that you just downloaded and click on Open. Once you see the following window, click on No.Ī file picker should be opened. Once the page loads, click on Rufus Portable as marked in the screenshot below. Rufus can be freely downloaded from the official website of Rufus at On Windows, you can use Rufus to make a USB bootable thumb drive. You may use the command sudo lsblk to find out what it is for you. $ sudo dd if=~ /Downloads /openmediavault_4.1.3-amd64.iso of= /dev /sdb bs=1M On Linux, you can easily make a bootable USB thumb drive of OpenMediaVault with the following command: In this section, I am going to show you how to make a bootable USB thumb drive of OpenMediaVault from the ISO image on Windows and Linux. Now, you have to make either a bootable USB thumb drive of OpenMediaVault from the ISO file or burn the ISO file in a CD/DVD in order to install OpenMediaVault on your computer. Making a Bootable USB Thumb Drive of OpenMediaVault: The OpenMediaVault ISO file should start downloading as you can see in the screenshot below. Once the page loads, click on the link as marked in the screenshot below. You can download the ISO file of OpenMediaVault for free from the official website of OpenMediaVault at I recommend you install OpenMediaVault in a 4 GB USB thumb drive and use your hard drive or SSD as data drive. You need at least 4 GB of disk space in order to install OpenMediaVault, 1GB of RAM (memory) and another hard drive or SSD for storing your files. So, it supports a wide range of hardware. System Requirements:Īs OpenMediaVault is based on Debian, you can install it where you can install Debian. In this article, I am going to show you how to download OpenMediaVault ISO file, make a bootable USB thumb drive of OpenMediaVault and install it on your computer. It’s one of the best free solution to building your own NAS server. You can install OpenMediaVault in old or inexpensive hardware without any problems. OpenMediaVault is based on Debian and it’s very lightweight. OpenMediaVault (OMV) is an open source NAS (Network Attached Storage) operating system.
