bombai Posted April 16, 2014 Share #1 Posted April 16, 2014 Hi guys.. I like to try with this wonderul OS but I have some doubts.. I have 4 bays on my N54L microserver running Nas4Free, and i have 2 HDD in raid0 and 2 in raid1, and the OS running from internal usb port. Firs of all, i want to know if its possible the same way, install OS on usb to can use all the HDD capacity. And then, i like to know if I can import the 2 raids that i have created without data loss. Many thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CtrlAltDel Posted April 16, 2014 Share #2 Posted April 16, 2014 Hi guys.. I like to try with this wonderul OS but I have some doubts.. I have 4 bays on my N54L microserver running Nas4Free, and i have 2 HDD in raid0 and 2 in raid1, and the OS running from internal usb port. Firs of all, i want to know if its possible the same way, install OS on usb to can use all the HDD capacity. With Xpenology (Synology) the OS/DSM is stored on a partition of each drive installed. You need a usb drive as a boot loader to allow the system to pass the hardware check etc. After the system has booted the data on the USB drive is redundant until the next time you boot the machine up. You can simply eject it from the DSM to help prevent damaging it. And then, i like to know if I can import the 2 raids that i have created without data loss. Many thanks. I have no first hand knowledge of your migration path but I would think it's highly unlikely that you will be able to import the volumes you have created under Nas4free. The drives will need to be partitioned and formatted in order to function as Xopenology drives. It would probably be best to get two drives to run some test to see if you want to make the leap over to Xpenology (you probably will imho). Another option would be to use an ESXi build that will allow you to run multiple OS's one of which would be Xpenology and another could be Nas4Free. You would need some new drives to configure that without losing data. That way you could still access your Nas4Free volumes on your microserver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bombai Posted April 16, 2014 Author Share #3 Posted April 16, 2014 With Xpenology (Synology) the OS/DSM is stored on a partition of each drive installed. You need a usb drive as a boot loader to allow the system to pass the hardware check etc. After the system has booted the data on the USB drive is redundant until the next time you boot the machine up. You can simply eject it from the DSM to help prevent damaging it. Ok, I dont know DSM needs a partition of each drive, this is at installation time, because if you add some drive more after, it uses the same partition when added? I have no first hand knowledge of your migration path but I would think it's highly unlikely that you will be able to import the volumes you have created under Nas4free. The drives will need to be partitioned and formatted in order to function as Xopenology drives. It would probably be best to get two drives to run some test to see if you want to make the leap over to Xpenology (you probably will imho). Another option would be to use an ESXi build that will allow you to run multiple OS's one of which would be Xpenology and another could be Nas4Free. You would need some new drives to configure that without losing data. That way you could still access your Nas4Free volumes on your microserver. Ok, I think DSM can work with a raid0 or raid1 created on linux, but you tells me that all drives needs to be formatted. I will use the raid1 (only have to backup 100GB of 1TB on the another raid) and i will use this two drives to do some tests. I like this idea to can choose OS as grub/burg in linux to can work with both. I will let you know the results. Many thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bombai Posted April 17, 2014 Author Share #4 Posted April 17, 2014 I have installed successfully XPEnology. I format my old raid1 as a new raid1 in XPE. But someone knows how can import without loss data from my old raid0? I cant format it and I havent more drives to backup the data first. Any idea? Many thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schnapps Posted April 17, 2014 Share #5 Posted April 17, 2014 bombai, maybe you can bootstrap your new xpeno box and install afterwards the zfsonlinux package. Nas4Free and FreeNas are both using ZFS as being BSD systems. After installing zfsonlinux, try to attach the ZFS volume to xpeno Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bombai Posted April 18, 2014 Author Share #6 Posted April 18, 2014 Hi Schnapps, In freeBSD I can install by pkg_add -r PackageName, in based ubuntu apt-get, but in xpe with which order can I install by shell? Many thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schnapps Posted April 18, 2014 Share #7 Posted April 18, 2014 Search for threads or other blogs on how to bootstrap your syno box. After bootstrapping, you can use ipkg to install Linux software. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bombai Posted April 18, 2014 Author Share #8 Posted April 18, 2014 Ok, I have been searching about my own bootstrap, but I am not sure what is my .sh to can install it properly. NasDSM> cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 16 model : 6 model name : AMD Turion(tm) II Neo N54L Dual-Core Processor stepping : 3 microcode : 0x10000c8 cpu MHz : 2196.297 cache size : 1024 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 0 cpu cores : 2 apicid : 0 initial apicid : 0 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 5 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc extd_apicid pni monitor cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt nodeid_msr npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save bogomips : 4392.59 TLB size : 1024 4K pages clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: ts ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps hwpstate And I cant find here http://forum.synology.com/wiki/index.ph ... stall_ipkg Any help to can identificate my script? Many thanks again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schnapps Posted April 18, 2014 Share #9 Posted April 18, 2014 You are using as 99% of this forum, an x86 processor meaning that you will need to use: For Intel Atom CPU's: D410, D425, D510, D525 and D2700 Processors http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optwa ... 7_i686.xsh which uses http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optwa ... /unstable/ as its feed. Here's a how to bootstrap a syno box (but for an ARM proc) http://www.ingmarverheij.com/how-to-install-ipkg-on-synology-nas-ds212/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bombai Posted April 18, 2014 Author Share #10 Posted April 18, 2014 Perfect Schnapps! You're the boss! Finally I can import my zfs raid and all its fine! Many thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schnapps Posted April 18, 2014 Share #11 Posted April 18, 2014 Glad I could be helpful Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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