September 7, 201312 yr I am sure something like this has been asked before but I have not been able to find it in the forums. If anyone can point me in the right direction, I really appreciate the help. I somehow stuffed up while trying to install unmenu and several other add-ons at once on my tower running 4.7 and completely lost the frontend. It ran fine but with no front end for a while until my motherboard failed. It has been sitting in cupboard for a year and I have just rebuilt the server with new CPU, motherboard and PCI-E sata cards. I ran a Ubuntu live disk and have verified that all the hard drives appear. I have the list of disk numbers and serial numbers from when the previous server was working. To get my server back up and running do I simply re-download 4.7 and run a fresh version and just assign the drives as they were before? Or are there some files I should keep on my flash from before? I will upgrade to 5.0 as soon as I can verify that it is working. Or should I go straight to 5.0? Thanks for your help.
September 7, 201312 yr Just go straight to v5.0 => Create the flash drive => Boot to it, then go into the GUI and assign your data drives (but no parity) => Start the array and confirm none of the drives show "unformatted" -- do NOT format anything that should have data on it or you'll lose the data => As long as everything looks okay; Stop the array; assign your parity drive; then Start it again and let it do the parity sync. When that finishes, do a parity check to confirm all is okay. Done ... Now you can install UnMenu and any other add-ons you use.
September 7, 201312 yr Since you apparently had some problems installing UnMenu before, a quick note on installing it ... All you have to do is create an "UnMenu" folder on the flash drive and copy "unmenu_install" to that folder; then log into the server (either via console or telnet), and run these commands: cd /boot/unmenu unmenu_install -i -d /boot/unmenu The current version of unmenu_install is here: http://code.google.com/p/unraid-unmenu/downloads/list
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