Hi,

 

I'm actually running a server with unraid 4.5 and I think it's time to catch up the new versions so I would like to install the last v5. But I'va got some problems :

[*]I'm supposed to firstly upgrade to 4.7 but I can't find the file ! I contacted [email protected] for previous versions but no answers so far. Is the file somewhere else I can find ?

[*]I've got new hardware for my server (intel DQ35JOE). What's the best way to install it ? First make the upgrade to v5 and then put the drives with the new hardware or the other way (put the hardware together with my drives on unraid 4.5 and then make the upgrade)?

[*]I wanted to test my hardware with other drives just to make sure unraid runs smoothly on it but I can't make my usb bootable. Everytime I've got the message "usb name is UNRAID and it should be UNRAID" how may I fix that ? I renamed the key under windows 7, windows 8 and even Xubuntu and It never worked

 

Thank you all for your help,

I suggest you back up your usb before you do anything. 4.7 it is about 56mb in size.

 

4.7 was there for a long time & download what tom puts up & make up my mind when I want to upgrade.

I used 4.7 for most of my early days on unraid. then went to the 5betas for bigger hdd capacity.

been on 5.05 for a while now looking at uping to 5.06 & considering being my 3rd server on a V6.

 

do you have a spare key licence $30 to an extra one before it goes (if still available ask tom).

Ok so first backup the usb key.

 

Is this file ok ? https://code.google.com/p/unraid-greenleaf-repository/downloads/detail?name=unRAID%20Server%204.7%20AiO.zip&can=4&q=

Tom sent me the file so I'm good on this side (thanx Tom)

 

But I still have problems to make my usb bootable. Everytime I've got the "the name is UNRAID and should be UNRAID, aborting"... Now I'm looking for a software to make my USB bootable. I found this software (http://rufus.akeo.ie/), would it be ok ?

Tom sent me the file so I'm good on this side (thanx Tom)

 

But I still have problems to make my usb bootable. Everytime I've got the "the name is UNRAID and should be UNRAID, aborting"... Now I'm looking for a software to make my USB bootable. I found this software (http://rufus.akeo.ie/), would it be ok ?

 

Where are you in the world?  Certain national keyboard options (under 'Region and Language' settings in Control Panel)  have problems with writing the USB key with the 'actual' characters that the boot process checks for. 

Hi,

 

I'm in Belgium so my keyboard is a belgian azerty one and is set on "FR", should I change the region for "EN" and then rename the usb ?

 

EDIT : I tried that but it didn't work

I have attempted to locate the thread(s) that discussed and solved this issue a while back but I did not find anything.

 

Here is one thing to try:  Click on the Start button.  Click on "All Programs". Click on "System Tools".  Click on "Character Map". 

 

The utility Character Map should now be running.  Select "Arial" as the font.  Click on "U". Click on 'Select'.  You should see a "U" in the box.  Repeat for "N","R","A","I", and "D". 

 

You should now have "UNRAID" in the box.  Click on 'Copy'.  (This will copy it to the clipboard.) 

 

Now right click on your USB drive in Windows Explorer.  Select 'Properties'.  Now, Rename the USB drive by using a 'Ctrl-v' to paste it to the box.

 

Please realize that these instructions were prepared from the US English version of Win7 (I do apologize for that) and you will probably have to translate the names into French...

Thank you for your help. I tried by the character map but it didn't work

 

So I tried  (this software) with the zip of the V5 files and it worked but now I have 3 more files on my USB key that weren't in the zip file :

• SmartClean.ini
  
• Remove_LiLi.bat
  
• ldlinux.sys
  

 

Is this a problem ? Should I delete those ? Would they make a mess with Unraid ?

the content of Smartclean :

[Files]
bzimage=2725120
bzroot=33492472
license.txt=5246
make_bootable.bat=942
make_bootable_mac=1872
memtest=150024
readme.txt=7797
ldlinux.sys=32256
SmartClean.ini=211
Remove_LiLi.bat=0
[Folders]
config=353
syslinux=194906
=36611169
[General]
Total_Size=73222368
Installed_Linux=Linux normal (marche sur la plupart des linux)
Installed_Linux_Codename=default

 

The content of Remove_Lili:

@echo off
rem This batch file was created by Thibaut Lauziere for LinuxLive USB Creator
rem More infos available at www.linuxliveusb.com
cls
echo -----------------------------------------------------------------
echo ----------- Welcome to LinuxLive Uninstaller --------------------
echo -----------------------------------------------------------------
echo.
echo.
echo.
echo --------------------- WARNING! ---------------------------------
echo.
echo This batch file will permanently remove LinuxLive from your key
echo.
echo -----------------------------------------------------------------
echo.
echo.
set /P userchoice="Are you sure you want to remove Linux Live from your key (Y/N) ?"
if /i NOT "%userchoice%"=="y" goto:eof
cls
echo -----------------------------------------------------------------
echo -----------        Removal of LinuxLive      --------------------
echo -----------------------------------------------------------------
echo.
echo Removing file : bzimage
ATTRIB -H -S bzimage
DEL /F /Q bzimage
echo Removing file : bzroot
ATTRIB -H -S bzroot
DEL /F /Q bzroot
echo Removing folder : config
RMDIR /S /Q config
echo Removing file : license.txt
ATTRIB -H -S license.txt
DEL /F /Q license.txt
echo Removing file : make_bootable.bat
ATTRIB -H -S make_bootable.bat
DEL /F /Q make_bootable.bat
echo Removing file : make_bootable_mac
ATTRIB -H -S make_bootable_mac
DEL /F /Q make_bootable_mac
echo Removing file : memtest
ATTRIB -H -S memtest
DEL /F /Q memtest
echo Removing file : readme.txt
ATTRIB -H -S readme.txt
DEL /F /Q readme.txt
echo Removing folder : syslinux
RMDIR /S /Q syslinux
echo Removing folder : 
RMDIR /S /Q 
echo Removing file : ldlinux.sys
ATTRIB -H -S ldlinux.sys
DEL /F /Q ldlinux.sys
echo Removing file : SmartClean.ini
ATTRIB -H -S SmartClean.ini
DEL /F /Q SmartClean.ini
cls
echo -----------------------------------------------------------------
echo.
echo.
echo.
echo.
echo.
echo.
echo --------- LinuxLive USB has been removed from your key  ----------
echo.
echo.
echo.
echo.
echo.
echo.
echo -----------------------------------------------------------------
pause
Removing uninstaller : Remove_LiLi.bat
ATTRIB -H -S Remove_LiLi.bat
DEL /F /Q Remove_LiLi.bat
:End

 

if you can boot the new key, you can 'attempt' to identify it's device name by

 

ls -l /dev/disk/by-label/

 

in my case it is.

root@unRAIDb:/# ls -l /dev/disk/by-label/ 

total 0

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2014-11-18 11:04 UNRAID -> ../../sdb1

 

or you can do

fdisk -l | grep 'Disk /' 2>/dev/null

 

in my case, I look at the size to determine the key.

 

Disk /dev/sdb: 1990 MB, 1990197248 bytes

 

Once you know the device, 'and' you can boot up into unraid/linux.

 

There is the dosfstool.

You can attempt to label (re-lable) it that way by cutting and pasting.

 

root@unRAIDb:/# dosfslabel

usage: dosfslabel device [label]

 

So in my case it is

 

dosfslabel /dev/sdb1 UNRAID

 

You'll need to change the device path from /dev/sdb1 to whatever your device is.

Point is maybe the cut and paste will preserve the string enough to get you past this keyboard issue.

 

I know its a total kludge way to do it.  Just an idea that came to mind.

Ok, what I did is to manually write "syslinux -maf F:" in the command line and it worked. Two problems down but a new one appeared : is there any tutorial on how to upgrade from v4.5.6 to 4.7 ? The wiki page says only this :

Any release before 4.7

Upgrade your server to version 4.7 and verify your server boots properly into 4.7 and your configuration appears valid.

Now follow instructions for upgrading from 4.7 in next section.

Anyone   A tutorial to upgrade from 4.5.6 to 4.7 ? It would really be appreciated...