Hi all,

 

Recently purchased a used Supermicro 2U server on eBay for a great price, and to my surprise, the seller threw in an 8GB Innodisk SATA DOM (D150QV-L) which I figure would be perfect for booting unRAID as it simply fits right in the first SATA slot on the mobo.

 

However, now I'm coming to the problem of installing unRAID onto it. Typically I would just plug the DOM into one of the sata slots on my desktop, reboot, and format/make it bootable as in the getting started guide, however my desktop motherboard lacks the special 5V power plug that the DOM needs to, well, get powered.

 

My next thought was to boot into a live linux distro, download the unRAID zip, and install it to the DOM that way, but it seems there are no instructions on how to install unRAID to a disk from within Linux.

 

Can anybody (preferably somebody who has successfully booted unRAID from a DOM) give me some advice or let me know how they did it?

 

Thanks!

unRAID is expected to be booted from the USB stick (that also acts as the license key), and after that runs from RAM.  Even if you do succeed in getting it to boot from the DOM you will still need the USB stick to be present all the while unRAID is running, so since unRAID is running from RAM all you gain is a few seconds at boot time.  I would not have thought this was worth the effort?

Ah, thanks for the info. In that case, since I need a flash drive anyway, might as well boot from it.