Thursday, May 19, 2011

unRAID USB boot drive creation using OS X

1. Download which ever version of unRAID you like from the Lime Tech download page

2. Download the version of UNetbootin for your operating system from here

3. Go to the folder that has the version of unRAID you downloaded from step one. If you downloaded version 4.7 the filename would be "unRAID Server 4.7 AiO.zip"




Make a copy of the downloaded unRAID file and change the name to "unRAID Server 4.7 AiO.iso" Note the ISO ending




4. If you are on a Mac machine launch Disk Utility (located in Applications/Utilities) and you should see your flash drive listed.  In the photo below mine is listed as a 1GB Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 Media





























5. Select the drive from the left pane (disregard the OPENELEC name listed below the Kingston DataTraveler part)


























6. Select the Erase tab from the right hand side and set the values to:

  • MS-DOS (FAT) as the format
  • UNRAID (all capitals) as the Name


























7. Press the Erase button

8. Once the process is finished you can close the Disk Utility window

9. Launch UNetbootin and enter your password to allow UNetbootin to run the appleScript it contains















10. You should then see the UNetbootin window

























11. Select the Diskimage and set the values:

  • ISO from the dropdown
  • the "unRAID Server 4.7 AiO.iso" as the image
  • Type: USB Drive
  • Drive: /dev/disk1s1  <- the listing here may be a little different.  I suggest doing this step with only ONE USB drive plugged in




13. Click OK
























14. If you get any messages about over writing any files that exist just say "Yes to all"

15. Once the process is complete you can close the UNetbootin application

16. We can now delete some files from the UNRAID flash drive.  If you want to clean the flash drive off a little and give yourself as much room on there as possible you can delete the:
  • make_bootable.bat
  • syslinux.exe
  • ubnfilel.txt
  • ubnpathl.txt
  • readme.txt <- leave if you want to
  • license.txt <- leave if you want to
17. Now you can safely eject the unRAID flash drive from your machine and use it to boot your unRAID server.





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