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Aheagel
Jan 30, 2026Aspirant
Netgear Readynas NVX (Buisness)
I just bought the device for 30 euros and have managed to install the latest official firmware (4.2.31) with Root SSH and fixed the TLS issue. Now I am wondering moving onto flashing something more m...
Aheagel
Feb 08, 2026Aspirant
I DID IT GUYS. Thanks so much for all the help from Sandshark and StephenB.
So I managed to install Debian 12 32bit instead / wanted to run OMV, on the internal HDD. So no need to have a permanent external USB for this at all and it boots automatically into the HDD aswell.
I started with a normal USB installation from usb via the recovery mode trick outlined, the annoying part was the part that i needed to modify the .cfg to work in text mode. I installed everything into the hdd as one partition. Then i rebooted into the usb again but this time into the debian rescue mode so i can access and mount the flash. Here I still dont understand that much, as i blindly trusted google Gemini, but i simply formated the whole internal flash and installed a newer version syslinux onto it. I also copied the initrd.img from /boot to the internal flash as the initrd.gz and aswell the vmlinux from /boot into the flash. I then modified the syslinux.cfg like this:
DEFAULT debian
PROMPT 1
TIMEOUT 50
SERIAL 0 9600
LABEL debian
KERNEL vmlinuz
APPEND initrd=initrd.gz root=UUID=f35db2a4-c8f7-48c9-ad98-adba65473e1b ro console=ttyS0,9600n8 earlyprint=serial,ttyS0,9600
and rebooted.
And it boots directly into debian YAY
But as the internal ethernetport didnt work i still needed to use an external wifi adapter to get this working. But luckily
https://github.com/jimmyw/linux-intel-e1000gbe-driver
This worked perfectly. Just needed to comment out the hard coded path line and it copiled with no issue on debian 12.13.
I still dont understand the whole process 100% but i hope this somehow helps anyone with similar issue as me
Aheagel
Feb 08, 2026Aspirant
No clue how raid will be working as i simply installed everything onto one hdd. It might be difficult in the future if i want to run raid on all 4 drives as im reserving a whole drive for debian. But that is a problem for another day
- StephenBFeb 08, 2026Guru - Experienced User
Aheagel wrote:
No clue how raid will be working as i simply installed everything onto one hdd. It might be difficult in the future if i want to run raid on all 4 drives as im reserving a whole drive for debian. But that is a problem for another day
Note you don't need to reserve the entire drive for debian, just one partition. You can create a second partition and put that in a RAID group.
But given the size of current hard drives, I think it'd be simpler to just use RAID-5 on the remaining disks.
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