Press PGDN one (1) time to select 4P(IDE)+4S(IDE).
Press the DOWN arrow eight (8) times to select SIS Serial ATA Mode Press the DOWN arrow one (1) time to select SIS OnChip PCI Device Press the DOWN arrow three (3) times to reach Integrated Peripherals Repeat this process until you're fully comfortable with the process of blindly booting into the BIOS and safely saving and exiting. Press F10 and then ENTER to save and reboot. Advice on the Internet suggests to wait 5 seconds after this to ensure it's in the BIOS. Using a USB keyboard, after power on as soon as the health LED begins to blink blue and red hit DELETE and it'll become solid (either blue or red depending on what it was when you hit delete) and enter the BIOS. This is due to a BIOS setting that will need to be changed.
However, you'll note that only the bottom and third from the bottom drive bays are functional. The process was developed by people who hacked VGA output into their servers.Īfter a minute or two, I connected to the home server's IP address from a web browser, and the OpenMediaVault interface came up! Doing this a single time seems to apply it every time in the future, as my home server always boots from the USB drive now. After that, I carefully hit the down arrow on the keyboard exactly 7 times, which apparently selects the USB boot option, and then hit enter. There is no harm in over pressing F12, so you can keep pressing to be sure. Apparently, this will bring up the boot menu. Powering on the home server, I repeatedly tapped F12 for 10 seconds. I plugged a USB keyboard into the front USB port. I removed all existing hard drives and inserted the flash drive into the bottom most rear USB port.
Using the root password I set during the installation process, I logged in and deleted the existing network configuration with the following command: Once I had OpenMediaVault installed on my second flash drive, I booted it on my regular computer.
The ISO image is an installer drive, and it'll then install OpenMediaVault onto your second flash drive. The wiki installation instructions weren't clear on this, but you'll then need a second flash drive on which to install OpenMediaVault. My other computer was on Windows, so I then used to restore the image onto the flash drive. You'll also need a USB keyboard.ĭownload the ISO image of OpenMediaVault. To start off with, you need access to a normal computer from which to prepare the install media. I've pasted in my notes on the process below in case it helps anyone else making the transition. At least upon first impression, everything seems to be working other than the internal network adapter, so I've used a USB network adapter in lieu of that.
I have tried installing different Linux distros on it, but I didn't use it as much when it didn't have some form of Windows installed.I recently switched my HP EX470 Mediasmart home server from the end-of-lifed Windows Home Server to OpenMediaVault. So for me the HP ex470 still gives me a lot of nerdy fun (and good use) even after 12 years. They have a client that I have installed on the server, so that my DNS name is always updated if my IP address change at my ISP. I have set up my server with remote desktop which I can reach from outside my network, so I can always configure my firewall at home if I need to when I'm traveling. It's really convenient when you need large ISO files and other big files. I use the server as a file server, print server (for me and my kids), and I also run Dropbox on it, so I always have a local copy of my entire Dropbox in my house. I have been running Windows Server 2016 on it for a while, but today I upgraded to Windows Server 2019. I recently upgraded my HP ex470 server with a faster CPU (dual core) and 4 GB of RAM (3,4 GB usable) as well as a SSD drive for the OS.