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.
HP MEDIASMART SERVER EX470 MEMORY UPGRADE INSTALL
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.Äownload 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 recently switched my HP EX470 Mediasmart home server from the end-of-lifed Windows Home Server to OpenMediaVault.