- #Install freenas hp mediasmart server ex495 how to#
- #Install freenas hp mediasmart server ex495 install#
- #Install freenas hp mediasmart server ex495 license#
- #Install freenas hp mediasmart server ex495 iso#
I have about 3 TB available and would like to use FreeNAS to store photographs and to use as a backup device for Time Machine. I am willing to pay someone who knows FreeNAS VERY well and is willing to walk me through it via emails / chat.
#Install freenas hp mediasmart server ex495 how to#
Has anyone loaded FreeNAS on to HP EX485 MediaSmart Home Server? If so could you give me any insight as to how to go about doing it? So I did a search on Google to see if I could re-purpose the server and low and behold I was directed to FreeNAS. I looked on eBay to see what I could get for my HP Server and saw I could realistically only get about $150.00. I have been looking at the Drobo solution but it is a bit out of my price range. However now the server is not even plugged in and I have an urgent need for disk space. I have a HP EX485 MediaSmart Home Server which I have never really got any use out of (although contains a lot of media files I would not want to loose), also I have converted to Mac a few years ago and until a few versions of Os ago I was using the server primarily for Time Machine backups. It's not like restoring the WHS2003 from the HP DVD.I am not very hardware savvy so please excuse any stupid questions. You have to be a real hack to get this all set up.
#Install freenas hp mediasmart server ex495 install#
I also did this using Citrix XenServer and ran both ubuntu server and WHS2003. In our previous story, Hacking The HP EX470/475 MediaSmart Server, we provided step-by-step instructions on how to upgrade the server and its BIOS to install a dual-core AMD processor to replace.
#Install freenas hp mediasmart server ex495 license#
You already have a license for WHS2003 so you can throw that on there as well. The E5700 supports virtualization if you want to run KVM as well on ubuntu. I just upgraded my ex495 to an Intel E5700 with 4G of memory. Although I don't know the memory or processing requirements. I believe you can do this in combination with raid. You can add additional physical drives to the volume group over time. You can increase or decrease the sizes of the logical volumes. Then you can carve up the volume group into logical volumes any way you want. LVM allows you to group multiple physical drives into a volume group. You can use an USB keyboard/mouse if you install the supplied jumper. It may be possible without the cable, but it is very handy to have for whatever you choose. I might think about it though: it looks like FreeNAS recommends 6 GB as a minimum for ZFS and 8 GB preferred, while the Ubuntu and other Linux documentation seem to indicate that 4 GB might be enough (which is good as that's actually possible to do in the ex490). I strongly suspect that with Ubuntu, I'd need to get the VGA/keyboard cable in order to get the installation done. no ZFS possible)?Īlso, slootj, were you able to get Time Machine running? If you're on Lion, you'll probably need to upgrade FreeNAS as it has more stringent requirements for what volumes it will allow to be used:
#Install freenas hp mediasmart server ex495 iso#
My problem before was that I had assumed that the FreeNAS ISO was a working system and not an installer.Ĭan someone correct me if I'm wrong about this, but the ex490 only has one RAM slot, right? Therefore the maximum amount of RAM is 4 GB (i.e. If I can get this working, I think I'll buy a blank drive and pull the WHS system drive permanently (or at least until I give up entirely on the hardware and want to sell it). It definitely doesn't seem as easy as the initial WHS setup was, but I already have the hardware and it's cheaper than buying an empty NAS enclosure. Now to set this thing up properly so I have a working NAS again. FreeNAS booted this time and I was able to access the web GUI from a remote machine!
I powered off, ejected the system drive, and then powered on again.Ĩ. If I left all four HD's in their trays, the ex490 booted WHS, which isn't, of course, what I want it to do.ħ. I moved the stick to the bottom rear USB port on the ex490.Ħ. I turned on the network interface using the CLI and saved the settings.ĥ. I then took that USB stick and plugged it into a relatively recent windows laptop and booted off the USB.Ĥ. Then, using my Mac and Parallels, I booted off the ISO and had it install to a small USB stick.ģ.
I downloaded the FreeNAS installer ISO.Ģ. I have had success booting FreeNAS 8.0.3 on my ex490!ġ. I already posted much of this in another thread, but I figure that someone else might find this here and find it useful: