Once QEMU boots, you'll see the boot loader screen:Įither hit or wait a bit and it will start up the installer. You should be able to figure out the device name by plugging the device in and then typing mount in a shell and looking for something like this: /dev/sdc1 on /media/mark/A0FE3089FE3059AC type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other,blksize=4096,uhelper=udisks2) Where /dev/sdc is the device name for my USB flash drive. Instead of writing the ISO out to a CD or USB drive, I used QEMU to boot the ISO image and install to my USB drive: sudo qemu-system-x86_64 -boot d -cdrom ~/Downloads/FreeNAS-9.10.1.iso -m 2048 -hda /dev/sdc You'll need an 8GB USB flash drive and the FreeNAS ISO image.

I'm using a Linux desktop machine to to set things up. I'm not sure if this will work with other similar models, so tread carefully if you don't have the same hardware I do. Lately, I've been hearing a lot about FreeNAS and I thought maybe I could resurrect this hardware once again. I kept it running for a year or so, but eventually I needed one of the disks out of it for something else and it sat idle.

I've always been somewhat of a Linux enthusiast, so I figured installing Linux on it would be a good way to get back into Linux again. Eventually I left Microsoft and Microsoft stopped supporting Home Server. When the next version of Windows Home Server was released, I upgraded. It worked well for storing photos, home videos, etc. I was working at Microsoft at the time and it ran Windows Home Server, so I thought I should support the home team and try it out. Neither time did 'Help' help or 'Finish' reboot.I bought an HP EX485 MediaSmart Server years ago. Here's the error messages from the Recovery Disc:

Here's the link to the blinking icon codes, there isn't one for just blinking aqua though. Does anyone know what might be going wrong and how to fix it without losing our data? I've been trying to find something on HP's site about the hard drive icons not lighting up but there doesn't seem to be any info on it anywhere. I tried running the restore DVD, powering up the server, hitting the paperclip button when it flashed red, but it failed to make it through all the steps. I couldn't access the console or RDC in to it, I've tried resetting multiple times and it still didn't get past the blinking icon. I tried to play a couple movies (MP4) from my Xbox360 and all failed to play, when I went to check the server, the little icon was red, I reset the server and thought nothing of it until today when I went to access the server and I noticed that the server's icon was blinking blue and none of the hard drive lights were on. I have an HP MediaSmart EX485 Windows Home Server with 2 extra drives and it has worked great up until yesterday.

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