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#HP MEDIASMART SERVER EX470 RAID WINDOWS 8#
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Key -> The windows product key you want to use.

amd64_Microsoft-Windows-Setup/UserData/ProductKey.

amd64_Microsoft-Windows-Setup/ImageInstall/OSImage/InstallTo.

amd64_Microsoft-Windows-Setup/ImageInstall/OSImage.

Label -> Windows (But you can call it whichever рџ‰ ).

amd64_Microsoft-Windows-Setup/DiskConfiguration/Disk/ModifyPartitions/ModifyPartition.

amd64_Microsoft-Windows-Setup/DiskConfiguration/Disk/CreatePartitions/CreatePartition.

WillWipeDisk -> true ( Note! This means we are going to wipe the first disk! Make sure nothing important is on it, and best off just have the one disk in the MSS when running this).

amd64_Microsoft-Windows-Setup/DiskConfiguration/Disk.

Fill out UILanguage (Again, I picked en-US, for my case).

amd64_Microsoft-Windows-International-Core/SetupUILanguage.

Fill out InputLocale, SystemLocale, UILanguage, UserLocale (I set them all to en-US).

amd64_Microsoft-Windows-International-Core.

Pass: WindowsPE (when you right click the components to add, as described in the document, select this as the pass).

IвЂ™m not sure about the newer MSS hardware, you may need to adjust some things to accommodate. For the ex47X you mostly want components to be prefixed with AMD64. So, add these components to the configuration passes (the way described in the document). We want the machine to boot into a fully usable state, complete with enabled Remote Desktop, A computer name, and an account to log onto.

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You can reinsert them after Windows 8 is installed.ДЇirst, we follow the first part of these directions to get the Windows System Image Manager set up to create our answer file, but there are a lot of settings from the latter part of the document that we do not want, because the purpose of that document is to get the machine to boot into audit mode, so you can mess around and test before putting the machine into OOBE (out of box experience?) mode.

Please make sure anything on that disk is backed up and its best to make sure no other disks are inserted into your server when doing any of the steps to follow. Note: What IвЂ™m going to describe below involves wiping the system disk in the Media Smart Server. Point number 2 is also surmountable by application of some wizardry in the Windows System Image Manager. Other Ex47x enthusiasts out there have figured out the correct sequence of key presses to get the unit to boot off usb. It does not have a VGA hookup, so Remote Desktop MUST be enabled from the get go, along with the associated user accounts to allow for login.You canвЂ™t see the bios screen to get it to boot off USB.There are a few challenges to doing this on the Ex470, though:

#HP MEDIASMART SERVER EX470 RAID INSTALL#

The solution? I decided to try and do a completely unattended install of Windows 8. People out there have built various VGA adapters that you can buy to hook it up to a display, but one of my goals for this experiment was not to spend any excess money on it (IвЂ™ve just spent some cash on computer upgrades, and need to give it a rest for a while). The problem, though, is that it is a completely headless machine.

#HP MEDIASMART SERVER EX470 RAID HOW TO#

There are plenty of guides for how to accomplish this out there.

#HP MEDIASMART SERVER EX470 RAID UPGRADE#

If you want to run Windows8 you will need to at least upgrade your memory to a sufficient amount for Windows 8 (1GB). The stock processor meets Win8вЂ™s minimum requirements but the stock RAM does not. Note: My Ex470 has the stock processor, but I have upgraded the RAM. Its also super cute hardware, so I wanted a reason to run it some more. Rather than buy some nice NAS form factor hardware to test things out, I thought maybe I would try to get Windows 8 to install on my aging Ex470.

HP MediaSmart Server (EX470) -this is Windows based so more likely to be able to install a printer driver, although even that is not guaranteed.Recently IвЂ™ve wanted to experiment with whether Windows 8 would make a good home server (since there appears to be no future for WHS now, unfortunately).

my 440 ) is supported but a review said they couldn't get the dymo printer (didn't specify which) to work) and another post said printing didn't work well (One source says a similar Dymo printer to mine (330 vs. I'm not completely sure if it'll support my Dymo printer.

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NetGear Ready NAS Duo - This seems to be Unix or Linux based but says you can plug Windows or Mac printers into it and has a printer server. I want to move that stuff to a NAS device. We currently have a shared folder on a Windows computer and a Dymo Printer (on USB port of that PC) Or the ability to attach an external USB HD to achieve the same thing with. We don't need RAID, although having a second drive that's removeable and swappable (needn't be hot swappable) that we back up the first to and rotate in another drive would be very good). I'm looking for a NAS device that we can also plug a Dymo USB label printer into.

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