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. I bought an HP EX485 MediaSmart Server years ago.