OpenMediaVault on HP t630 Thin Client

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#302579 3-Dec-2022 16:24

Greetings

Soon I will be getting a HP t630 and want to install OpenMediaVault on it.

I noticed on another forum that this was possible.

Has anyone any suggestions on "how to".

At this stage looking at installing Openmediavault as a bootable image on a USB 3 pen drive, plugging it into the internal USB 3 port of the t630 and taking it from there. Also if I can source the memory at a good cost upgrading the t630 to 8GB ram.

But would welcome any suggestions from anyone who has "done that, been there"

Thanks and Regards

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#3005316 3-Dec-2022 16:36

The T630 is basically a standard little PC that will boot anything including bog standard Windows. Quite a cool little low powered PC and it's Quad Core AMD CPU is no slouch either.

You really just treat the thing as if it's just any other PC, it has a UEFI, you can boot anything.

I have had it's Realtek NIC act a bit funky on Debian(which OpenMediaVault is based on) sending malformed packets (which required it's non free driver compiled into it's kernel to get it to stop doing that). I've got crucial memory in it right now and that boots just fine with that.

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#3005321 3-Dec-2022 17:41

Many thanks for that- I may ask for your advice if I encounter the same ethernet problems with OpenMediaVault

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#3005332 3-Dec-2022 19:33

Reanalyse:

Many thanks for that- I may ask for your advice if I encounter the same ethernet problems with OpenMediaVault

You should be able to edit your sources.list under /etc/apt/ to include non-free, then run a apt-update and just install r8168-dkms which will pull 8.048.03-3 which fixes it.

1 reboot later and you'll be fine.

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#3007462 8-Dec-2022 19:54

MaxineN:

Reanalyse:

Many thanks for that- I may ask for your advice if I encounter the same ethernet problems with OpenMediaVault

You should be able to edit your sources.list under /etc/apt/ to include non-free, then run a apt-update and just install r8168-dkms which will pull 8.048.03-3 which fixes it.

1 reboot later and you'll be fine.

Thanks for your help - all installed.

Really impressed with the unit and OMV 6, runs everything - even JellyFin inside a Docker container- very well.

Only issue is that the internal USB drive does not want to be shared or written to, I wonder if that USB connection is "boot only" (read only) of something funny.

Still have enough USB 3 external ports so will move the pen drive externally to see what happens .

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#3007463 8-Dec-2022 19:56

Yeah I'm not sure what's up with the internal USB because I couldn't even boot off of it. Had to use one of the external ports. Wasn't that worried as I had a M.2 SATA drive.

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