Install on USB on another machine

Hi!

Got my hands on a acer revocenter recently. Want to get rid of WHS and put openmediavault instaed.
i'm kinda lazy about connecting monitor and keyboard and Im on my laptop mostly, so I got an idea: Can I install OMV onto USB stick via Vmware, then put it in server and boot from there? Will it work? i think yes, but want anyone to confirm this. If this gonna work?

Regards,
Victor

Nope, it it not. It boots from internal drive with WHS. Tried to do install as advised and it stopped @94% for half an hour. Now it says I need to reinstall it with recover and blah blah.. I know what I need to reinstall on this box
There's a button and as I get it makes it boot from USB stick for recovery. Or when you boot without any drives in it boots from USB. I'm thinking to hotplug the drives(says it's ok), erase any boot info there and use it for data.