On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 10:27 AM, George Sedov <radist.mo...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm thinking about buying a QNAP 420, so can you please help me with
> some questions:
>
> 1) First of all, will it work?
> 2) I need transmission, amule, proftpd, samba, murmur, openvpn, squid
> and ntop. Does arm-debian have all these?
>
yes, refer to armel architecture on http://packages.debian.org

> 3) Can I install rootfs not on the SATA drives, but rather on the usb
> flash-stick, thus leaving all of the drives completely system-free?
> Maybe there are some other ways to keep the system off the disks?
>
i'm wondering how they do it with only 16MB of flash.... anyways, you could
always netboot it via tftp from u-boot

> 4) Will I manage all this without any experience with debian? :) I used
> gentoo for several years though.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Cheers,
>         George

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