> As to other ways to get this running, I'm thinking of > buying a pcie x1 graphics card for about $25, or > maybe a more common usb->ethernet adaptor that EON > has a driver for.
I paid up and got the VGA+Serial cable. It was pretty hefty, but I didn't have many other options other than building one myself (which required a special crimper) or buying a PCIex card (which I couldn't find locally). > H340 with ubuntu: Are you still using zfs, then? I > ran zfs-fuse with nfs for several months, but I got > nfs stale file handles every day. This is the main > reason I want to run solaris at all-- for the best > zfs and nfs support. I never tried any other network > file systems, though. Maybe that would have solved my > problem. At the moment, I am using ReiserFS in RAID 5 mode using mdadm -- 4 x 500GB drives. I find it works rock solid and easy to setup in any Linux distribution with pretty much a couple of commands. I played with zfs-fuse, but I can't really get myself to trust it with my valuable data. Though the snapshot option would be awesome. Maybe BTRFS will reach stable in a few months or middle of next year -- pure speculation on my part, of course. > Simple non-gui install: Did you mean for Ubuntu? I > went to http://releases.ubuntu.com/karmic/ and got > ubuntu-9.10-server-amd64.iso (via bittorrent). That > one can go right on a usb stick or CD, and then it > boots to a fairly quick installer. At the end of the > install, they ask if you want mail server, print > server, news server, etc. For some tests, I installed > from a usb stick to another 512MB usb stick, which > worked fine. I meant non-GUI for OpenSolaris. As for Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic, it, well, installed fine on a USB stick but gave me a plethora of perl compilation errors while trying to use apt-get. I spent a couple of hours trying to fix it by reinstalling perl, perl-base, etc. But no real luck. So my NAS is currently down till I reinstall Ubuntu and see if the problem happens again. This time, I may use a newer 16GB stick... Another option is Arch Linux. Which is quite minimal, but doesn't have as many packages as Ubuntu. Keep me posted on your progress and if you need any assistance. Take care, farhany -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
