Re: Installing debian on N2100
Andrew Haswell wrote: - Original Message - From: "John Winters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Andrew Haswell wrote: [snip] can you give me some advice as to what partitions to create, can i get away with just root and swap or is it worth considering more granularity. I will install Debian on 1 HDD to start and add the other in after, mirror the debian partitions, then create data partitions. How big are your hard discs? I've got 2x 500GB Seagate Drives in it at the moment, i doubt i will ever do anything particularly taxing with it on the linux side, will probably use it for a LAMP type install, samba, then usual media software. I'd probably go for some variation on my usual set-up there. A 10G partition on each disc, RAIDed with RAID1 for /. Then perhaps a 1G partition on each, again RAID1, for swap. Then put the whole of the rest of each disc into a single large partition, again RAID1, but use the resulting device as a physical volume for LVM and allocate LVs from that as needed. HTH John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing debian on N2100
On Dec 23, 2007, at 7:06 AM, Andrew Haswell wrote: can you give me some advice as to what partitions to create, can i get away with just root and swap or is it worth considering more granularity. I will install Debian on 1 HDD to start and add the other in after, mirror the debian partitions, then create data partitions. Then he added: I've got 2x 500GB Seagate Drives in it at the moment, i doubt i will ever do anything particularly taxing with it on the linux side, will probably use it for a LAMP type install, samba, then usual media software. Given that you don't plan to "ever do anything particularly taxing with it on the linux side", root and swap will do fine. The bulk of the disk(s) will be going into your data partitions. As discussed in another thread, if you think you'll ever need to use the "linux side" for anything interesting, you should definitely split off a "/home" and then think seriously about splitting off "/ var" and "/tmp". Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing debian on N2100
I've got 2x 500GB Seagate Drives in it at the moment, i doubt i will ever do anything particularly taxing with it on the linux side, will probably use it for a LAMP type install, samba, then usual media software. - Original Message - From: "John Winters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2007 2:15 PM Subject: Re: Installing debian on N2100 Andrew Haswell wrote: Ok im going to get on and do this this weekend, probably the hardest part will be fitting all my data on other drives temporarily! If i remember correctly boot is written to the flash at the end of the installation, The kernel and initrd are written to flash at the end of the installation. can you give me some advice as to what partitions to create, can i get away with just root and swap or is it worth considering more granularity. I will install Debian on 1 HDD to start and add the other in after, mirror the debian partitions, then create data partitions. How big are your hard discs? John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing debian on N2100
Andrew Haswell wrote: Ok im going to get on and do this this weekend, probably the hardest part will be fitting all my data on other drives temporarily! If i remember correctly boot is written to the flash at the end of the installation, The kernel and initrd are written to flash at the end of the installation. can you give me some advice as to what partitions to create, can i get away with just root and swap or is it worth considering more granularity. I will install Debian on 1 HDD to start and add the other in after, mirror the debian partitions, then create data partitions. How big are your hard discs? John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NSLU2: Problems browsing samba shares on MacOS X Leopard and Nautilus
Well, it does the exact same thing. So I grabbed samba_3.0.24-6etch9_arm.deb and samba-common_3.0.24-6etch9_arm.deb from the Etch repo and dpkg -i them. It's working correctly so far so I guess I'm gonna stick with 3.0.24 till this is fixed. Best, Manolis On Dec 23, 2007 12:42 AM, Kevin Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Manolis Tzanidakis schrieb: > > I think I'm gonna re-build the samba packages with > > C*FLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=xscale -mtune=xscale" and let you know. > > Indeed I would be really glad to know if this is sufficient. NSLU2 is > not the device you would want to compile stuff too often on. :-) Thanks > in advance for sharing what you find out. > > Any success reports might also be good to Cc to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > cheers > > Kevin > -- > http://www.kevin-price.de/ > > -- Manolis Tzanidakis [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tzanidakis.gr/~manolis jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] icq: #102798230 Grab My GPG Public key from my homepage. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing debian on N2100
Ok im going to get on and do this this weekend, probably the hardest part will be fitting all my data on other drives temporarily! If i remember correctly boot is written to the flash at the end of the installation, can you give me some advice as to what partitions to create, can i get away with just root and swap or is it worth considering more granularity. I will install Debian on 1 HDD to start and add the other in after, mirror the debian partitions, then create data partitions. - Original Message - From: "John Winters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 6:00 PM Subject: Re: Installing debian on N2100 Andrew Haswell wrote: Hi, I've been waiting to see if the installer will get fixed so i can install Debian on my Thecus n2100. My skillset is wintel based not Linux which is to say that i am highly technical and i would like to use my n2100 to cross train. As the installer doesnt seem to be getting fixed, can anyone advise me whether i should attempt the work around or not? Ive got the latest firmware on the thecus and can ssh into the box. I would like to get debian on it and then use LVM to raid 1 a portion of the disk for data protection including the debian mount points. And from there learn Debian in more detail. I would like to do this as a project over christmas, im just worried about getting stranded. Advice greatfully received. I've just done it and the problems with the installer are much over-rated. If you hadn't been for-warned about them you'd barely notice them. Firstly - *don't* use the daily build from the armel project. I tried this and nearly scuppered myself. Use the official image from the Debian site and just follow the instructions. Half way through the "Install base system" phase you'll get a red screen and a complaint about being unable to install the kernel. Just choose "Go back", then "Continue" and you're at a menu showing all the stages. Choose "Install base system" again and when it whinges about some packages being part installed just tell it to go ahead anyway. About 10 minutes later it will offer you a list of kernels to choose from - choose the 2.6.18-5-iop32x one and proceed as per the instructions. The thing is barely broken at all. Go ahead and do it is my advice. HTH John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
