lrossouw wrote:
> What about plain Ubuntu server (or Ubuntu desktop with the gui). Ubuntu
> seems to have pretty wide hardware support so I guess it is most likely
> to work on your old laptop.
>
> Don't know crashplan but Ubuntu is quite popular so if it has something
> for Linux it will most
you could install the Vortexbox system (it does wipe out what's on the
drive)
http://vortexbox.org/downloads
It will include LMS 7.8, squeezelite, etc. and will function as a NAS
for other files you want to store there and access from computers on
your local network.
*Location 1:* VortexBox 4
Take a look at SME - http://contribs.org - it will run SBS (or at least
it did when I last tried it) but have no knowledge of Crashplan.
Interesting: I've been running LMS on SME for a decade or more. But I've
built my own perl, as the installed 5.8.x is rather dated and IIRC
caused some probl
d6jg wrote:
>
> NB. Any new OS is going to reformat your disks !
Not strictly true. You could add a OS partition on a disk with spare
space and keep the disks as is. The OS can then access existing data
partitions (and the existing os partition). I guess they are likely to
be one of NTFS, FA
What about plain Ubuntu server (or Ubuntu desktop with the gui). Ubuntu
seems to have pretty wide hardware support so I guess it is most likely
to work on your old laptop.
Don't know crashplan but Ubuntu is quite popular so if it has something
for Linux it will most likely work on Ubuntu?
Lou
Take a look at SME - http://contribs.org - it will run SBS (or at least
it did when I last tried it) but have no knowledge of Crashplan.
NB. Any new OS is going to reformat your disks !
QNAP TS419P 4TB LMS7.7.2
*Living Room* - SB3 -> Onkyo TS606 connected Digitally - > Celestion
Ditton F20s -
Hi all,
I've been running a NAS / SBS on a Sheevaplug until recently when the SD
card died. I also have an older Core Solo x86 laptop with 2GB of RAM. I
was thinking of turning that into a NAS as it has a lot of advantages
over the Sheevaplug, not the least being the convenience of a built-in
keyb
