jbraveman;376564 Wrote: > I built a box with new, but inexpensive equipment to run freenas with > the idea of running squeezecenter on that. Unfortunately I've found > out that slimnas and the current AMD versions of freenas don't work. > My new hardware is not supported by the older versions of freenas. My > other thought was to install ubuntu or something like it on this > machine instead. I don't have any linux experience however. How > difficult would it be for me to change over? > > The machine has an AMD64 X2 processor, 2 g of ram, and 3 1 TB SATA > drives. I'm running freenas off a usb thumb drive. > Things I'd like to do: > 1) run it headless > 2) run squeeze center > 3) bittorrent functions > 4) share the drives with my windows and mac machines > 5) the drives are formatted as UFS. Would I have to start over? > > Thanks.
You should be able to do this. How large is your thumb drive? If it is 8 GB, you should have no trouble loading a full Linux distro on there. It would probably even fit on a 4 GB drive if you don't install gnome, kde, etc. The important thing is that you have your data separate from your OS, so you can experiment with different OSs without worrying about damaging your data. I've seen UFS used with DVDs. I would imagine any Linux distro would support it. The headless aspect is more of an issue with your hardware than the OS. As long as the bios can be configured to allow the machine to boot in the absence of a keyboard, monitor, and mouse, you should be good to go. As you probably read above, I am running Open SuSE 11.0 booting from a USB thumb drive and am running headless. I had no trouble. Ubuntu should work too. If you try one and it gives you trouble, try the other. Deciding which distro to use is usally a matter of personal preference based on personal experience or on the experience of those you rely on for help (friends, etc.). Good luck! -- maggior Rich --------- Setup: 2 SB3s, 1 duet, 1 receiver. SuSE 11.0 Server running SqueezeCenter 7.2.1 (7.3 had dropouts for me) and SqueezeSlave. MusicIP has been turned off temporarily while I move to a lossless version of my library. http://www.last.fm/user/maggior ------------------------------------------------------------------------ maggior's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9080 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54842 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
