[SATLUG] OT / OOS (Off Topic / Off OS): FreeNAS anyone?

[Daniel Goller]

Why not run a distro off a usb stick on a Linksys NSLU2, easier and faster
though would be to just boot off of the hdd that holds your storage in an
external enclosure. performance for such a low power device is really nice.
using a armeb uclibc install allows you to install any headless server
software you might require for it, i ran a lightweight httpd, sshd, nfsd and
more on mine, the distro i chose was gentoo, more since gentoo's cross
compilation offerings are still outstanding, secondly because i found the
precompiled offerings too limiting, check out http://www.nslu2-linux.org for
more.

The hawking tech 54g usb stick also works for that. which allows you to just
hide it away in a closet,  and it won't take up much space there.

Hope this helps any,

Daniel

On 3/1/07, George, Jason (San Antonio) <Jason.George at valero.com> wrote:
>
> Fellow LUGgers-
>
> I'm considering implementing a FreeNAS (http://www.freenas.org/) server in
> my casa.  My plan calls for using an older box, a Compact Flash card (w/ CF
> to IDE adapter) as the FreeNAS home drive and whatever disks I can scrounge
> up as storage.
>
> Anyone here have any advice, tips or success / horror stories they're
> willing to share?  Thanks! -Jason
>
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