Setting up a NAS?

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Agashka

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Hi, i have a spare 160gb HD that is IDE. It has been in my machine only to hold my recorded/downloaded videos. I recently found a small machine; it's an Neoware Eon2000E. This thing got 1 ide port, have a 300mhz geode cpu, 256mb ram, and bests of all: silent, and eat 15watts.
I guess i could use this as a NAS (witch could download torrents?) but last time i installed windows on that, i could not remote it because it was too slow. I know there is alternatives, but i don't know them.
 
any *nix will do, if you want nice lightweight nas then try freenas, if you want something that grab torrents and stuff there are many guides on howto build lightweight torrent client using linux. Personally i used gentoo for my torrent box, but my setup is too bulky for your hardware ( I'm running X, vnc and gui torrent client)
 
freenas seems really nice, any way to get torrents downloading on this? i readed it was possible, but cant find any informations

"FreeNAS doesn't 'support' it out of the box, but remember, it's FreeBSD 6.0, albeit a little slim on tools since it's not meant for a lot of command line fun. Still, drop down, do some pkg_add -r and you can have it do torrents no problem. From there you can ssh from work, kick off your torrent and let it spin. Again, writing a front end would just be a matter of cloning one of the current admin screens and modifying it; pretty simple even if you don't know php"
this looks like what i need, but im no linux/unix user, so id sorta need a guide to do this.
 
Freenas is a lean version of FreeBSD 6 running only the services necessary to do it's job as NAS; however there is nothing stopping you from adding torrent pkg for bsd.
here is a little guide http://www.freenaskb.info/kb/?View=entry&EntryID=226 no personal expierance with it so no idea if it works or how good it is. I love azureus client so i run my stuff on gentoo.
 
oka, so i figured i would install freenas, but since my eon pc doesnt have a cdrom, i figured i could install from another pc, witch i did. then i put the HD in the eone, and it says:

cant' load 'kernel'

when i try to put the command ls, it says:

open '/' failed: no such file or directory


But! it's supposed to work, i tested it in 2 others different pcs and it does work. Whats wrong with this one?
 
most likely bios settings, make sure it's trying to boot from right drive and set the hard drive mode to lba
 
Make sure the drive is installed in the same relative position (e.g, primary master or secondary slave) that it was on the other machine. It's IDE, right?
 
right, i only have one ide port.

edit: im not able to find any LBA settings in the bios.
 
I found this page, put i gotta enter stuff like heads, sectors, and others things. I found the lba at the end of these, and if i put it to LBA, and come back to bios, it's setted to automatic again.
thing is, the hard drive seems to work, because it starts the bootloader, just cant boot the image file :/
 
the bootloader and the data reside in different areas of the hdd and are accessed differently, it is possible to be able to access bootloader (the thing that tries to load the kernel) but not the rest of the drive. You should be able to just change a single setting from auto to lba. Can you take a decent quality picture of that bios page? every bios is bit different so it would help
 
Agashka said:
oka, so i figured i would install freenas, but since my eon pc doesnt have a cdrom, i figured i could install from another pc, witch i did. then i put the HD in the eone, and it says:

cant' load 'kernel'

when i try to put the command ls, it says:

open '/' failed: no such file or directory


But! it's supposed to work, i tested it in 2 others different pcs and it does work. Whats wrong with this one?
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Since the IDE cable has two plugs, couldn't you get an IDE CD drive to install freenas? I have never tried, but it seems like a bad idea to install on a different computer and switch it over (different hardware and such)
 
yes, i tried to install yesturday night it gave me an error about the haard drive; will attempt again tonite and copy there error here
 
Agashka said:
I gladly would when i will receive my new camera; but for now, all i can do is recreate it.
note: setting from Auto to User, requires me to replace the zeros by something.
http://img163.imageshack.us/my.php?image=biosve4.png
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OK that bios is pretty limited, usually you can just change the mode to lba and leave the rest alone. Those numbers ( cylinders, heads, sectors) are no longer used because CHS is limited to ~8.4GB, you can prob try setting it to anything other then zero, switch mode to lba and give it a try. Once freenas loads it doesn't use bios information to access hdds, it has its own way of accessing drives.
 
yeah , i guess, but since it can boot from hard drive, could it just get the kernel from a flash drive? because adding 3.5" hard drive to this machine areally is a hudge job(really small machine) I wouldn't like to have a cdrom with that!
 
it could be done but it would require custom building freenas from scratch, why not just install and boot from the usb? or does the machine not support booting from usb?

you can also boot over network assuming your network card supports that, it not too complex but does require some setting up
http://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=4120265
 
Hmmm... would putting a smaller, 1-2gb HD, or getting a IDE CF adapter, and putting the OS on a smaller hard drive would work? i got some 128mb CF`s at home and i know i can get a CF adapter on dealextreme for like 2 bucks. No, my machine doesn`t support booting from USB.
 
Hmmm... would putting a smaller, 1-2gb HD, or getting a IDE CF adapter, and putting the OS on a smaller hard drive would work? i got some 128mb CF`s at home and i know i can get a CF adapter on dealextreme for like 2 bucks. No, my machine doesn`t support booting from USB.
 
small hard drive might work, the cf is a mixed bag, some ppl get it to work without issues, some can't get it to work at all. It depends on you hardware configuration, i tried using cf in my setup but it wouldn't work at all, I don't know if it was the adapter or something else but i gave up and put freenas on hdd
 
Just a couple of suggestions about the bios settings.

I always set the PNP OS installed to NO so that the Bios takes care of setting up the interrupts and what not. Also, if you are not using the parallel and serial ports, disable them to free up more resources.

The bios page for the hard drives looks really weird. It seems like it is not seeing either of the IDE devices. Does it change when you only have one of them plugged in?

Don
 
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