On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 13:02 -0800, eeyssjr wrote: > 146 days is somewhat a dream.
Not with the right OS :-) > Having said that in linux if a process > does fail its easy to restart that specific process - in windows this > often isn't the case, the whole box has to go down. Depends on the process. When I was writing deep C code to munge with the Windows file system, when I'd screw up, it would be bad. But even my Win2K box runs months at a time when I'm just using Word and Excel. I'm pretty sure that if I was writing the same kinds of code on Linux, I could foul it up completely as well. > I am (and have to an extent already) seriously considered the linux > route. I used SlimCD today and it is good no doubt. My gripes revolve > around my lack of use of linux which make it frustrating. There is a learning curve. Can't deny that. > My music is on a 300gig drive that is NTFS. My question is whether that > is compatable with linux - i read it will be read only for NTFS (?). NTFS support is read only, most of the time. And trying to make it writable is not something that folks new to Linux should even think about. Partition Magic (for Windows) can convert the partition to EXT3 for you. Non-destructively, and all that. > Another music drive is FAT32 - so linux will be OK with that straight > off? FAT32 is OK, but I'd only use it short term. Once you jump to linux, I'd have Partition Magic convert that partition as well. Then again, 300GB disk drives are about $70, and you can always use it for the next 500 CDs or so that you get. > And i want to mount the drives so that they're always there, no > remapping needed. Samba is the trick for that. It is fairly easy to setup, at least no worse than a Windows Domain controller, and once it is done, you can ignore it. I use Samba precisely so I can rip using EAC and transfer the files using mindless drag and drop. But you don't strictly need it, you could just use sftp or an equivalent. > ALso would need to get the wireless card working on it (the box will go > in the garage) - netgear rangemax are windows only drivers, so have to > get some porting software to sort out that, which is not ideal > situation and may not work. Run wired ethernet? I wouldn't not recommend having two wireless hops in your network if you can avoid it. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
