I had also observed many people trying to setup Slimserver on a NAS box, and wondered about trying this. This idea certainly has some charm (small, compact, quiet), but I found that creating a full-fledged PC was both less expensive and far more powerful. It's amazing how much PC you can build these days after scrounging around for spare parts.
Started out with * Old (3.5 years) VIA motherboard sitting on my shelf. * Old 4X CD ROM drive and 8GB HD from my box of spare parts. Added * 256MB PC100 Memory, free leftover from a friend's box of spare parts. * 200GB Seagate harddrive, $29 after rebates from a CompUSA "midnight madness" sale. * Case + 250Watt PS, $19 from CompUSA after rebates. * 750MHz Pentium III processor, free from another friend's box of spare parts. * Ethernet card, free from another friend's box of spare parts. $48 total At first, I tried installing Free NAS with the intention of just using this machine as a file server. Free NAS worked like a charm, but since I couldn't run the slimserver on it left me wanting more. So never having tried a full Linux distribution before, I tried installing Mandriva. For some reason, Mandriva didn't like my machine, so after doing some research I settled on SUSE 10. SUSE is not directly supported by Slimserver, but ran smoothly on my machine. Getting slimserver to work required jumping through a few hoops, but all the information to do it was here in the forums. As an aside I have to admit that I absolutely hate setting things up in Linux. Everything seems three times harder than it needs to be (especially if your working with a distribution that isn't directly supported by the software you're installing). But once you have it working, it's fast and purrs like a cat. You also have full-fledged server with which you can do a whole host of other things. All-in-all it's a hoot for 48 bucks. -- Gildahl ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gildahl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25892 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
