[slim] New How-To: Installing SlimServer on LinkStation

2005-03-23 Thread Rod Tucker
Marc, The version I first used was 6 (Perl Source Code (tar.gz) on the downloads site). I tried the nightly version in stead and it worked OK. Does your write-up need a warning on this possible problem? Also, the downloadedfiles continue to show up on the linkstation as tar.tar rather

[slim] New How-To: Installing SlimServer on LinkStation

2005-03-22 Thread Rod Tucker
Marc, I am really grateful that someone has put all this information down in one place. It gave me confidence, at last, to go ahead and try installing the slimserver on my linkstation. Everything seemed to be going just fine, but I ran into a problemright at the last step(under "testing

Re: [slim] New How-To: Installing SlimServer on LinkStation

2005-03-22 Thread Marc D . Field
In article news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], Rod Tucker rod-726cGAzaMRMGihw92uD59AC/[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The following modules failed to load: DBD::SQLite XML::Parser HTML::Parser Compr Hi, It looks like you have a build of SlimServer 6 that does not yet have the required ppc perl binaries. If you

[slim] New How-To: Installing SlimServer on LinkStation

2005-03-15 Thread Nicholas Harmer
Chris Having just successfuly installed SlimServer 6 (March 14th nightly) on my LS-120, I recognised your problem regarding /etc/passwd. I has major problems with the display of vi in my telnet sessions, including the overwriting of the first line of each file, which makes it impossible to see

Re: [slim] New How-To: Installing SlimServer on LinkStation

2005-03-15 Thread Marc D . Field
In article news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], Chris Buckle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By the way Marc, one useful addition to your excellent script may be to advise that a copy is taken of the password file before any drastic editing. Excellent idea. Marc -- Marc

Re: [slim] New How-To: Installing SlimServer on LinkStation

2005-03-14 Thread Chris Buckle
] To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 12:45 AM Subject: [slim] New How-To: Installing SlimServer on LinkStation Hi, I am writing to announce a new article I wrote detailing how to install SlimServer on the LinkStation network storage product by Buffalo. The article goes

Re: [slim] New How-To: Installing SlimServer on LinkStation

2005-03-14 Thread Marc D. Field
On 03/14/2005 11:32 AM, Chris Buckle wrote: Unfortunately my password file doesn't look like your password file and doesn't show a password at all for root. (root:/bin/bash is all that is shown for the first line - which is also partially overwritten by vi information on my screen). I

[slim] New How-To: Installing SlimServer on LinkStation

2005-03-05 Thread Matthias Schnizer
Thanks Marc, your article looks great. I am wondering about the memory requirements on a LinkStation. I have currently ~ 900 albums and my windows server is using between 80-100 MB for the slim process. How much memory does the Linkstation have? Any comments on the memory usage you are

Re: [slim] New How-To: Installing SlimServer on LinkStation

2005-03-05 Thread Roy Owen
FANTASTIC! (all caps isn't loud enough) Thanks Marc. As a Linux Newbie (not a Coward) I've just installed Gentoo on my laptop and was wondering what I needed to do to get SlimServer running *properly*. Now I feel confident enough to blow away windows on my server PC (dual 1Ghz Pentium III, SCS

Re: [slim] New How-To: Installing SlimServer on LinkStation

2005-03-05 Thread Marc Field
On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 11:33:25 -0700, Matthias Schnizer wrote: Thanks Marc, your article looks great. I am wondering about the memory requirements on a LinkStation. I have currently ~ 900 albums and my windows server is using between 80-100 MB for the slim process. How much memory does the

[slim] New How-To: Installing SlimServer on LinkStation

2005-03-04 Thread Marc D. Field
Hi, I am writing to announce a new article I wrote detailing how to install SlimServer on the LinkStation network storage product by Buffalo. The article goes into a lot of detail, including background on the Linux commands required for the installation (which should be helpful to people who are