Hi Rene, I'll tell you a little about my project that I embarked on a few months back and it's still work in progress but you might understand some of my queries package selections a little bit better.
It all started some months ago when I was looking for a NAS that had all the functionality that I wanted, and me being me I wanted a lot of functionality from one box. I looked all over the place for one that would suit my needs and I did see some that I did consider but they were a compromise. After some research I found that majority of these boxes were just running Linux with various packages installed to give the required functionality. After a bit more research I found that I could match or better the price of one of these boxes by buying the components and making my own NAS and installing Linux on it. I started off by trying to get Debian working on the box, but I encountered a lot of problems as I needed later versions of some packages than they had in their distro. I started compiling some of these newer packages and getting them to work but one package would then break another package and I was going round in circles. This is the point where I got to with Debian as a distro as I came across an article in a magazine about the T2 project and I decided to give it a try, and I have been with T2 ever since. Yes I have had problems as you are aware of, but in general I like the principal of the project and it keeps me going with it. My setup is as follows :- 1 x Motherboard with built-in graphics and 1 NIC (External Interface) 1 x Core 2 Duo 1 x Adaptec 31205 SAS/SATA Raid Card 5 x 750Gb SATA Hard Drives (RAID5 3Tb) 2 x 1Gb Ram 1 x Routerboard 4 Port NIC (Bridged br0 (4 port switch)) 1 x MiniPCI Atheros Chipset A/B/G Wireless Card (Bridged br0) The aim is to have this functionality :- * NAS * Wireless Router (NAT) (Mine is not powerful enough for my internet connection speed) * Firewall * Switch (Hence all the NIC's) * DNS Forwarding * DCHP Server * Print Server * Bittorrent Client * uPnP (I have a package ready to be submitted for this, it's in testing at the moment) * DNLA Server (A must if you have a PS3) (Can't see one in T2 yet) * NTP Client * SSH * Apache * MySQL * PHP Think that covers everything and gives you an idea of my goal, anyone's comments are on this setup are welcome. FYI I think you might want to remove the GPT patch, as I believe you can't install then GRUB on a non GPT disk. (I had this fix in my build system already) Regards Adam -----Original Message----- From: René Rebe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 August 2008 13:53 To: Adam Stirk Cc: T2 developers mailing list Subject: Re: [t2] RE: [t2-svn] rev 30132 - trunk/package/x86/grub HI Adam, I don't think it includes GPT support, yet. However, with mostly Intel Macs over here in the office it would make sense even for us to backport support for this - should not be too hard. What machines do you use there to have GPT in use? Tweaking all code paths of GRUB to use non 32bit indexes for disc access will be harder. What is your disc configuration to get 2TB storage? E.g. our main server has 4 single 500G discs to form 2G of RAW storage thru RAID5. Honestly I think GRUB 2 should have been a gradual transformation instead this never ending rewrite. That GRUB 1 is sort of unmaintained does not exactly help it's popularity either (e.g. most distributions already use isolinux for CD booting, while we already spent multiple days quirking various USB CD related BIOS bugs, and recently imported the grub-suns as well as the grub-os patchset to fix even more, and get PXE UNDI BIOS stack network boot support, ... I started a grub2 package already on my latop, but given it recently had no CD boot code and all the rest is also incomplete and in flux it only makes sense to have it optional in addition to other, stable boot loaders. Thus I did not yet finished a grub2 package as it requires quite some tweaks to install files named grub2 to make it possible to install it along grub(1). Comments (and patches) welcome, René Adam Stirk wrote: > Rene, > > Does this patch set include GPT support? Also are there any plans to add GRUB > 2? I know this has GPT support and support for partitions bigger than 2Tb. > (my system has 4Tb of disk space and was a royal pain in the arse to get > working) > > Thanks > > Adam > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 20 August 2008 12:51 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [t2-svn] rev 30132 - trunk/package/x86/grub > > > Author: rene > Date: 2008-08-20 13:51:25 +0200 (Wed, 20 Aug 2008) > New Revision: 30132 > Log: > * updated grub to the "accumulated /fixes/" patchset 0.97-os.7 > (which also includes PXE UNDI network stack support as the new > grub-sunos package, as well as other accumulated fixes) > > Review the ChangeSet with: > svn diff -c 30132 https://svn.exactcode.de/t2 > > Added: > trunk/package/x86/grub/default-menu.patch > trunk/package/x86/grub/netboot-fixes.patch > Removed: > trunk/package/x86/grub/2g_limit.patch > trunk/package/x86/grub/mactel.patch > Modified: > trunk/package/x86/grub/gcc-4.0.patch > 36 +++++++----------------- > trunk/package/x86/grub/grub-0.95-graphics.patch > 13 ++++---- > trunk/package/x86/grub/grub.conf > 12 ++++++++ > trunk/package/x86/grub/grub.desc > 6 +++- > trunk/package/x86/grub/no-menu-border.patch > 19 ++++++++++++ > -- René Rebe - ExactCODE GmbH - Europe, Germany, Berlin http://exactcode.de | http://t2-project.org | http://rene.rebe.name
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