Ok Final update. Got all the physical hardware assembled and working. Mini-ITX 600Mhz fanless with 250Gb samsung and 512Mb RAM. I would recommend a faster processor if buying new but I got this cheap from ebay.
Clarkconnect wouldnt install nicely from the CD kept getting a read error so probably something wrong with my image. So I selected to install via FTP and it installed fine (Hooray for broadband). Once the OS was up I copied all my mp3s onto \shared\music. Installed the slimserver redhat rpm and then let slimserver build the mp3 index (after telling it where to look). All looked good until I tried playing a song. It wouldnt open anything which I tracked down via this group to be a permissions prob. So I did a chown and chgrp of the entire music directory telling it slimserver was the owner then got slimserver to redo its index from scratch. Slimserver now runs fine and is so much quicker than the NSLU2 I was running on before. The only problems I have left is that I cant get the USB ports to work at usb 2.0 (only a prob when I do a backup) and the box doesnt shutdown when I press the power switch both could eventually be solved probably with BIOS and ACPI settings. But frankly I am not really bothered. I have the machine running 24/7 sat on a shelf no monitor or keyboard. -- bert1e ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bert1e's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1419 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19741 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
