nicketynick Wrote: > You're absolutely right, I actually plan on making this box into a > headless server. I've tried SlimCD out, and liked it, although I was > totally lost when I tried to poke around, being such a noob. eg. I > want to run 6.2.2 because I know my system is stable with it, but when > Michael gave me instructions on how to get SlimCD to use 6.2.2, it was > Greek to me, so I decided I'd better get a distro just so I could learn > a little bit. > Which reminds me, I've got a question while I'm here - right now the > music library is on a 200GB NTFS external hard drive. I want to be > able to read/write to this drive from both Ubuntu and XP - do I switch > to ext3? Also, I don't have anywhere to back the data up in one place, > maybe I should just have 2 partitions, 1 NTFS and 1 ext3? Any ideas? > Thanks, > Nick
I think you should consider installing slimCD on a compact flash or an usb key, you don't even need an internal HDD ! I can help you to do this (on an USB pendrive) because now I know how to do it (it is not very complicated). Using slimCD 1.6, I guess you can have slimserver 6.2 instead of 6.3. On my system, I have also configured a share (it is simple) and I can access it from my windows 2000 computer through the network. But your external hard drive should be formatted using FAT32. The size limit of FAT32 filesystem is 2TB (not 2GB, 2TB). You can do it using gparted that is on the ubuntu 5 and 6 liveCD. I guess you will not loose your data (but you should get another confirmation from someone else before ! Just to be sure !!!) -- Mathiou Do you know Viaduc: http://www.viaduc.com/invitation/00219a2skr26usth ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mathiou's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4555 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24893 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
