rmariger;198578 Wrote: > Thanks. A couple more questions: > > 1. What case did you buy? Does it include the power supply? How did > you determine your case options and narrow those options to this one?
It took me a while to track this down! I eventually found the details in my emails from the online retailer. This is Australian dollars in February 2004: Via EPIA Mini-ITX M/B ME6000, C3 633MHz, Fanless $255.00 ProCase Mini-ITX 2677 black case 54w Ext PSU, $127.00 Note that the PSU is included with the case, and is external (which means it's fanless, and also reduces the heat inside the case, which reduces the likelihood of needing a fan inside). In addition I had to buy a stick of RAM (which cost, from memory, about $65 - but I recently replaced it with a 1 gig stick which cost just over $100) rmariger;198578 Wrote: > 2. Ive never considered the possibility of a CPU and no hard drive. > This may be a dumb question, but would it be possible without hacking > my linkstation to install linux, slimserver, and browser on a partition > of my linkstation and have the Via Epia system treat that partition as > if it were its own? I know some run slimserver directly off their > linkstations through hacks, but I dont feel up to that. (All my music > is on the linkstation.) Um... I'm not quite sure what that would achieve, to be honest. If you had slimserver running on the linkstation, you wouldn't need the Epia at all. If you wanted the Epia to use the linkstation as its only hard drive, you'd need to configure the linkstation to provide that as a specific service, which would probably require some fairly involved hacking. It's probably not worth it, to be honest. A really nice solution might be to use a small laptop hard drive in the Epia as a "boot" drive, which then tells linux to mount a partition on the linkstation as its root (main) partition. The laptop drive would then spin down after booting, and you'd have a completely silent Epia system with as much hard disk space as you like. The caveat - unless the linkstation supports a decent file system (ext3, NOT fat), this wouldn't work. Also, you'd need a very robust network to avoid major problems with server stability. (an external firewire drive would be better - and the Epia could then completely replace the linkstation) rmariger;198578 Wrote: > Have you tried using your wifes pocket PC to control slimserver? If > so, is it necessary to use the Nokia skin? Is the screen big enough? I've tried it with the default skin. I've also tried SlimRemote on it. They both work fine, but the screen is too small and it's too slow (she has an O2 Atom, which is tiny and slow). Having said that, I really, really like the way the Squeezebox display + remote works. I have a universal remote (Harmony), and the fact that I only need ONE remote for ALL of my devices is absolutely fantastic. -- bukharin ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bukharin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34855
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