I boot from a USB drive so I can isolate my OS from my data. I can change/update my OS without impacting the hard discs. It also optimizes the amount of data that can be stored on my hard drives.
Since you will be running headless, I would think using Ubuntu Server would be your best bet. It will probably give you what you want and leave out much that you don't. For instance, you will want SAMBA, NFS, ssh, and other network services installed. These won't be installed by desktop (though you can install them later on). You also won't want media players, office software, etc. since it will be a server in a closet. For what it's worth, I've been using Open SuSE with much success running off an 8GB USB thumb drive with 2 WD 1TB drives. I've got *plenty* of stroage :-). -- maggior Rich --------- Setup: 2 SB3s, 1 duet, 1 receiver. SuSE 11.0 Server running SqueezeCenter 7.2.1 (7.3 had dropouts for me) and SqueezeSlave. MusicIP has been turned off temporarily while I move to a lossless version of my library. http://www.last.fm/user/maggior ------------------------------------------------------------------------ maggior's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9080 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=58334 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
