afterglow;385526 Wrote: > Before I get the Duet, I'm planning on building an Atom server and > making it a music/movie server. Here's what I'm planning to build: > > Intel D945GCLF mobo > 1GB RAM > 1.5TB Seagate HDD > > I'm gonna put it in a closet and will run it headless. What flavor of > Ubuntu should I install?? Desktop or server?? What else do I need to > install??
I'm running a somewhat similar setup, only a pre-atom board. Here's my basic setup: 'Intel D201GLY2' (http://www.intel.com/products/desktop/motherboards/D201GLY2/D201GLY2-overview.htm) 1 GB Kingston Value ram 2 * 1TB WDC GP "Green" HDDs I added a gigabit network card in the only PCI slot it has, mostly because I use the server as a backup destination as well. Picture of the finished system can be found 'here' (http://members.home.nl/cytro/DSC01150%20(2).JPG). I know the case and fans are overkill, but the fans spin at very low RPM and are barely audible. I went with Ubuntu Server as operating system and have not regretted it. It did take me a little while to get used to it, but there is so much information online these days you can figure out almost anything by doing some googling. Initial setup may be a little challenging, but once it is up and running you really do not need anything other than a few commands to keep it up to date. The server runs headless, whenever I need to do something on it, I just use an SSH session and do what I need to get done. I also run Samba with some file shares enabling me to access the files on the server from Windows based systems. I mostly rip my music on a workstation and then move it to the server when its done and tagged. It's run stable ever since I installed it, never had any issues with it hardware wise and I'm very happy with the performance. As I said, the mainboard I have is pre-atom, but the CPU performance is similar to an atom cpu. The only recommendation I would like to give you is to pick the D945GCLF2 over the D945GCLF. The "2" has an onboard gigabit network card, which can come in handy. Of course you can add one later in the PCI slot if your case is big enough, but with the "2" board you keep your only PCI slot free for other uses. You also get a dual core atom, which should keep the system more responsive if you do manage to put a heavy load on it. I actually can't really remember what I installed thus far, but in relation to SqueezeCenter and music I can think of the following: - SSH server (can be selected when installing the server edition) - Samba (can be selected when installing the server edition) - LAMP (can be selected when installing the server edition) - mp3gain - WeatherDateTime (SqueezeCenter Plugin) I use the server as a development server too, so I needed Apache, MySQL and PHP. I don't use any USB devices, I boot from one of the hard disks. Hope this helps you some :) -- furonfour ------------------------------------------------------------------------ furonfour's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17114 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=58334 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
