Hi, I just wanted to post my setup as i was doing quite a bit of research before taking the plunge into purchasing a squeezebox system and a thread like this would probably have helped.
My server is an Acer Revo 3600 (£130 at Ebuyer uk). This is running Ubuntu 9.10. I was going to try with xubuntu once i knew everything worked hardware wise but now its working i cant face the change!. My aim was to have a server capable of streaming to at least 4 Squeezebox units, but one which would sleep when not needed and wake when requested by the units. Also i wanted to use this unit as a torrent client. The first step was to disable the Acer boot bios feature which bypassed booting from usb, and enable the wake on lan bios setting. I then used Unetbootin (http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/) to make a bootable usb from the Ubuntu ISO downloaded on my windows computer. Next, following these instructions (http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=1369043&postcount=1) I was able to set up WOL. This means that when my Server is suspended, hibernating or even powered down any squeezebox device attempting to connect will wake it automatically (from powerdown it take about 40 seconds to running the squeezebox server so suspend is much more user friendly. I then installed the squeezebox server -- colincliff ------------------------------------------------------------------------ colincliff's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=36572 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75927
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