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bmarkus:
You can use an SD card also with an IDE adapter.
Lee:
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OK, that' less than the cost of the new CMOS backup battery! Now if only we could fool the system into booting from it.
And yes, the NAS bit is in the works for me. I have the drives installed already. Currently booting from hard disks.
Is there any reason that grub, installed on the hard disk, couldn't pull the boot files from a USB stick? Something like ... root (hd2,0) ... (there are two physical HDs, so the USB stick would be (hd2).
tclfan:
The best NAS I know is the well known FreeNAS, free BSD based runs off CD, USB or HD. I used an old computer box (Started with PII based), put CD in and configured RAID1 with two drives in the box. Works like a charm. Network access, no monitor, keyboard or mouse. Just push the power button - On and Off at will. Sounds tell you when ready On and when turning off.. Fantastic system stability and security. Supports RAID5 but I have just 2 drives inside, so RAID1...
fos:
I have an old Intel Mini-ITX motherboard with 1 GB of ram running TC 2.6. It ran 2.5 until 2.6 came out. It is a very low wattage board without any fans. I run it entirely from ram, it doesn't have a hard drive or USB flash. Once TC loads from an external CD/DVD drive, it is going. It is my quick and go computer in the bedroom. I never turn it off. whenever I want to use it, I just wake it up with the mouse or keyboard. The LCD monitor comes out of sleep mode and I'm ready to go in a few seconds. It is the perfect web and Open Office appliance, extremely fast and never skips a beat.
I will post more details next week. I have finals and project due for grad school this week.
Jeff
curaga:
--- Quote from: Lee on December 02, 2009, 02:21:23 PM ---Is there any reason that grub, installed on the hard disk, couldn't pull the boot files from a USB stick? Something like ... root (hd2,0) ... (there are two physical HDs, so the USB stick would be (hd2).
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Yes, unfortunately; it would still need USB support to do so. Grub 2 supports that I believe.
--- Quote from: bmarkus on December 02, 2009, 01:14:13 PM ---You can use an SD card also with an IDE adapter.
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Another good card type is CF. It is an IDE drive inside, so the adapters to plug those are simpler than the SD ones, less likely to break I think.
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