I have set up a two-server "farm" inside of a 1U rack-mount box. Here is my story... I purchased a Broken Linksys NSS4000. After a lot of testing and frustration, I ended up trashing the guts except for the internal fans. I put in 4 drives in the bays and put in two dockstars (near the internal fans) I bought a sub $40 power supply (From NewEgg N82E16817342052) and four sub $4by WyoGuy - Off-Topic
Bodhi: Thank you for actively responding to my posts. NOTE: I am using the 2014-07 uboot image that I downloaded from your dropbox link. I tried and tried to get uBoot to read the "rootfs" label. I used tune2fs to put the label in the partition and verified it with blkid and I also see it listed in /dev/disk/by-label When I watch the boot-up, I am not convinced that it goesby WyoGuy - uBoot
Thanks for the help, Bodhi For some reason, there is a limitation on the Dockstar so that the methods to find the correct USB boot device fails if the jump-drive is not plugged into the first physical port (the one located next to the ethernet port. This is unfortunate, but I can jostle a few things around and make it fit this way. I am sure that there is an error in the UBoot scripting (iby WyoGuy - uBoot
First of all, thanks to Bodhi and others for such a wonderful, cool project. I have been loading the rootfs image with the 3.16 kernel on a few pogoplugs and dockstars and I am amazed how well they work. For my latest project, I am placing two Dockstars inside an old NSS4000 case (1U Rackmount box). The motherboard was shot and I am just replacing the guts with two Dockstars. In any caseby WyoGuy - uBoot
Amazon.com has the basic PogoPlug for $11 (free shipping) (17 are left at this price) http://www.amazon.com/Pogoplug-Backup-and-Sharing-Device/dp/B005GM1Q1O How are they this cheap? ------------------------- Walmart has a $21 compatible USB2.0 hard drive enclosure (supporting drives up to 4 TB) -- I tested with a 3 TB drive. Vantec NexStar CX NST-300S2-BK http://www.walmart.com/iby WyoGuy - Off-Topic
Thanks, darethehair for this tip. I was trying to use Jeff Doozan's script to install the current Kirkwood version as of today (Kernel version 2.6.32-5) and I was getting all kinds of packages corrupt errors. Like you said, I just remounted the root fs (to make it read-write) with this: mount -o remount,rw / and then I used vi to edit this file: /usr/share/debootstrap/functionsby WyoGuy - Debian
Correct me if I am wrong.... (Not all at once) If I were setting up Debian on a large drive, I would still set up a small /boot partition and a swap-partition. I would think that installing LVM support would allow me to set up a large (almost 3 TB) single partition for data. LVM partitions size is limited by the "PE size" (created before the Logical Volume). It can also be limby WyoGuy - Debian
There is a lot of great info on this forum. After buying the CA-42 cable, I also bought a connector cable like this one: Power Cable for XBOX 360 DVD You only need three of the wires from this connector (and you get two connectors) I connect to the Dockstar using PUTTY (from Windows). I first needed to install a driver for the CA-42 cable. I found one here: Drivers for CA-42 cableby WyoGuy - uBoot
The script should have created a line for the swap in /etc/fstab cat /etc/fstab After booting up, you should be able to do swapon -s and see a result that it is currently working.by WyoGuy - Debian
I just bought three Dockstars, plus drives and enclosures. (One for me, one for work, and one for a friend) Canadian version Dockstar (Seems identical to me except for the French on the box) I did not register my Dockstar to use the PogoPlug service, so I don't know if there is a difference there (I expect not.) The Canadian model is STDSB10GRK (Has a "B" in it instead of aby WyoGuy - Debian