A quick update...
NAS using Ubuntu 10.04 = OK
Revo with Ubuntu & XBMC accessing the NAS using NFS = OK
Xbox in kid's room accessing NAS = OK
Main PC in my office - the one that has sat working with no problems for YEARS! = NOT OK!
13 June 2010
03 June 2010
Is 2010 the 'Year of Ubuntu?'
Not on my main PC it isn't.
I have Ubuntu running on the Revo and a couple of laptops used by the wife and kids who mainly browse the internet and share media. That's all ok.
Now that I have NFS sharing on my NAS I considered changing my main PC away from Vista and onto Ubuntu 10.04.
I have 3 drives in my PC...'C' which has Vista on, 'D' which had media on and 'B' which was a backup. As I now had all my media backed up to 'B', I could use the 'D' to run Ubuntu from....
I have Ubuntu running on the Revo and a couple of laptops used by the wife and kids who mainly browse the internet and share media. That's all ok.
Now that I have NFS sharing on my NAS I considered changing my main PC away from Vista and onto Ubuntu 10.04.
I have 3 drives in my PC...'C' which has Vista on, 'D' which had media on and 'B' which was a backup. As I now had all my media backed up to 'B', I could use the 'D' to run Ubuntu from....
01 June 2010
My How to Part 2: Ubuntu NAS using an old PC
Jeez - what a journey that has been!
NAS now all up and working anyway - let me recount the journey...
Following on from my earlier post, I was left with these steps out of my original plan - oh how naive I was!!
- If all ok, remove my 500gb drive from my main Vista PC (after backing it up) and configure a RAID 1 setup in the NAS PC
- Copy over my media from the backup
- Reconfigure my share connections on my Revo XBMC and Xbox XBMC
