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On Friday 13 April 2007 16:57, Kai Hendry wrote: > That stuff looks heavy going. NSLU2 and an external USB disk is how I > would implement one NAS simply. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSLU2 I literally yesterday plonked two hard drives into an old box I had lying around here (its a 600 P3, but lesser spec will work) and used NASlite to create a simple NAS system. The basic floppy version is free and comes in a few flavours, depending on the method you use to access - e.g smb, nfs, ftp etc No expense at all as I had the drives spare anyway. It is sitting in a corner happily! I was looking at maybe the "slug" as mentioned by Kai, but came across this NASlite stuff and, bearing in mind it uses standard IDE hard drives, it seemed an easy way to do things. It is Linux based too as a bonus! Their instructions are a little lax I thought - the hard drive must have a primary partition or you cannot get NASlite to recognise it, but, other than that, the info is OK. Because it boots from a floppy, the limitations of the bios on old systems is bypassed - you can simply set the disks to not installed in the bios and let the Linux system on NASlite deal with it :) Mark -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html