NASLite Network Attached Storage

Hi Guys

Now that I have everything working , I want to copy quite a lot of data (2 x 320gb to be exact) over onto my raid set.

I am currently running all the drives in the same machine ie 2 x 320gb drives connected to PATA and 4 x 320Gb connected to an Intel SRCS16 Raid controller. At the moment I am copying data via a host machine and as this is via a 100mbit connection it is rather slow (max 5000kb/s as the data has to go both ways).

I was thinking off booting the system up with a Linux Live version and just copying the data over locally from the PATA drives to the raid set as I am sure that this would be a whole load faster. I tried using Ubuntu Live v5.10 but it does not seem to mount the drives for some reason (I am a Linux newb ).

Is their anybody out there who can either tell me how to get ubuntu to see the drives (probably quite simple) or alternatively suggest another small build of Linux that would do this and allow me to copy of the files locally?

Thanks

JohnB

If you want something with a gui I think Knoppix http://www.knopper.net (~700MB) would be in order. That supports just about everything and you can drag and drop.

If a cli is all you want, download grml-small http://www.grml.org (~50MB) and copy it over that way.

boot grml
mkdir /mnt/disk1
mkdir /mnt/disk2
mkdir /mnt/raid

mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/disk1
mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/disk2
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/raid

rsync -aWv /mnt/disk1/* /mnt/raid
rsync -aWv /mnt/disk2/* /mnt/raid

This may not be correct howto. Use judgement.