NASLite Network Attached Storage

Hi folks,

Long time user. I set everything up years ago booting from CD with the floppy config disk. This has worked fine for quite a while, but I'd like to take the CD-rom and floppy drives out (plus I think the floppy drive might be going bad) and boot from USB. I read through the instructions to set up the USB boot, but it looks like they assume you are setting up from scratch and will format the drives. I should note that I recently upgraded to 2.65 from 2.06 due to the recent MS patch that caused the server to go AWOL on the network (using NASlite-2 32-bit).

Is it possible to do this without formatting the drives and keeping everything in tact? I didn't want to experiment and lose what was on one of the drives (they're just backups of the PCs in my home, so I could just start backing up over again if I lost them, but it would be nice to keep them since I know the minute they're gone disaster will strike!).

Any help or pointers would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Gary

you do not need to format the drives - set the usb up - it should work - nothing is written to the drives so there is no danger

Thanks Tony. Grabbed an old USB drive just now and had it up and running in about 10 minutes. Used the exact same configuration parameters and everything works great...even my mapped drives on the Windows boxes still work.

Thanks again,

Gary