NASLite Network Attached Storage

I am really interested in getting naslite and I have a old dell system to run it but I was wondering if I could use a Zip drive to load it instead of a flash drive? Thanks for your help

It is possible with a bit of work. Take a look at this guide:

http://www.serverelements.com/file.php?dl=NASLite-in-a-Nutshell.pdf

The process will be exactly the same. In addition, since your USB ZIP will appear as a SCSI disk, it may also be possible to save the configuration settings on the ZIP disk itself.

it is an internal ide zip drive and not a usb drive, does that make it easier, it seems in the bios that I can boot to it.

I would love an answer to this also.....

I have an internal zip drive that I tried using following the pdf in Tony;'s reply. The zip drive seems to stop working after the splash screen is shown. I started using the usb stick back again, as my tries with the zip have failed.

It probably stopped booting becuase a zip drive is not a usb flash drive. You need to use the non-usb version of NASLite+ since a zip drive will look like a hard disk to the operating system and it will use different drivers and device names to access it.

I posted instruction on how to get NASLite+ to boot off an ide hard drive in the NASLite+ forum. It should also work for a zip drive. Just skip the partitioning directions

As a quick test to see if you can boot from the zip drive, try typing
sys d:
where d: is the drive letter of your zip drive. That will make it bootable to a minimal DOS system.

If you can boot from the zip drive after that, you should be able to get it to boot the non-usb version of NASLite+.

Let us know if it works or if you have problems.