NASLite Network Attached Storage

I am not sure about this. But I have a mini-itx system that I love to run my NASLite CDD on. But I don't have a CD rom in it. Or a floppy. So NASLite-2 HDD should work very good.

But if I take that hard drive would it install NASLite-2 HDD and still have all my files?

This Mini-ITX uses about 80% less power then what I running NASLite CDD on now. That's why I want to switch it.

Some one my of ask or did this before but I could not find it, if they did.

-Raymond Day

HDD repartitions the boot drive, so it is best to install to a new drive or move the data from the target boot drive to a temporary location prior to installing.

I been thinking how to move this over. It's on a 320 GB hard drive and I am using about 191 GB's of it. I have a 200 GB hard drive I could install NASLite-2 HDD on when I buy NASLite-2 HDD. Then just have them both running to copy the 191 GB of files over to the 200 GB. But I want to run the NASLite-2 on the 320 GB.

What would be the best way to do this?

I could hook the 200 GB to a USB and then maybe put in on the CDD and copy the files over to it? Then install NASLite-2 HDD on the 320 GB and copy them over?

I like to keep the time and dates on the files too if I could. I know a Linux command can do that sort of copy but I don't think can log on to NASLite to do that command to copy.

Can any one tell me the best way to copy this? Maybe WinWar it all in one big file then uncompress it back. I just don't know the best way to do this.

-Raymond Day

The system I am going to use this on I have to have a SATA drive. Because I did not make room in the case for it and don't want a big IDE ribbin cable to come out of it.

So I order a 320 GB SATA drive. Just cost $61.50 with free shipping. That way I can just copy all the files over and keep the other one as a backup.

I wanted a small PC just to do my email and some web things and to just stay on all the time. So did not want it to use a lot of power. This setup only uses about 35 watts. Less then $1 a month for the power.

After I made it I found they have a better Mini-ITX that uses a Atom CPU. So I had to make another case. So I had this one left over and it will be very good to use as a NASlite-2 HDD. The one I am using now is on a 500 Mhz 256 MB ram big PC mother board. I am sure it takes a lot more watts like 250 or so.

This one is a Mini-ITX with a 1.20 MHz Celeron CPU and 1 GB ram.

Here is a photo of it with out the hard drive till I get it.



Wanted to make the case as small as I could.

I will buy a new NASlite-2 HDD when I get the hard drive to set it up on it and then just drag and drop all the files to copy them over. Then turn off my other system and just use it as a backup. Maybe truning it on one time a month or so to copy update data to it for a backup.

Wile I am waiting for the hard drive would this be the best way to copy all to it? Maybe FTP to both of them?

O the new Mini-ITX I have now don't need a fan. It's 1.60 GHz Atom CPU and takes 2 GB of ram. It comes with a small fan just for the on board Video. Nothing else gets real hot to use a fan. Not even the CPU, It just has a little heat sink on it. So I installed the hard drive in it. That board only cost about $70 too. A Intel one. Check out other slower Mini-ITX and they cost like $200!

-Raymond Day

I just thought of this. I all ready have a NASLite HDD CD-R so could I just use that and buy just the new number I need? I think so. Just go to buy it and skip the download link?

I see that NASLite-M2 will be out in about a month. I don't want to wait so if I get NASLite HDD would it still cost like $20 to upgrade to NASLite-M2 and I guess I have to copy all the data again for the NASLite-M2 setup?

-Raymond Day

I should get the hard drive tomorrow.

I want to copy the data over from the CDD to the new HDD.

Thinking of installing the HDD on a new hard drive. Then boot a Ubuntu Live CD with the CDD hard drive on it too. Then mount both of them and use a copy command about like this:

cp -pr /cdd/ /hdd

That is if I mount the hard drives as cdd and hdd.

Does this look like it will work? I like to know before I do it.

-Raymond Day

NASLite-2 HDD will not work on this system!

It's a Mini-ITX D201GLY2 motherboard.

It looked like it installs good. But then on a reboot or reset it just stops saying this on the screen.

"Uncompressing NASLite Kernel...
Ok, booting the kernel.
PCI: Unable to handle 64-bit address space for"

I can only guess the Kernel don't know how to use the SATA port on this system?

I been witing a long time to get this hard drive and wanted it to work but it don't I don't know what else to do.

It has a integrated Celeron 1.2 MHz CPU in it. SiS662 chipset

Any one know why NASLite-2 HDD will not work on this with a SATA hard drive?

-Raymond Day

Try turning off all of the stuff not used in the BIOS like the serial ports and the such. Also try different settings for the SATA port and see if it boots.

Mike

I have set the BIOS to SATA legendary mode but that did not help. Set the BIOS optimize defaults. That did not help.

I will test truning off all I can in the BIOS. I hope that works.

Thank you for the help.

In the BIOS it says of the CPU this:

"Intel (R) Celeron(R) CPU
220- @ 1.20GHz
Intel (R) EM64T Capable"

So EM64T and the error of 64-bit may be something.

Did a search on this in here and it just comes back with:

No posts were found because the word 64-bit is not contained in any post.

That's wrong because a google search comes with with this here:

http://www.serverelements.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2365

Tony posted back on that link and said:



He said the BIOS too so I will see what I can set in there.

-Raymond Day

Possible that there is no solution for the board. The chipset may not be supported in the kernal that they are using since they are still based on the 2.4.xx and have yet to switch to the 2.6.xx which might very well fix the problem you both have been experiencing.

That's all I got for you. The only other option I could suggest is to make a really short PATA cable and use a PATA to SATA adapter. Not even sure that it would work to be frank but it's all I got at this point besides changing the MB/processor to something based on Intel for both the processor and the core chipset.

Mike

Yes I guess that's it old "2.4.xx and have yet to switch to the 2.6.xx". Thanks Mike.

I did test a PATA to SATA adapter but it does just the same error. So it's not a SATA type error I guess. I think RAM it don't know how to use the motherboard. The install runs all the way it's just on boot.

Is the NASLite-M2 going to have the new 2.6.xx kernel? I guess it's hard for NASLite to switch to it.

Tested the NASLite-2-CDD. The CD drive is all most as big as the hole system. It does the same thing real fast the same error of:



What does it take to make NASLite use the new 2.6.xx kenel? Is it just compile it to update it?

-Raymond Day

Tony and Ralph have NASLite-2.6 under development which will include a 2.6.xx kernel rather than the 2.4.xx kernel in NASLite-2. No stated ETA as yet though.

How do you know "Tony and Ralph have NASLite-2.6 under development"? is it posted some place?

I just have to wait a long time now for this to work. FreeNAS works on it. I guess it has a 2.6 because it works. But I like NASlite-2 HDD a lot better then FreeNAS.

Do they say about when NASlite-2.6 will be done?

It sounds like NASLite-M2 witll have 2.6 and work on a HDD so I guess NASLite-M2-HDD that will be super and they say it will be out the end of this month. I been waiting for this system to be all set up and it is now. Just have to wait for NASLite-M2-HDD if that's what they call it.

The link about it is at:

http://www.serverelements.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=22&p=13309

But I can't see any place in it were they said it will be the 2.6 kernel. That must be why other installs work with this system. I booted a ubuntu 8.04 Live distros DVD in it with my NASLite-2-CDD hard drive on it. It just mounts it super easy and I can see all the files.

I went and bought NASLite-2 HDD burned the CD but it get the error when booting it after it installs.

I wanted to copy the data over to it with ubuntu but I can't get NASLite-2 HDD to work on it.

A intel D201GLY2. I have a Intel D945GCLF I replace this with and that's why I have this D201GLY2 left over to use as a power saver for NASLite-2 HDD. Never tested NASlite-2 HDD on the D201GLY2 but I sure now it would get the same error.

I hope they fix this.

-Raymond Day

It was stated by Ralph in this thread.

Thank you NickC I did not see that thread before.

I hope it's out soon. I got the new system for it all set up real nice but it's not being used.

Put my old CDD back up. It would be nice to take it off line and use the other one I have that I guess uses about 10 times less power, and hardly no sound at all.

-Raymond Day