NASLite Network Attached Storage

I am trying to install Naslite2.04 CD but keep getting shut down when trying to find the configuration device upon installation. I have scoured the forum to see if anyone else has run into this issue but seems I'm the only one. I have shutdown everything on the BIOS and I was able to load Fedora6 without a hitch. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Hi dcyaste,

Can you please post some specs on your Hardware?
have you got a floppy drive?

thanks

I have a compusa pIII 600mhz pc with 384MB RAM. No IDE harddrive. 2-200GB HD on SATA150 PCI Silicon Image 3114 with RAID 1 setup.

I don't have a floppy drive and have disabled it at the BIOS. I have CDROM as the main startup. I have also disabled the USB ports.

I do get a message after the kernal starts stating something similiar to this: Serialize IEE1394 io...
It then goes thru the Resource checking and the fails at the Device Configuration (Unavailable), then shuts down.
I don't have any Firewire port setup.

Any idea?

Thanks.

Hi dcyaste,

The reason its not working is because you need a floppy drive to save the config to. I had this exact same problem last night whilst setting up a server the floppy drive was dead.

The saved config is stored on the floppy drive.

I have removed the floppy purposely so that I can get more than 1 hard drive on the machine. Is there an alternative solution? I thought NASLite2 was completely bootable from the CD.

Thanks again for all your help.

Alternative solutions would be to either get a USB floppy (I think) or get the USB version of NASLite-2.

Hi,

Basic requirements are:

Pentium or better processor
PCI bus
64M or more of RAM
1 or more fixed disk drives
Appropriate bootable media
CD-ROM drive
Conventional floppy disk drive (configuration storage only)
PCI or on-board network interface adapter
BIOS capable of booting from CD-ROM

Anyway, what can you do about it, you could always mount a floppy drive inside the machine and secure it, once the intial setup is done you wont have to remove it again, unless the floppy fails. remeber to boot the CD without the floppy in then when you are ready to save the config insert the floppy then and leave it there.

even if you had purchased the USB version you may have had a problem booting the usb pen? some boards dont support this. and you may have needed a kicker, which again requires a floppy drive.

i dont have a usb floppy drive so cant comment on that.

if you have extra bays you could always buy HD mounts to mount these there.

i'd just lay down the floppy inside the case and secure it. provided you are not a messer you wont have to touch the floppy in ages.