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How-to install FreeNAS on a shiny old Netvista N2800
We got this old and useless thinclient named Netvista N2800
one was used as a LTSP client, works good, nothing to say, the other
was there with nothing to do so i tryed to run FreeNAS on that.
- First step:
grab a FreeNAS image for PC and dd it on a CF
insert it in the CF slot in the Netvista motherboard
- Second step:
find out a large (i used a 200 GB maxtor disk) PATA disk, set it slave
cut a molex from and old broken power supply and fix cords as in picture
IMAGE NEXT TIME ....
- Third step:
move the password reset pin,
IMAGE NEXT TIME ....
power on and wait a few seconds while the front led blinks, reboot the machine
find out the bios named "Work space on demand" and magically the Netvista will
act as a normal PC, booting from the CF and starting up FreeNAS.
For a good performance you should find to reach the MAX RAM allowed on the Netvista
that is 256 MB (2x128 PC 100), this is the most difficult part.
- Last step:
Enjoy you new shiny web controlled file server, it's not so fail-proof as it's based on
a single disk and not on a RAID array but it can be used for a lot of "not so critical"
tasks.
So your old/new silent file server is up, for only 30 euros on ebay
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