Cheap NAS or MSI Wind/Eee Box?

Bryan O'Neal boneal at cornerstonehome.com
Fri Apr 3 21:02:44 MST 2009


I used dells raids that came with your choice of an os generic install cd or
network boot image. 

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Raid drivers are either injected onto install media or added via floppy

This has not changed til vista/server 2008

On 4/3/09, Bryan O'Neal <boneal at cornerstonehome.com> wrote:
>>And XP/2k3 can only take drivers from floppy
> What? Last time I had to use a floppy for drivers was 1999! I managed 
> hundreds of XP desktops and dozens of Win2003 server and never used a 
> floppy for a driver.  One of my 2003 servers did not even have a CD/DVD
drive.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Stephen
> Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 8:39 AM
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>
> Sadly it is still the only way to get some drivers
>
> And XP/2k3 can only take drivers from floppy
>
>
> On 4/3/09, Bob Elzer <bob.elzer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> What's a floppy ???   LOL
>>
>> Do they still make those ?
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> Stephen
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>>
>> This works well but behaves weirdly with ext3 floppies
>>
>>
>>
>> On 4/3/09, Bob Elzer <bob.elzer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> FYI if you like, you can have the full drive use ext3.
>>>
>>> Using ext2ifs will let windows access your ext3/ext2 drive
>>>
>>> http://www.fs-driver.org/
>>>
>>>
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>>> Alan Dayley
>>> Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 10:16 PM
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>>> Subject: Re: Cheap NAS or MSI Wind/Eee Box?
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 4:46 PM,  <stevensspam at cox.net> wrote:
>>>> I have been debating recently whether to pick up a cheapish 
>>>> networked external hard drive like a Western Digital My Book (that 
>>>> one initially because it can be picked up locally, although 
>>>> initially googling suggests it might not be very Linux friendly).
>>>> Anyone
>>>
>>> We have a 1TB My Book that works just fine on Linux.  Purchased it a 
>>> few months ago.  I partitioned it half ext3, half FAT32 so we can 
>>> use it easily for different things.  (For example, copying files 
>>> from
>>> ext3 to FAT32 causes permission settings to be lost so I want the
>>> ext3 on the external drive
>>> too.)
>>>
>>> Hate the name, "My Book" but it is working well for us so far.
>>>
>>> Alan
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