Cheap NAS or MSI Wind/Eee Box?

[Stephen]

Dell added drivers to the install image, Which is incredibly handy

And linux has had this ability since the 90's

On 4/3/09, Bryan O'Neal <boneal at cornerstonehome.com> wrote:
> I used dells raids that came with your choice of an os generic install cd or
> network boot image.
>
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> Subject: Re: Cheap NAS or MSI Wind/Eee Box?
>
> 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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>> Subject: Re: Cheap NAS or MSI Wind/Eee Box?
>>
>> 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 ?
>>>
>>>
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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/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
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>>>> [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of
>>>> 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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Stephen