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- | ====== ex475 with fedora | + | ====== ex475 with Linux (fedora |
+ | **You need a video cable for this as it requires a bios tweak** | ||
- | I got fed up with trying to figure out how to install WHS2011 onto my ex475. | + | {{: |
- Pull bottom drive from your ex475 | - Pull bottom drive from your ex475 | ||
- Put drive into spare USB container | - Put drive into spare USB container | ||
- | - Create a VM using VM workstation and point it at a physical disk. | + | - Create a VM using VM workstation and point it at a physical disk (Advanced settings for this) |
- | - Install Fedora | + | - Install Fedora |
- | - Put drive back and boot it up! | + | - Put drive back and boot it up |
- | A couple of things I had to do | + | A couple of things I had to do. Disable Network Manager (NM) controlling the interface. |
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+ | To resolve the slow disk startup issue required tweaking a BIOS setting. | ||
+ | * Change from 4P(IDE)+4S(RAID) | ||
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+ | The video switches to a small font I prefer to see the BIOS font and all the startup messages - / | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=" | ||
+ | GRUB_TERMINAL=" | ||
+ | </ | ||
+ | |||
+ | 4x 1Tb drives online. | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | [root@cheese sysconfig]# df -h | ||
+ | Filesystem | ||
+ | rootfs | ||
+ | devtmpfs | ||
+ | tmpfs | ||
+ | tmpfs | ||
+ | / | ||
+ | tmpfs | ||
+ | tmpfs | ||
+ | / | ||
+ | / | ||
+ | / | ||
+ | / | ||
+ | / | ||
+ | </ | ||
+ | |||
+ | Same old boring processor. | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | [root@cheese ~]# cat / | ||
+ | processor | ||
+ | vendor_id | ||
+ | cpu family | ||
+ | model : 79 | ||
+ | model name : AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3400+ | ||
+ | stepping | ||
+ | microcode | ||
+ | cpu MHz : 1000.000 | ||
+ | cache size : 256 KB | ||
+ | fpu : yes | ||
+ | fpu_exception | ||
+ | cpuid level : 1 | ||
+ | wp : yes | ||
+ | flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow up rep_good nopl extd_apicid pni cx16 lahf_lm extapic cr8_legacy | ||
+ | bogomips | ||
+ | TLB size : 1024 4K pages | ||
+ | clflush size : 64 | ||
+ | cache_alignment : 64 | ||
+ | address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual | ||
+ | power management: ts fid vid ttp tm stc | ||
+ | </ | ||
+ | |||
+ | The ethernet NIC is working just fine at 1000Mbps | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | [ 7.024358] sis190: sis190 Gigabit Ethernet driver 1.4 loaded | ||
+ | [ 7.024551] sis190 0000: | ||
+ | [ 7.024576] sis190: 0000: | ||
+ | [ 7.042027] sis190: 0000: | ||
+ | [ 7.178369] sis190 0000: | ||
+ | : 19), 00: | ||
+ | [ 7.178554] sis190 0000: | ||
+ | [ 7.178660] sis190 0000: | ||
+ | [ | ||
+ | [ | ||
+ | [ | ||
+ | </ | ||
+ | |||
+ | File transfers are significantly faster than when it was running Windows - I can sustain ~83 MB/s on a 40Gb file. | ||
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