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ex475 with fedora 17
I got fed up with trying to figure out how to install WHS2011 onto my ex475. So I bit the bullet and just installed a linux distribution.
- Pull bottom drive from your ex475
- Put drive into spare USB container
- Create a VM using VM workstation and point it at a physical disk.
- Install Fedora 17.
- Put drive back and boot it up
A couple of things I had to do. Disable Network Manager (NM) controlling the interface.
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
UUID="b65270ab-2b79-473d-8dce-942908383ff2" NM_CONTROLLED="no" BOOTPROTO="static" DEVICE="eth0" ONBOOT="yes" IPADDR=192.168.1.20 GATEWAY=192.168.1.1 NETMASK=255.255.255.0
To resolve the slow disk startup issue required tweaking a BIOS setting (need video cable).
- Change from 4P(IDE)+4S(RAID) to 4P(IDE)+4S(IDE)