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Title: SME & MSI Wind PC
Post by: widman on June 04, 2009, 09:24:29 PM

I'm considering setting up a server using an MSI Wind PC, which is based on an Intel Atom motherboard.  Unfortunately the motherboard only has 2 SATA connectors.  My plan is to connect 1 hard drive and a CDrom to the SATA connectors and install SME Server.  After installation, I would disconnect the CDrom and connect a second hard drive to set up raid 1.  Will this sequence of steps work?  Any insight would be appreciated.

Thanks,
pete

Title: Re: SME & MSI Wind PC
Post by: Stefano on June 04, 2009, 10:30:13 PM

I think so..

be sure nic chipset is supported (check it in Centos 4.x HCL and here (http://smolt.contribs.org))

Ciao
Stefano

Title: Re: SME & MSI Wind PC
Post by: widman on June 05, 2009, 02:54:06 PM

Thanks for the reply.  I've seen a few success stories where people were running CentOS 5.2, so it looks like the hardware is supported.  I may need to grab a separate driver for the nic.  I'm mainly concerned about setting up the mirror drive after installing SME.

Thanks again,
pete

Title: Re: SME & MSI Wind PC
Post by: Stefano on June 05, 2009, 03:04:33 PM

Quote from: widman on June 05, 2009, 02:54:06 PM

Thanks for the reply.  I've seen a few success stories where people were running CentOS 5.2, so it looks like the hardware is supported.  I may need to grab a separate driver for the nic.  I'm mainly concerned about setting up the mirror drive after installing SME.

Thanks again,
pete

SME 7.4 is based on  CentOS 4.7.. are you going to install SME 8 beta?

Stefano

Title: Re: SME & MSI Wind PC
Post by: widman on June 05, 2009, 04:11:14 PM

No I don't intend to install the beta, so I may need to rethink my hardware selection.

Thanks,
pete

Title: Re: SME & MSI Wind PC
Post by: meneer on June 05, 2009, 07:16:49 PM

You might try beta3. It is based on CentOS 52. and it does support the r8169 NIC. On my asus eee box it's running smoothly, feels just like a 7.4 system.

Title: Re: SME & MSI Wind PC
Post by: mr_martinez on June 05, 2009, 09:07:30 PM

Are you going to manually build the RAID after install ?

Title: Re: SME & MSI Wind PC
Post by: Stefano on June 05, 2009, 09:28:24 PM

Quote from: mr_martinez on June 05, 2009, 09:07:30 PM

Are you going to manually build the RAID after install ?

it's not necessary

RAID1 is always created even if there's only one hd..
you have only to connect the second one and add it to the raid array via the console

Ciao
Stefano

p.s. mr_martinez, read carefully the documentation, you'll find it usefull ;-)

Title: Re: SME & MSI Wind PC
Post by: mr_martinez on June 05, 2009, 09:55:51 PM

 Yup documentation is usefull IF things work that way, however I tried it several times before on several servers I've configured and the doc part that reads " It should tell you there if the drives are syncing up " doesnt, it says " Manual intervention needed " . maybe its the hardware used, dont know, dont care. All my servers have Intel boards and widman is trying it on an Intel board, hopefully widman has better luck with this.  :P

Title: Re: SME & MSI Wind PC
Post by: Stefano on June 05, 2009, 10:09:08 PM

if anything doesn't work out-of-the-box, please raise a bug, thank you

Ciao
Stefano