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I'm trying to use an old PC as Network Attached Storage at work just to store a few common files on. I have tried to use FreeNAS but I could never mount the disk so I gave up. I went through the forums but it seems to be a common problem - perhaps hardware related.

I have found another product that's free called NASLite but it works from a compressed floppy disk (1.722 MB on a 1.44MB). This can't be created from windows, but on the NASLite website it states that a bootable floppy can be created from Linux using:

gunzip NASLite.img.gz
fdformat /dev/fd0u1722
dd if=NASLite.img of=dev/fd0u1722

I don't actually know how to do this. I am currently running this laptop on a live CD version of Ubuntu to see if I can work it out - I can't.

Any help greatly appreciated.

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  • Skint1
    Skint1 Posts: 1,362 Forumite
    Hi join the Ubuntu Forums and ask there. They are quite friendly and you're more likely to get the help you need.

    http://www.ubuntuforums.org/
    You can always get more with a kind word and a 2-by-4 than with just a kind word.
  • Don't know if this helps, but you can run freenas under vmware using the free vwplayer, so you can play with it on an xp machine, without it affecting a real disk.

    http://www.freenas.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=20&Itemid=32

    This video might help..

    http://www.hak5.org/wiki/index.php?title=Episode_2x02

    re naslite, you can unzip the img file in windows, then format and create the floppy using the 2 commands you mentioned, or you may be able to use winimage to do it all in windows

    http://www.winimage.com/

    or rawrite..haven't used it, but it might help..

    http://freshmeat.net/projects/rawwriteforwindows/
    Ever get the feeling you are wasting your time? :rolleyes:
  • wolfman
    wolfman Posts: 3,225 Forumite
    Hmmm

    Download the zip to your desktop in Ubuntu.

    Then go to Applications at the top of the screen. Then Accessories, then Terminal.

    In Terminal, type (replace <% path %> with the path to the file and <% filename %> with the filename:
    gunzip <% path %>/<% filename %> example,
    gunzip /home/robert/myzip.img.gz
    

    Then you'll need to find the name of your floppy device. Try something like:
    fdisk -l
    

    It should list all of the devices attached, you'll need to identify which one is your floppy. I've never used a floppy so can't really say. Typically though hard drives may be named something like sda1, sdb1 etc...

    Then type:
    fdformat /dev/<% NameOfFloppy %>
    dd if=/home/robert/myzip.img of=dev/<% NameOfFloppy %>
    

    Obviously switch out my example and the NameOfFloppy with whatever it is on your system.

    Sorry I can't be of much more help. Am sat at a Windows machine so it's all off the top of my head, and my Linux skills are still are only getting near to intermediate.
    "Boonowa tweepi, ha, ha."
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