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 Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2009 9:04 pm
I'm trying to setup a Linux home server. I'm currently running kbuntu but would like to have a bit border support for network cards. I plan on setting up a software raid on it with jbod. I'm not sure if this is possible. I may set it up to be a web server later on down the line. Though I will be using smb for shareing files between all computers on the network.
The server has
1 AMD Athlon XP 2200+
2.5 Gb Ram.
10/100/1000 NIC (This card works just fine in Linux)
1 10/100 linksys NIC (This is the one with problems)
6 HDDs (the Linux OS resides on a 80gb HDD)
1 DVD ROM drive.
Any help would be appreciated.
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Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 6:39 am
What is the problem you are having with the Linksys NIC? I have used hundreds of cheap 10/100 NICs with Linux and not had any problems. (Also, JBOD is not RAID, if your drives are of equal size, you should consider RAID-5 instead of JBOD.)
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Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 10:37 am
Thanks for replying. Your right, i forgot about that. Well it a bunch of random drives. Ranging form 150gb to 350gb. As for the card, kbuntu does not see it. If I do ifconfig from the terminal all I get is the loop back and my gigabit card. The linksys card was working just fine with the server was running windows home server. I was wanting to use my server as a temp gateway but I found an extra router laying around, so the fact that it doesn't work does not bother me.
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Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 12:06 pm
Run: $ sudo lspci To check if your linksys card is being reported to the OS and which specific model of card you have.
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Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 11:34 pm
On top of that what are you planning on using the server for, besides maybe doing a web server on it? Make it a DHCP/DNS server, NFS, Samba, FTP, etc... As for the RAID because the HDDs are all different sizes I would recommend setting up RAID 0 you won't have parity or anything but should work.
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