Hi,
Anyone tried to run a naked own Debian on the EX2? I think this would be the best Solution for every Person who like to do serious stuff with this thing.
Berkutta
Hello,
I havent try that my self, perhaps some of the user can provide more info about it.
I too would be interested in such a thing. But it would take someone with a decent knowledge of the inner workings of linux to pull it off.
i think it would be better to buy a raspberry pi or such developing board to test and run different services on debianÂ
ex2 is not suitable , weak hardware and high temp , u just increase the risk of  loosing your data
The Hardware runs here really stable. And against loosing of Data you have to make Backups in every Case.Â
Havenât tried this myself but replying so can subscribe to the thread as I would be incredibly interested in doing this, or freeNAS, if its possible. Â The firmware that comes with this NAS is a joke. Â Ended up buying a raspberry pi so can use it to run all the things that arenât possible due to firmware limitaitons. Â However, even if using the NAS purely for storage I am still limited through things like its inclusion of webDAV but not offering SSL certification - which all versions of Windows 7 onwards require, meaning I have to use third party software to mount shares. Â For the price I paid for this box I shouldnât be needing to rely on third-party software and hardware to be able to do basic things youâd expect a NAS to be capable of. Â I paid ÂŁ300+ for this and it doesnât offer same functionality as a ÂŁ35 mini computer and freeware software - and despite the apparent âout of boxâ benefits of buying this unit its taken me a **bleep** of a lot longer to try and fail to get it to do what I expected compared to what it would have been to just set up a NAS from scratch. Â
Abe_Stew wrote:
Havenât tried this myself but replying so can subscribe to the thread
Have you looked at the options drop-down menu in any post? It gives you the option to subscribe to that thread without requiring you to comment in that thread.
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Hi Everyone, any news on this? Iâve basic knowledge to create a Debian System with deboostrap and Iâm interested in which steps are needed, to install a plain Debiansystem with essential firmware files on my EX2. I want to be able to apt-get/aptitude install debian packages and maybe install the alternative openmediavault.
Wanting to know what the ex2 was capable of I did a Full install of the lastest CentOS version on a iscsi target in VMWare. As we know there are some issues with the unit working against us. And with the ex2 which is already below minimum recommended hardware requirements for running centOS, I knew it was going to be a struggle. Well the install ran! It was ridiculously slow but it did technically work. So what did I learn from that experience or what did I take away from it. First off using an iscsi target on the ex2 is a bad idea it will only make our already under powered units run even slower. You should consider a Linux mount instead. 2nd to help speed the ex2 up donât encript the hard drives. Sounds crazy huh? Well maybe not if mount some type of security and keep all external connections running thru an openVPN. Finally stick with only lightweight operating systems such as Puppy Linux or Turnkey Linux which has mega apps available most are open source, well worth taking a look at. Iâm sure youâll find something that suits your specfic needs.
I really wanted to mount CentOS but it just isnât practical. These nas systems are what are.
Cheers!
justme2 wrote:
Wanting to know what the ex2 was capable of I did a Full install of the lastest CentOS version on a iscsi target in VMWare. As we know there are some issues with the unit working against us. And with the ex2 which is already below minimum recommended hardware requirements for running centOS, I knew it was going to be a struggle. Well the install ran! It was ridiculously slow but it did technically work. So what did I learn from that experience or what did I take away from it. First off using an iscsi target on the ex2 is a bad idea it will only make our already under powered units run even slower. You should consider a Linux mount instead. 2nd to help speed the ex2 up donât encript the hard drives. Sounds crazy huh? Well maybe not if mount some type of security and keep all external connections running thru an openVPN. Finally stick with only lightweight operating systems such as Puppy Linux or Turnkey Linux which has mega apps available most are open source, well worth taking a look at. Iâm sure youâll find something that suits your specfic needs.
I really wanted to mount CentOS but it just isnât practical. These nas systems are what are.
Cheers!
If I understood your experiment correctly, you ran vmware on a regular laptop or desktop and simply loaded the vm stored on an iscsi target on the EX2. Whatâs the point of this experiment??
I mean, you are still using the resources of your regular computer and merely using the iscsi target on EX2 as a storage location. So the underpowered, etc. comments that you made arenât accurate, at least in this scenario (though I agree with that assessment of EX2âs hardware in general).
The slowness in this scenario would not be due to the underpowered processor and low memory of the EX2 (since vmware is not running on the EX2) but rather due to the following two factors:
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The entire vm image resides on a remote storage server and you have I/Os to that image going over the networkâŠeven over a wired gigabit connection, itâll slow things down.
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The cpu and memory resources available to the vm will be off your host computerâs (not EX2âs)âŠand that will be really the other resource bottleneck. Anything you run, any command you execute on the vm will be actually running on the host computerâs cpu.
So again, I donât get the point of your experiment as far as it relates to the EX2, nor the connection to the original post in this thread.
Cybernut1 wrote:
justme2 wrote:
Wanting to know what the ex2 was capable of I did a Full install of the lastest CentOS version on a iscsi target in VMWare. As we know there are some issues with the unit working against us. And with the ex2 which is already below minimum recommended hardware requirements for running centOS, I knew it was going to be a struggle. Well the install ran! It was ridiculously slow but it did technically work. So what did I learn from that experience or what did I take away from it. First off using an iscsi target on the ex2 is a bad idea it will only make our already under powered units run even slower. You should consider a Linux mount instead. 2nd to help speed the ex2 up donât encript the hard drives. Sounds crazy huh? Well maybe not if mount some type of security and keep all external connections running thru an openVPN. Finally stick with only lightweight operating systems such as Puppy Linux or Turnkey Linux which has mega apps available most are open source, well worth taking a look at. Iâm sure youâll find something that suits your specfic needs.
I really wanted to mount CentOS but it just isnât practical. These nas systems are what are.Cheers!
If I understood your experiment correctly, you ran vmware on a regular laptop or desktop and simply loaded the vm stored on an iscsi target on the EX2. Whatâs the point of this experiment??
I mean, you are still using the resources of your regular computer and merely using the iscsi target on EX2 as a storage location. So the underpowered, etc. comments that you made arenât accurate, at least in this scenario (though I agree with that assessment of EX2âs hardware in general).
The slowness in this scenario would not be due to the underpowered processor and low memory of the EX2 (since vmware is not running on the EX2) but rather due to the following two factors:
- The entire vm image resides on a remote storage server and you have I/Os to that image going over the networkâŠeven over a wired gigabit connection, itâll slow things down.
- The cpu and memory resources available to the vm will be off your host computerâs (not EX2âs)âŠand that will be really the other resource bottleneck. Anything you run, any command you execute on the vm will be actually running on the host computerâs cpu.
So again, I donât get the point of your experiment as far as it relates to the EX2, nor the connection to the original post in this thread.
It is useless if you can manage to install VMWARE on EX2. It will not let you configure the RAID on the unit. VMware needs real hardware RAID, which EX can only be use as software RAID.
Exactly jebusx. And cybernut1; it would have been completely useless to mount centOS on the ex2 Linux Kernel simply because the ex2 doesnât have to processing power needed to drive centOS.
So I tried the next best thing imo, mount the a Full Featured centOS version on the ex2 iscsi target and try to utilize centOS via VMWare. Sure the VMWare was on the pc but there is still processing taking place between the nas and the pc and vice versa . It was terribly âHorriblyâ slow but I wanted to see if it was possible. So I got my answer.
But ânoneâ of this was why I posted in this thread in the 1st place.
Iâm sorry cybernut1 that you didnât understand my message.
