AMD64 FreeNAS options

[shanepg]

Guys,

I got my squeezebox touch a few months ago and I love it. I've had it running very well from an external HDD, I do this because I have a very power hungry PC that I do not have on whenever I'm listening to music. I have recently started to download again and decided it was a good idea to use some of my spare computer bits to build a NAS. This way I could stream all my music from that and torrent download to it. I know a bit about computers but am no programmer.

I had an old AMD athlon 64 knocking about so bought a new HDD and succesfully installed FreeNAS. Now however I realise that the popular slimnas 2.0.2.tgz doesn't work on AMD 64 - DOH!

My question is this:
Which option is best and why;

1: Build a new NAS based on an old P4 I have?
2: Is there a FreeNAS version that will work with both my hardware and LMS (via Michael Herger's slimnas or another 'fix')?
3: Do the unthinkable and just buy Windows Home Server 2011 for £40?
4: Choose a different (user friendly) OS for the NAS?
5: Continue with the exteranl HDD for the music streaming and torrent only to the NAS?

At the moment I'm leaning toward option 3 because I can't really be bothereed to rebuild the box (though I think I could...) and not being a programmer I am a little out of my depth with other OS? I can only make them work with VERY detailed instructions!

A penny for your thoughts... Pros and cons of each please.
Cheers
Shane

[mherger]

You can install the 32 bit FreeNAS on that box if you like.

> 2: Is there a FreeNAS version that will work with both my hardware and
> LMS (via Michael Herger's slimnas or another 'fix')?

Yes, the last officially released 0.7.2

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Michael

[shanepg]

You are the man!
Why though, does it look like all AMD versions are for 64?

http://sourceforge.net/projects/free...eNAS-7-Stable/

8191 and 7903 look to be 64 only.

I suspect I'm missing something, sorry to be a pain but can you post a link?

Cheers
Shane

[mherger]

> Why though, does it look like all AMD versions are for 64?

Because they are :-). Take the i386 build.

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Michael

[shanepg]

Do you have experience of this working?
Will all other aspects of FreeNAS continue to work with an OS based on a different architecture? What potential problems are there?

[mherger]

> Do you have experience of this working?
> Will all other aspects of FreeNAS continue to work with an OS based on
> a different architecture? What potential problems are there?

The biggest difference probably is you can't address more than 4GB of RAM
in 32 bit mode. That's it.

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Michael

[shanepg]

Thanks Michael. I am downloading the iso now. I will update this thread tomorrow. If you say it'll work I'm sure it will.

And while your live can I say thank you for designing the software to make this all possible - I really appreciate it.

[tusken]

have you considered running vortexbox on it? i have just bought an HP proliant microserver and installed vortexbox 2.0 on it. Apart from some intial issues trying to set up a 4tb RAID, its now running beautifully

[shanepg]

OK. Downloaded and successfully installed FreeNAS i386 0.7.2.7903. Followed the instructions from http://www.herger.net/slim/detail.php?nr=1026, step 10 worked fine. After refreshing an extensions tab appeared but under that tab I get this display:


Where is the SqueezeBox server section?
It is almost like a drop down menu wants to appear, there is some distortion in the GUI but nothing to click on.

I used squeezeboxserver-7.5.4-FreeBSD.tgz. I'm not sure why! I vaguely remember some ppl suggesting this older version may run better, is this correct?

Thanks

[shanepg]

have you considered running vortexbox on it? i have just bought an HP proliant microserver and installed vortexbox 2.0 on it. Apart from some intial issues trying to set up a 4tb RAID, its now running beautifully

I have not considered vortex box. I will look into it. Can you run bit torrents etc?