As promised in this post where I have described setting up my newer NAS and its LVM filesystem, here is a previous set of posts from a few years ago focused on adapting a Thecus N5200 NAS by getting rid of the existing Thecus firmware and installing a vanilla Ubuntu OS and setting up a RAID…
Continue reading →One really handy thing you can do in your Ubuntu installation is to add a custom .bash_aliases file.Some background… When you SSH into your server a number of commands and files are run. One of these is the .bashrc file which lives in the user’s home directory. This is custom for each user. So when…
Continue reading →This will be the first of our guides where I’ll show you how to do it from a command line and I’ll then show you how to put it all together and automate the install. The reason I ended up doing this was that I wanted to automate my Raspberry Pi setup as much as…
Continue reading →This little guide should help with configuring a USB WiFi adapter in Linux – this was in Ubuntu 12.04 but should work for later releases and other Debian based Unix versions. I recently configured my Raspberry Pi to use a wiki dongle but this guide didn’t work for some reason. This guide still works though…
Continue reading →This (along with all my guides) is for Ubuntu but it could probably be done on any Debian based linux variant. It is worth setting your drives to spin down when the system is inactive. This will save some power and reduce the wear on the drive.First install your dependencies: apt-get install hdparm smartmontools You…
Continue reading →Obligatory warning: Don’t do this! It is stupid! You will delete all your stuffs! You may die!Although most people will ‘tell you’ that it is stupid to enable and use the root account on your server, sometimes it is just really handy! When you are forst setting up your server and need to run a…
Continue reading →I know this release was a few versions ago but it was the one I used at the time of installation and I recall the problems I had then. I expect these issues are not limited to that release so this solution/help may come in handy for other people looking around.I won’t walk through installation…
Continue reading →As a way of introduction, I plan to include some documentation and ‘how to guides’ in this blog. They will largely focus around my own home server set up or the stuff I’m messing about with on the Raspberry Pi.My server currently serves (no pun intended) a number of purposes including hosting my DVD collection,…
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