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  1. Never update unRAID ever again if using OEM

    Run the risk that activation will fail randomly and without notice some time in the future with no legal means to reactivate other than paying for a full license via the phone.

     

    having rung Microsoft dozens of times to reactivate after motherboard replacements / P2V / V2V  etc (10 years into computer tech) I've never been told no once, on the off-chance you actually get transferred to someone just explaining the situation "i formatted" "replaced motherboard" they always activate, basically windows 7 allows you 3 activation until phone which is automated 90% of the time

     

     

    edit: sometimes they do get you to read the product ID off your licence although that was more for the windows xp sp1 keys that didnt work after sp3

     

     

    editedit: and yeah technically you need one retail key per virtualised instance (or one data-center licence per VM Host) but imho you're fine with OEM (as they never could come to a conclusion exactly what allows it to be an OEM install, one stick of ram or a keyboard or what last i heard)

  2. and although strictly you could email tom and keep the cost for two servers at $149  it might end up at $300 for that backup key some people advise to get !!!  Of course, you only have 1 parity disc  :(

    the more i investigate this product the less attractive it is becoming  :'(

    your first key is $119 its $30 for a second one (or two for $149) if you read http://lime-technology.com/registration-keys/

     

    one parity disk but no striping so only lose whatever data was on the drive that died (if more than one die at once)

  3. Celeron 430 / 2Gb.

    Moving forward, I have had great service out of the hardware and the fact that it will not support x64 based unRAID 6.0 is not a big deal. In real world terms this hardware is old and has already returned it's value to me.

     

     

    it should do, from intels  arc for the 430 - Instruction Set 64-bit

    Intel® 64 ‡ Yes

  4. So, on windows 64 its no problem to run 32bits binaries without rebuilding. But on linux this not possible? Things have to be rebuilt for 64 bits otherwise they don't even run?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WoW64

    for *nix it adds complexity that people would rather not support (multilib doesnt work very well usually and even worse on slackware)

    its one more thing to support when the alternative is to update the software which tends to be a better answer anyway

     

    edit: and windows only runs x32 binarys that dont touch drivers or hardware in any real way, nix tends to get a bit more direct especially appliance level nix

  5. I wiped the flash drive, reinstalled, put everything but webgui on it.

    With the webgui- can this be unzipped and just dropped into a folder on the drive /boot/plugin or does it have to be installed through the console?

    as he says above, thats an addon, stop adding things :P

     

    with ifconfig  I get an ip address, which I didn't get before, it's showing as 127.0.0.1 however, browsing to that ip, it isn't found.(Web page not found when viewed in Chrome) so I'm guessing that's because the gui isn't in place.
    no thats because 127.x isnt a valid address, its a loopback address

     

     

    This is a bigger can of worms than I was expecting, I've been messing with computers since I built my first, a Sinclair, but linux is something I've not dinked around with at all, so it's a pretty steep learning curve.

    not nearly as hard as getting a new network card going under nt4 or dos was

     

     

    the syslog doesnt show any networking info, are you still using the onboard or have you swapped? (you could put all your cards in and hook them up until  we find out what one works)

    again, what onboard NIC does it have? what other NIC cards have you tried?

  6. the actual install docs are here - http://lime-technology.com/unraid-server-installation/  assuming you have a working supported NIC and working local DNS those docs work fine

     

    everything else is an addon, get it working on the basic imho

     

    try just "ifconfig"

     

    it's reading like it doesnt support your network card, try the PCI one again (preferably an intel or realtek)

     

    quick googling i cant find what onboard card that pc has

  7. check your router, maybe its got an IP but your local dns hasnt updated, check your router (or dhcp server) leases see whats there

     

    what NIC do you have? maybe its not supported... using version 5.0.4 ?

     

    why is your kernel newer than mine...

     

    Tower Login: root

    Linux 3.9.22p-unRAID

    root@tower:~#

     

    5.0.4 uses 3.9.11p ....

     

    "I've yet to find anything on why commands aren't working."

     

    because those commands dont exist, they're either wrong (in the case of ipconfig vs ifconfig) or have been depreciated

    you need to tell us what other commands dont work

     

    try it without instaling the new webgui first imho

     

    I type

    ipconfig etho

     

    thats ifconfig eth0 (thats a zero)

     

     

    heres mine:

    root@Unraid:~# ifconfig eth0

    eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr BLAHDEBLAH

              inet addr:192.168.0.200  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0

     

     

    I installed the menu from Google Docs

     

    what menu... the official beta one is on github not googledocs...

     

     

    but yeah you should start fresh first make sure it works

    (and what NICs are you trying)

    trying to browse to it with http://tower (which the flash drive IS named UNRAID in upper case as instructed) doesn't load.

     

    "doesnt load"

     

    browser gives you a "cannot connect" ? (dns/ip error)

    404 not found? some php error? (some issue with the webgui)

     

    you need to be more descriptive :(

     

     

    http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=9822.0

    you might want to read through bits of the stickied "read this first" Thread

  8. thanking you, figured as much but wanted to make sure i wasnt crazy when did this dm thing become standard

      :'(

    that'll teach me for not doing any "heavy" linux work in 4years+ and trying to jump right back in

     

     

    edit: i knew i was right, linux software raid googling leads mainly to mdadm (which makes sense i guess)

     

     

     

    editedit: weirdly enough all this last couple months crazyness leading me into more investigation and planning of what i'd actually like my server to achieve i'm leaving towards windows2012 storage server with snapraid, dont like the interface but that + drive pooling does seem to fit my needs better.... if the unraid array cannot coexist with another array especially

    (more comfortable in the wintel world)