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There is wifi, but this is plugged in directly to a router. As mentioned earlier, yes, lights are lit on the box as well as the router, so there is physical connection, with a brand new cat 5 cable. Eliminating every possible problem one at a time till I get this figured out.

Ignore my bad terminology. By mirror I simply meant to have data in that box, on multiple drives, as well as archived physically elsewhere. I've got a bank of external hard drives that I've been using up to this point, running a program to make one drive mirror the other, in other words, if it's on one drive, it's also on the second drive. This unraid will be the third storage, one I want to use for files I'm not accessing all that often, but as an archive that's not going to crap out on me. At least I hope so.

I only went to the console to see if ANYTHING worked. Since no gui came up, since the network didn't see this box, since this box didn't see anything else, I was poking around to see if ANYTHING was working as it should. Doing ifconfig resulted in Bad Command. So that's all I was doing, trying to figure out if the install was hosed or what. When nothing came up, nothing showed up, nothing made it out to the network, and nothing from the network saw this box, I was just looking to see if anything worked at all. No commands did anything the first time around, at least now I can get the thing to toss the IP address back at me. If the gui had come up, I wouldn't have touched anything else, believe me.

>I just didn't want you to think you were going to be able to do all the whiz bang add-on high speed storage stuff that you see some of the people on here talking about. Your first post started in on the add-on stuff you were downloading and installing, so I wondered if your goals were realistic. Drives are in the case just fine, nothing like a pile of old cases in the garage, some tin snips, and a pop rivet gun, they're all mounted nice and snug with plenty of air flow. >So what response do you get from the browser on another machine on your network if you type http://192.168.1.113 into the address line? Can you ping that ip from another machine on the network? It does nothing, sits there, then says connection is taking too long and times out. Pinging it hits a wall, it doesn't see it there at all, no packets made it anywhere at all. Bizarre.

I think the first thing I need to do is borrow a known good and working NIC. The two I tried appear to be dead. I just tried the internal nic again, and after ifconfig eth0, I am getting an inet addr of 192.168.1.113 and a Bcast of 192.168.1.255 so at least it appears the hardware is recognized at this point, but still nothing trying to log in. I may just hang it up for a few days and beat on it again with a fresh set of brains. Thanks again for the help, it's appreciated

The drives current in there are entirely wiped clean, with this box I've got, it's one that I just picked up, so I put those in there just to make sure the hardware was working and they were visible at this point. Placeholders as it were.

Ok, now we're getting nowhere. I wiped the flash drive, reinstalled, put everything but webgui on it. Now hitting ifconfig gives me info, which it didn't do before, so that's cool. Also, it was unable to execute the command to give me the syslog, which it just did, and is attached to this post. 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? 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. 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. I hope that once I can get the gui up, and can access the thing through a browser on other computers, I'll be good to go. Famous last words, I know. syslog.txt

Open DNS was set up to get around some local comcast dns issues that took them weeks to resolve. ifconfig eth0 gave me eth0: error fetching interface information: device not found. off to wipe the flash drive. In one thread on setup, it said to grab unmenu so I did. Might be good for someone to go back through the docs and put this stuff in one place, finding things scattered across threads, which may be for outdated versions, is mighty confusing. Off to wipe it out and start fresh, thanks again

Ok, yeah, I'm going to wipe the drive clean and start fresh, something's just not right. And I read and read and re-read, and would swear it was ipconfig. I kept thinking it was odd that this uses a windows command. Which it doesn't. So.. yeah, that's what I get for messing with this at 4 am on a crappy little monitor. Part of the issue, I think, which I THINK I finally got cleared up, is someone, years ago, talked me into setting up opendns. Every hit to tower brought me to their unable to find website page. I've got two wifi routers running over here, so I went in and reset to the comcast dns and it appears now things are resolving properly. Tech rocks, except when something goes haywire, then it's a self created hell. There were two files referenced in a setup - unmenu_install1371.zip preclear_disk.zip And, if this is of any help, I'm setting up a Dell Dimensions 2400 desktop. To keep it simple, I'm using built in everything, from the NIC to the video, just to eliminate issues from extra stuff that may need drivers. What I grabbed, in the way of unraid, was the latest build on the download page. Here's the file names of what all I've got going on. unRAIDServer-5.0.4-i386.zip unmenu_install1371.zip preclear_disk.zip Now that I realize it's ifconfig and not iPconfig, let me see if that command works to give me the ip to this beast. Back in a bit. And thanks.

>What commands are you trying to enter? Once it boots, most of what you will probably be doing is in the gui. There is no gui, just a command prompt. It boots, asks for log in, I give it root, then command prompt. So you will need to know the ip address, or perhaps go to your browser and try http://tower (if you have not renamed it). It's not showing up on the network, I've tried the built in, as well as external network cards. Light is lit up saying it's connected, it's lit up on the router, brand new cables, nothing. > If you want to try and connect via ip address, from the console try this command to get the IP address it should have received from DHCP: ifconfig eth0 Again, nothing comes up, bad command trying this. I boot up, see the Lime Tech screen, choose unRAID OS. It loads bzimage, then bzroot, then loads half the known universe for a while, them I'm gretted with Welcome to Linux 3.9.11p-unRaid (tty1) Tower Login: I log in with root I get Tower Login: root Linux 3.9.22p-unRAID root@tower:~# I type ipconfig etho it returns -bash :ipconfig: command not found Any commands I try return the same thing, no commands are accepted. trying to browse to it with http://tower (which the flash drive IS named UNRAID in upper case as instructed) doesn't load.

Hi all- bear with, I'm an old hand with computers, but this is brand new territory. I'm just starting out, and hit a wall. USB drive is set up, it boots, I get the log in prompt, type root and hit enter, and that's as far as I get, I'm at The Prompt, but that's it. I've tried to check internet connection, but ipconfig doesn't work, none of the commands I've tried work, I keep getting a bad command error. I installed the menu from Google Docs, followed it all to a T, but I'm stuck. I'd like to include the log file, but the command to do that doesn't work. It seems all the help files I'm finding are sort of bits and pieces of new and old help files, and assume everything's fine. I've yet to find anything on why commands aren't working. Thanks for any guidance on this.