April 25, 201016 yr HI All, I am not sure this is correct forum section to post this question. Mod, if this is not the proper place, please remove it to the appropriate section. I ordered my Pro License from Tom including the 2 1GB USB Sony sticks. At that time, I was just thinking to build a media server. I didn't realise that you can do a lot more things from UnRaid. Now that I am getting more and more involved with UnRaid, I am installing more and more add-ons to my 1GB USB drive. Last I checked, I only have about 150MB left. I would hate to limit myself to pick and choose what to install. Is there a way that I can install the add-on like unmenu, airvideo, ps3mediaserver and others to a different disk that's not part of the UnRaid? thanks, ~joy
April 25, 201016 yr I don't see why not. I installed a 4GB flash drive inside the case and there is a 120 GB HDD there also. The 4G flash drive is exported via Samba so other network computers can see it. I could have done the same thing with the 120G HDD. I presume you could place all of the packages there, but there would probably be some changes required on some packages to place the configuration files onto that flash drive also and then to reference them at the auxiliary drives mount point. In fact you probably could mimic the directory structure to be very similar to the UNRAID Flash. That is, instead of it being mounted at /boot, it might be mounted at /mnt/aux so there would be /mnt/aux/config, /mnt/aux/packages . . . One advantage is that the packages (and other things) would not have to be reinstalled at every boot.
April 25, 201016 yr Can't you just have two flash drives in there? Use a larger one to boot off of with all your packages and then just leave the licensed flash drive in there with the license on it?
April 25, 201016 yr Can't you just have two flash drives in there? Use a larger one to boot off of with all your packages and then just leave the licensed flash drive in there with the license on it? I wish it could work this way. Then even if the licensed flash had issues, you would still be able to function. As I know it, the licensed flash is mounted on /boot and is read/write for the raid superblock. So the only way around this as I see it is to put the packages on another location and mount that on boot up. I'm sure we can devise a script to actually use the array itself. Although I wonder what else is on there? That's allot of addons. my /boot is 512MB and I have 126MB available.
April 25, 201016 yr Can't you just have two flash drives in there? Use a larger one to boot off of with all your packages and then just leave the licensed flash drive in there with the license on it? I wish it could work this way. Then even if the licensed flash had issues, you would still be able to function. As I know it, the licensed flash is mounted on /boot and is read/write for the raid superblock. So the only way around this as I see it is to put the packages on another location and mount that on boot up. I'm sure we can devise a script to actually use the array itself. Although I wonder what else is on there? That's allot of addons. my /boot is 512MB and I have 126MB available. Actually, this was figured out a while ago. You can easily boot from one flash drive and have the license key on another See this thread: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=3846.msg34151#msg34151 Joe L.
April 25, 201016 yr Author I don't see why not. I installed a 4GB flash drive inside the case and there is a 120 GB HDD there also. The 4G flash drive is exported via Samba so other network computers can see it. I could have done the same thing with the 120G HDD. I presume you could place all of the packages there, but there would probably be some changes required on some packages to place the configuration files onto that flash drive also and then to reference them at the auxiliary drives mount point. In fact you probably could mimic the directory structure to be very similar to the UNRAID Flash. That is, instead of it being mounted at /boot, it might be mounted at /mnt/aux so there would be /mnt/aux/config, /mnt/aux/packages . . . One advantage is that the packages (and other things) would not have to be reinstalled at every boot. I didn't know that I can put a hard drive in my server that's not part of UnRaid but can be shared to all my other computers. That's good to know. Thanks. thanks, ~joy
April 25, 201016 yr Author Actually, this was figured out a while ago. You can easily boot from one flash drive and have the license key on another See this thread: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=3846.msg34151#msg34151 Joe L. Interesting. I guess I don't have to worry about out of space now. thanks, ~joy
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