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--- blog:ex475_with_fedora_17 [2012/12/04 00:29] – brett
+++ blog:ex475_with_fedora_17 [2013/05/28 06:48] – brett
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-====== ex475 with fedora 17 ======
+====== ex475 with Linux (fedora 17) ======
+**You need a video cable for this as it requires a bios tweak**
-I got fed up with trying to figure out how to install WHS2011 onto my ex475.  So I bit the bullet and just installed a linux distribution.
+{{:blog:ex475.jpg }}  I got fed up with trying to figure out how to install WHS2011 onto my ex475.  So I bit the bullet and just installed a linux distribution.
   - Pull bottom drive from your ex475
   - Put drive into spare USB container
-  - Create a VM using VM workstation and point it at a physical disk.
+  - Create a VM using VM workstation and point it at a physical disk (Advanced settings for this)
   - Install Fedora 17.
   - Put drive back and boot it up
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-To resolve the slow disk startup issue required tweaking a BIOS setting (need video cable).
+To resolve the slow disk startup issue required tweaking a BIOS setting.  You'll need video cable http://www.mediasmartserver.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=8066 just the bare minimum VGA only will do as keyboard/mouse on USB are fine.
   * Change from 4P(IDE)+4S(RAID)  to 4P(IDE)+4S(IDE)
+The video switches to a small font I prefer to see the BIOS font and all the startup messages - /etc/sysconfig/grub
+<code>
+GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rd.md=0 rd.dm=0  KEYTABLE=us SYSFONT=True rd.lvm.lv=vg/lv_root rd.luks=0 rd.lvm.lv=vg/lv_swap LANG=en_US.UTF-8"
+GRUB_TERMINAL="console"
+</code>
+x 1Tb drives online.
+<code>
+[root@cheese sysconfig]# df -h
+Filesystem              Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
+rootfs                   50G  1.7G   46G   4% /
+devtmpfs                930M     0  930M   0% /dev
+tmpfs                   939M     0  939M   0% /dev/shm
+tmpfs                   939M  1.1M  938M   1% /run
+/dev/mapper/vg-lv_root   50G  1.7G   46G   4% /
+tmpfs                   939M     0  939M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
+tmpfs                   939M     0  939M   0% /media
+/dev/sda1               485M   66M  394M  15% /boot
+/dev/mapper/vg-lv_home  864G  762G   94G  90% /u01
+/dev/sdb1               917G  200M  908G   1% /u02
+/dev/sdc1               917G  200M  908G   1% /u03
+/dev/sdd1               917G  105G  803G  12% /u04
+</code>
+Same old boring processor.  I never bothered upgrading this.
+<code>
+[root@cheese ~]# cat /proc/cpuinfo
+processor       : 0
+vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
+cpu family      : 15
+model           : 79
+model name      : AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3400+
+stepping        : 2
+microcode       : 0x62
+cpu MHz         : 1000.000
+cache size      : 256 KB
+fpu             : yes
+fpu_exception   : yes
+cpuid level     : 1
+wp              : yes
+flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow up rep_good nopl extd_apicid pni cx16 lahf_lm extapic cr8_legacy
+bogomips        : 1999.88
+TLB size        : 1024 4K pages
+clflush size    : 64
+cache_alignment : 64
+address sizes   : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
+power management: ts fid vid ttp tm stc
+</code>
+The ethernet NIC is working just fine at 1000Mbps
+<code>
+[    7.024358] sis190: sis190 Gigabit Ethernet driver 1.4 loaded
+[    7.024551] sis190 0000:00:04.0: setting latency timer to 64
+[    7.024576] sis190: 0000:00:04.0: Read MAC address from EEPROM
+[    7.042027] sis190: 0000:00:04.0: Atheros PHY transceiver at address 0
+[    7.178369] sis190 0000:00:04.0: eth0: 0000:00:04.0: SiS 191 PCI Gigabit Ethernet adapter at ffffc9000035c000 (IRQ
+: 19), 00:0a:e4:86:6b:83
+[    7.178554] sis190 0000:00:04.0: eth0: RGMII mode.
+[    7.178660] sis190 0000:00:04.0: eth0: Enabling Auto-negotiation
+[   18.728031] sis190 0000:00:04.0: eth0: mii ext = 0000
+[   18.734019] sis190 0000:00:04.0: eth0: mii lpa=c1e1 adv=01e1 exp=000f
+[   18.738022] sis190 0000:00:04.0: eth0: link on 1000 Mbps Full Duplex mode
+</code>
+File transfers are significantly faster than when it was running Windows - I can sustain ~83 MB/s on a 40Gb file.
+{{tag>hardware}}