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blog:ex475_with_fedora_17 [2012/12/31 04:23] brettblog:ex475_with_fedora_17 [2014/10/16 08:06] (current) brett
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-====== ex475 with Linux (fedora 17) ======+====== ex475 with Linux (fedora 20) ====== 
 +**You need a video cable for this as it requires a bios tweak**
  
-<note>You need a video cable for this as it requires a bios tweak</note> +{{: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.
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-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   - Pull bottom drive from your ex475
   - Put drive into spare USB container   - Put drive into spare USB container
   - Create a VM using VM workstation and point it at a physical disk (Advanced settings for this)   - Create a VM using VM workstation and point it at a physical disk (Advanced settings for this)
-  - Install Fedora 17.+  - Install Fedora 20.
   - Put drive back and boot it up   - Put drive back and boot it up
  
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-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=3980 just the bare minimum VGA only will do as keyboard/mouse on USB are fine.+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)   * Change from 4P(IDE)+4S(RAID)  to 4P(IDE)+4S(IDE)
  
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 /dev/sdc1               917G  200M  908G   1% /u03 /dev/sdc1               917G  200M  908G   1% /u03
 /dev/sdd1               917G  105G  803G  12% /u04 /dev/sdd1               917G  105G  803G  12% /u04
 +</code>
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 +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> </code>
  
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-File transfers are significantly faster than when it was running Windows - I can sustain ~100 MiB/s+File transfers are significantly faster than when it was running Windows - I can sustain ~83 MB/s on a 40Gb file.
  
 +{{tag>hardware}}
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