[OpenIndiana-discuss] Building a machine

[Matt Connolly]

G'day.

I'm using OpenIndiana oi-148 on an Atom D-510 motherboard with 4GB RAM. It's working well, although, I'm experiencing these caveats:

1. no video driver support - only VESA driver, no good on a larger monitor. Not a problem for me as I typically run my box as a headless server.
2. only 2 SATA ports is limited for drive capacity.
3. no ECC memory... My MacBook Pro doesn't either. I went for the cheap option. 

ZFS + Netatalk for file sharing is providing me with a Time Machine solution that I'm very happy with. (Mostly due to ZFS goodness).

Best,
Matt




On 08/03/2011, at 8:26 PM, Scott O'Brien wrote:

> G'Day Everyone,
> 
> First post on the mailing list.  I've just got a few quick questions.  I've found a case I want to build a file server with (just for home) http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=25_1055&products_id=14503 <http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=25_1055&products_id=14503> now I'm at a loss as to what mini-itx motherboard I should put in it.  I was kind of hoping for one of the new low power Sandy Bridge CPU's but can't find any on pccasegear.com.  Any advice on motherboard and HD's to get?  Any idea about how to tell with OpenIndiana compatibility?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Scott
> 
> 
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