The media server (aka minime) was running on the 70GB HDD that was in my older laptop when I dropped it hard (nearly breaking my face, back and camera at the same time, don’t ask). \u00a0I had the old minime disk that XP used to be on, and that is 160GB. \u00a0So, I have to swap them around.<\/p>\n
Still no working CD-ROM so I did some research and found that in the FreeNAS \/conf file is an XML configuration file (the same one that is delivered to you when you back up the config – doh!). \u00a0I hypothesised that if I did my previous trick of doing the initial install on the old laptop then replacing the config.xml before the reboot, then I would be away… \u00a0I have an external caddie for the IDE drive (bought when I dropped the old machine) so set that up on FreeNAS and copied the config.xml file over. \u00a0My cunning plan worked perfectly.<\/p>\n
I could have copied over the whole configuration at the same time, but I was unhappy with how I had played with permissions on the first attempts at sorting out the printer and I was also unhappy with the location of the slimnas app. \u00a0I’d decided to make a \/app folder for both the printing and the slimas apps.<\/p>\n
I thought that having the slimnas setup all working (and the music and playlists on another external drive) would make it a breeze. \u00a0I installed slimnas, copied over the database files (\/mnt\/data\/app\/slimnas\/squeezebox\/SQL\/msql) and the preferences\/plugins (\/mnt\/data\/app\/slimnas\/etc\/squeezebox) and started squeezeserver. \u00a0No dice. “ps ax” did not show it running. \u00a0I got it running by editing the 5 places in the server.prefs file. \u00a0Sadly the database was not there, so I will have to do a full scan, then restore the trackstat stuff, but that’s life. \u00a0I may have to do that anyway when I move the music one more time, back to the \/mnt\/data folder. If I bother.<\/p>\n
Next was setting up the print server once more. \u00a0I had tried the FreeNAS as a print server original instructions<\/a> but been clueless in the past and worked my way through by reading various sites. \u00a0With my greater knowledge the instructions now make sense, so I am hoping I can muddle through. \u00a0I feel pressure to get it working by tomorrow, but need to sleep. \u00a0Shattering time in rough seas fishing for blue cod today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The media server (aka minime) was running on the 70GB HDD that was in my older laptop when I dropped it hard (nearly breaking my face, back and camera at the same time, don’t ask). \u00a0I had the old minime disk that XP used to be on, and that is 160GB. \u00a0So, I have to … Continue reading media server revisited… (Why do I do this?)<\/span>