[solved] How to install Linux on the Fujitsu Scaleo Home Server 2205

jazz.arch · 2009-05-10 13:14:26

Hello!

I am currently thinking about buying a Fujitsu Scaleo Home Server 2205.
The according datasheet can be found here.

The default installation includes Windows Home Server, which is why I have to find a way to install Linux on it (still thinking about which distribution).

But since it doesn't offer regular installation interfaces, I don't know how to do it without having to buy extra equipment.

I thought about just swapping one hard disk, and installing using a regular PC, but figured that this would cause problems with RAID afterwards.

What do you suggest?

Thanks!

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tomk · 2009-05-10 13:30:13

Spec sheet says it has USB - that qualifies as a "regular installation interface" these days.

jazz.arch · 2009-05-10 17:46:53

I can't plug in a Monitor, since it doesn't have a graphic card, if I haven't overlooked something.

How can I run the installation without one?

thoffmeyer · 2009-05-10 18:38:09

Simple, ssh.

jazz.arch · 2009-05-10 18:49:04

thoffmeyer wrote:

Simple, ssh.

Isn't it required to install openssh and change the sshd_config first?

tomk · 2009-05-10 19:20:33

No monitor/keyboard - hadn't noticed that. If you haven't bought it yet, I'd say don't - invest in something more useful. You may be able to get it going, but not without a lot of hassle.

jazz.arch · 2009-05-10 21:53:10

tomk wrote:

If you haven't bought it yet, I'd say don't - invest in something more useful.

No I haven't bought it yet - but I would really like to have a Home Server to fool around with.
Any recommendations?

If anyone comes up with a solution, I'd still be happy to do this.

After some more research, I found the following:
http://www.instalinux.com/

This should basically install itself. I'm still unsure if it would install itself with correct RAID and SSH configuration, though.

I even thought about PXE boot, but I have no idea how to pull this off, since I can't even tell the machine from where to boot.

lucke · 2009-05-10 21:59:03

Don't you or any friends have an old PC lying unused? I'm using my old PII 350 for a router/server.

fijam · 2009-05-10 22:20:39

Debian has a good support of NAS devices (especially ARM-based), see http://www.cyrius.com/debian/

Old PCs tend to spin the meter fast, you might want take this into account if you plan on running the server 24/7.

PJ · 2009-05-10 22:38:01

I think it is better to look for somthing that is much more Linux friendly. This thread contains a lot of interesting tips and URLs: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=61662&p=1

lucke · 2009-05-10 22:46:40

fijam wrote:

Old PCs tend to spin the meter fast, you might want take this into account if you plan on running the server 24/7.

That's an interesting point. Do you have any data? I'd guess that pre-P4-era components are consuming less power than most modern ones. My PII with S3 GPU, 2 NICs and one HDD drains 50W in idle, you'd have to go with Atom or Goede or Via offerings to go much lower than that.

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R00KIE · 2009-05-10 22:51:05

PJ wrote:

I think it is better to look for somthing that is much more Linux friendly. This thread contains a lot of interesting tips and URLs: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=61662&p=1

PJ said it all, I would get one of those mini-itx or smaller machines.

Also if you can wait a little, one of those new designs based on nvidia's ion, those seem to be quite good.

fijam · 2009-05-11 07:08:10

lucke wrote:

That's an interesting point. Do you have any data? I'd guess that pre-P4-era components are consuming less power than most modern ones. My PII with S3 GPU, 2 NICs and one HDD drains 50W in idle, you'd have to go with Atom or Goede or Via offerings to go much lower than that.

I remember having a 300W PSU in my Celeron Mendocino-based PC but I never bothered to measure the actual power consumption at the wall socket. Did you measure that 50W at the socket?

For comparison, TS-109 idles at 14W while Linksys NSLU2 at just 8W.

Of course, 266MHz ARM/32MB RAM in NSLU2 will not be enough for most applications. I am personally really excited about Marvell's Kirkwood platform, Sheevaplug drains only 4W idle / 7W full load (!) and actually sports a 1.2GHz processor / 512MB RAM. If only they made a proper NAS solution using this platform... edit: they did, there's TS-119 but QNAP is traditionally overpriced.

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jazz.arch · 2009-05-11 16:39:33

Thanks for all the useful information! I'll take my time and choose wisely.

If someone comes up with a solution for the initial problem, though, I'd still be happy to know - just out of pure interest.

Shadow256 · 2009-05-14 06:22:10

Hello,

the system has a PCI Express slot. You can get also a console via the serial interface on the mainboard http://ss4200.pbworks.com/Console-Access-via-RS232.

Intel sells it as Intel Entry Storage System SS4200 which is exactly the same device. The only difference is the operating system. The 4200 runs with Linux from EMC, the FSC device runs Windows Home Server.

Regards,
Shadow256

jazz.arch · 2009-05-21 09:51:10

Using the flash drive is a great idea!

Thanks for the detailed instructions you posted, blasenpaule.
If anyone is interested I could translate them to english - just send me a message.

I already thought about buying one of the QNap systems, but decided they would not fit my needs, since the main reason I buy a home server is to fool around with it, to learn a lot while doing so, and probably to use it as another place to keep some data backups.
I basically want to install everything myself, and since QNap systems offer loads of preinstalled functions, which I would have to pay just to deinstall them, I decided against one.

The cable using the serial port may be a very easy solution, too!

Pank · 2010-02-11 12:29:01

Sorry for bumping this old thread. I for once would very much like to see a translated version of blasenpaule's guide.

tomk · 2010-02-11 15:30:20

Pank - you didn't need to bump the thread. blasenpaule said you could email him, so just do that.

Closed.

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