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My home file server died and it's time to celebrate as I have a new project!

I purchased the Lacie 500G Home Mini about a year ago. The SATA 500G seagate drive has died. I've always loved this little box but not so much the internal software.

I see this now as the opportunity to play with an embedded distro of linux. However, I'm really outside my comfort zone here. Based on the specs: 400Mhz processor with 64MB of ram, I know I can't really run much here. But, again, this is a learning experience and I'm ready to jump in.

I'm looking for suggestions of how to begin? How does one install an OS when the box has no console. Do I mount to another machine and install from a host OS?

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It's always the psychical ones I have the most trouble with. – Dennis Williamson Oct 28 '09 at 16:30
Thanks Dennis. Spelling, and therefore, meaning corrected. – Richard Oct 28 '09 at 16:36
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I don't know if there's much in the way of a hacking community around the Lacie Home Mini devices, you could start with this page on the Lacie Ethernet Disk Mini, but your first step is probably pull the drive out, and try to mount it in on existing Linux PC, if you can access the filesystems directly, you've probably got a half chance of getting something up and running.

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I have already mounted the SATA drive to a laptop running Ubuntu 9.04 which found the two "system" volumes and the data volume. My goal is to wipe he drive and drop a new OS on the SATA disk. I'd like to turn this into a home linux server (file share and SSH). Would FreeNAS embedded be the starting point? – Richard Oct 28 '09 at 16:50
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Linux supports using a terminal over a serial port as the console from the kernel arguments during boot.

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