Hi David,
I'm glad to see I've got some company!
On May 10, 2009, at 2:06 PM, David Given wrote:
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Rick Thomas wrote:
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My first shivaplug arrived this morning. While I was waiting for
it to
arrive, I already purchased a USB hub, a 16GB USB stick (for main
system
residency), and a mess of 1GB sticks (for misc temporary stuff during
installation), so I plan to spend the weekend getting Debian
installed.
Be careful --- this is pretty much the same setup I have (except I
bought four 16GB USB sticks [30MB/s read, 15MB/s write via RAID-0, heh
heh heh] and so far I've noticed that the SheevaPlug is very, very
picky
about USB hubs.
I'm using a Belkin hub. I've never had any trouble with them. A bit
more expensive than the "generics" but worth it!
Next: (when they release a version that supports both of the on-chip
ethernet ports) I plan to replace my home
router/firewall/IPv6-tunnel-endpoint with a Debian shivaplug.
How are you with a soldering iron? The kernel supports both ports
already!
I can make cables, but I wouldn't trust myself to solder directly to
the pcboard. I know some folks who have the skills and the tools. I
may try it, once I've got the software aspects under control.
I'm planning to use a USB ethernet widget on mine.
I'm planning to use the USB for a wifi port; router, Wifi, firewall,
and network utils box all running Debian; and all solid-state so no
moving-parts disks to go bad -- pretty cool!
Rick
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