Hi SeZo
Thanks for that but unfortunately I’ve now installed OMV the way I set it up in my previous post and it’s booting now for the first time as I type this
Many thanks
Graeme
On a normal PC I’d agree with SeZo … but thinking about it, it probably makes more sense to have the hard drives that are going to be shared NOT on the same cable as the CDROM … and as a NAS the OS is not really going to be accessed that much ?
I’d have gone with:
Primary master = OS
slave = CDROM
Secondary master = one of the shared drives
slave = room for another shared drive
SeZo … I don’t mean to come across as disagreeing … oddly I nearly posted the exact same thing (not having CD and OS HDD on same cable) … but then considered this aint a normal setup.
Just saying it the way I’m seeing it … which could just as easily be completely wrong :o
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Thanks Mark,
My thinking was that the CD-ROM would slow down the channel it is connected to.
The OS would have to access the temp, var, log (and in case of low memory) swap.
This could impact the overall performance. Putting the CD-ROM at the end would also make it easier to replace it with a hdd at a later date for maximum storage without disrupting the rest of the setup.
OK I now have it installed and can log into the Web GUI, physical drives are listed as
/dev/sda: 9.53gb (Boot drive)
/dev/sdb: 74.53gb (storage)
I understand I’ve not got the Drives set up right but it would be a pain to change it now so will that be ok for the purposes of testing if so, I’d appreciate some help installing the usb wireless adaptor,
Although I have the usb device plugged in it is not showing at all under network interfaces, how should I proceed from here
Many thanks
Graeme
My thinking was that the CD-ROM would slow down the channel it is connected to. The OS would have to access the temp, var, log (and in case of low memory) swap. This could impact the overall performance. Putting the CD-ROM at the end would also make it easier to replace it with a hdd at a later date for maximum storage without disrupting the rest of the setup.
That does kinda make sense
Should we have a vote all those in favour say aye 
Actually unless the system does a lot of swapping (in which case SeZo is right) I doubt if HDD orientation will make a major difference … effectively this is only going to have to keep up with an ethernet link.
(theoretically what SeZo says does make sense though)
Putting the CD-ROM at the end would also make it easier to replace it with a hdd at a later date for maximum storage without disrupting the rest of the setup.
That kinda makes sense … I thought Debian uses UUID’s to identify partitions … that said it would certainly make more sense to a human trying to make sense of it as we saw before 
Although I have the usb device plugged in it is not showing at all under network interfaces, how should I proceed from hereYou could start with this:
Have you got an ethernet connection to the internet ?
Ok I have an active ethernet connection and I can log into the Web GUI so I’m good to go that way if that’s ok
2 secs … it would be easier to add the repo to /etc/apt/sources.list
then just download/install it along with wpasupplicant
Do you remember how to add the repo to sources.list ?
Do you remember how to add the repo to sources.list ?
Sorry I don’t there was so much going on when we did it last time I can’t take it all in 
Run
nano /etc/apt/sources.list
and add 2 NEW lines at the bottom that reads:-
Debian repos added by Emegra
deb Index of /debian squeeze main contrib non-free
SAVE the file, and then run:
apt-get update
then
apt-get install firmware-atheros wpasupplicant
did that work ?
There is an update manager within the Web GUI with a whole lot of available updates it may be in there
it might be … but I’m guessing sources.list only contains the security update repos … like it did before
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If you’ve added the repo as I said … DO NOT … use the update manager in the webUI yet.
E: Could not get lock /var/cache/apt/archives/lock - open (11: Resource temporarilly unavailable)
E: Unable to lock directory /var/cache/apt/archives/
what gave that ?
have you got the update manager open in the webui ?
what gave that ?apt-get install firmware-atheros wpasupplicant
have you got the update manager open in the webui ?
Yes
Close the update manager … then try again.
and can we slow down a bit here … until we get the wireless stuff installed and that repo disabled again.
[EDIT]
The update manager wasn’t actually getting updates was it ? … if so let it finish.
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Ok I closed out of the Web GUI completely and tried and getting the same results
The update manager wasn't actually getting updates was it ?
No, the updates have to be selected manually and I didn’t set anything running