is this a whitebox? i had a hard time on one of mine (a 3 year old pc made up of spare parts) replaced the cd burner with a spare i had lying around...... no joy. replaced it with a dvd burner..... no joy it always hung during the install. turned out to be an interupt and a little play in the bios g...

try open vpn als (aka adito)
it is a clientless vpn.

definetely have to move files off the root. i've had this before. if /dev/mapper/vg_padme-lv_root 70G 67G 0 100% / gets to 100%, mysql & ruby will kick these errors up. clear some files off the root and it will start. this has happened to me 2 or 3 times in the past. look at your torrents and se...

amahi will run happily on vmware server. mine is running on esxi 4.1 and is flawless. my data is on different vmdk's (virtual drives) and i just disconnect those drives and plug them into a new fedora etc when i want to move the data. takes seconds. hardware for exsi can be limited. main thing to lo...

i always do the net install. mind you, i always load minimal which can be a little trying to start of with ie the network isn't even started after a base install.

yeah, most home users should be using amahi rather than a dedicated nas. they'd get more out of it.

try here:

http://embraceubuntu.com/2006/01/29/mov ... partition/

there are some limitations with it at the moment eg no nfs support so i'm going to wait a while. it supports cifs
it also doesn't permit zfs on the root filesystem
minimum _x64 & 4gb ram
http://www.kqstor.com/Child.aspx?page=faq

just remember that this is for samba only and those clients connecting via samba (normally windows clients)
if you use a mixture of clients eg windoze & nix etc, then it may be best to open up samba fully and granulate access with file permissions instead.

glad it worked out..... it's a common problem or misconception with samba etc. when it comes to shares, the easiest way to think of it is layers. imagine samba as a layer on top of file permissions. eg the file permissions have write access to all. samba has write permission for UserA only. only Use...