Hey thought this might be a little helpful for you guys if you wanted to get a GUI running on this…this was a post I made on the forum.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showth…..?t=1615373

I have seen a lot of people  use a Kill-A-Watt, but it does not interface with your computer.

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb…..=0&y=0

Post edited 6:58 am – November 15, 2010 by dshepard

I solved my problem!! This link http://ubuntuforums.org/showth…..p?t=538448 pointed me in the right direction. I had a problem with "Wake on Lan" even though I am not dual booting. I guess there were still remnants of Windows Server 2003 affecting the NIC. Anyway now all is well.

Now I have to read up on drive partioning. Eventually I am going to put 2 2TB drives in here so I will want to partition them to accommodate various users and/or subdirectories for my media.

Post edited 12:27 am – November 15, 2010 by dshepard

rosemary said:

If you provide me with some details about your setup, I might be able to help. Maybe we can setup a static IP for your TSmini. This is useful anyway if you intend to use it as a server.

No problem, glad there are few other folks out here who are putting linux on

their servers. Hopefully we can help each other.

What I am trying to do is set it up to be a simple file server

for my video media. I have a bunch of Netgear servers running, but if I can

get these working (I have a second on order) I will probably replace them with

these two servers. I also ordered 4 2TB Samsung drives from Newegg for $79.99

each as well. Newegg had an early Black Friday sale.

Here is the contents of my "interfaces". I have tried both static and dhcp, both

act the same way.

[PHP]# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system

# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface

auto lo

iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface

#auto eth0

#iface eth0 inet static

#       address 192.168.1.104

#       netmask 255.255.255.0

#       network 192.168.1.0

#       broadcast 192.168.1.255

#       gateway 192.168.1.1

#       # dns-* options are implemented by the resolvconf package, if installed

#       dns-nameservers 192.168.1.1

# The primary network interface

auto eth0

iface eth0 inet dhcp[/PHP]

hey dshepard,

I'm sorry I didin't read your posts earlier, but glad you figured it out. Please feel free to send me PMs if I don't respond earlier.

/etc/init.d/networking restart does the following: it stops and then starts the network. Starting the network lets your machine ask for a new IP address from the DHCP server on your network, which is probably your cable/DSL/wireless modem/router (unless you set the IPs manually).

Strange though that on boot, there seems to be a timeout from the DHCP server. If you provide me with some details about your setup, I might be able to help. Maybe we can setup a static IP for your TSmini. This is useful anyway if you intend to use it as a server.

Post edited 11:59 pm – November 13, 2010 by dshepard

I also had to add "i915.modeset=0" to get my TS Mini to properly startup.

How does one set it up so you don't have to type it in at every reboot?

Another problem I have is that until I type:

sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

I cannot access the network/internet. Once I type the above line, everything

works as expected. (so far)

P.S. I installed 10.10 server

Hey Aaron,

I can now borrow the USB disc drive again. I have a couple of distros around here, I'll try them out and then post here.

Fedora12, Linux Mint, OpenGEU, some Debians… I'll let you know.

Today I installed an SSD, see the thread!

Post edited 9:15 pm – November 10, 2010 by rosemary

Hey aaronr8684,

Actually the admin should do this, but looks like he doesn't bother. So I say thanks for posting :-)

Cool, if they removed the splash, then they probably scaled down to soft drugs ;-)

So far, so good. I have now a CUPS server on it running so I can print from all PC's in my local network. Works nice with Windows and Linux.

Post edited 9:52 am – October 9, 2010 by rosemary

Well, at least it installed well. Now after booting, it hangs shortly after it mounts the root partition. One of the first things the kernel does after mounting is to recognise the attached USB devices, which happens correctly.

But this is also the last thing it does. It just hangs, no kernel panic or anything.

But the installation went smooth, with network. So I'll go into the BIOS and see if disabling on board devices helps. And unplugging USB devices first.

At the worst, I'll have to install another distro…