add new hardware to Vortexbox

[properjob70]

I've built and beta tested my VBA and got it running smoothly now.




The old pc I used as a base only had a 40GB HDD in, so I'm about to install a PCI card with eSATA ports on it and 2 x 2TB internal SATA drives.




Do I have to install drivers etc.? If so how?

[Ron Olsen]

Once you have the new disks installed, your best best is to reinstall VortexBox from the 1.7 iso.


You'll want to set it up so that the root Logical Volume is on the 40 GB drive, and the /storage Logical Volume is on the 2x2 TB drives.

[properjob70]

My plan was (if possible) to image what's on the 40GB (IDE) disk to one of the large new ones on a caddy attached to my laptop, then put the two big SATA disks inside the case and ditch the 40GB one altogether.




Although there's not much data in terms of cd/dvd rips on it there was a fair amount of customisation to squeezebox server plus getting the eth0 issues sorted out was a fair old pain in the butt (without your able assistance I wouldn't have even been able to do it!) so I'd be keen to avoid a repeat of that if at all possible…

[Ron Olsen]

Ditching the 40 GB drive is fine, but if you don't reinstall, you'll have to figure out a way to redefine the /storage Logical Volume to include the second 2 TB drive. I don't know very much about Logical Volume setup, so I can't help you with this.


Perhaps someone in the Fedora Forum will be able to help you do what you want:


http://www.fedoraforum.org/ I suggest posting your questions there.


You can also save your SqueezeBox Server prefs; they're in /var/lib/squeezeboxserver/prefs.


Also save your networking configuration files:


/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0


has your eth0 network configuration.


You could restore these (along with your ripped CDs) after a clean install.

[properjob70]

OK, sounds like a clean install would be less fraught with problems.




But, being a CLI numpty, how do you save and restore the prefs and config files?




Grab them over the network, save to my windows pc and restore via Putty?

[Ron Olsen]

Copy them to /storage, where they will be visible on the Windows "files" share:





cp /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 /storage


cp -r /var/lib/squeezeboxserver/prefs /storage


The ifcfg-eth0 file and /prefs directory will now be visible on your Windows "files" share. Copy them to a location on your Windows machine for safekeeping until you need to restore them after the clean install.

[properjob70]

Ron Olsen said:

Copy them to /storage, where they will be visible on the Windows "files" share:





cp /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 /storage


cp -r /var/lib/squeezeboxserver/prefs /storage


The ifcfg-eth0 file and /prefs directory will now be visible on your Windows "files" share. Copy them to a location on your Windows machine for safekeeping until you need to restore them after the clean install.




Thanks, got em backed up on my windows laptop now.

[properjob70]

So how do you restore the config files back to the system then?




My guess:




cp /storage/ifcfg-eth0 /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts


cp -r /storage/prefs /var/lib/squeezeboxserver

[Ron Olsen]

properjob70 said:

So how do you restore the config files back to the system then?


My guess:


cp /storage/ifcfg-eth0 /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts


cp -r /storage/prefs /var/lib/squeezeboxserver




Good guess! Of course, after a clean install, you'll have to copy ifcfg-eth0 and prefs from your safekeeping place on your PC back to the "files" share before you do the copies. Once you've restored the config files, you can delete the copies in /storage by



rm /storage/ifcfg-eth0


rm -rf /storage/prefs


or you can delete them from the "files" share on the Windows side.