#Install minicom ubuntu install
You can then also boot from a USB drive and install your operating system of choice.
#Install minicom ubuntu serial
The solutionĪfter a bit of reading on the web I found out that you can use a serial console port on the back of the unit to get a KVM connection, so you can get a keyboard and a screen connected. Also, it’s always bugged me that the WiFi is bridged into my home network – so just for some added security and safety I was going to separate the house into 2 networks using the 2x1GigE nics in the NAS, only to learn that the unit can’t do NAT! There is no support for it in the kernel and I was surely not going to compile a kernel on this unit without the ability to fix things that may break. I now share the house with non-nerds who probably should be on a separate network to me. The straw that broke the camel’s back was when I moved into my new house. Friends around me started buying things like the HP ProLiant N54L MicroServer which hangs in the same price range but totally wins in every category when compared to my ReadyNAS. I was always hoping for an easy way to install OpenVPN on it – after all, my unit is an x86 box running Linux how hard can it be?! Turns out it ain’t easy – not that I tried 🙂 I read up on it and gave up before starting. I also installed transmission which made the unit that little bit more useful. That meant I could install dnsmasq and define some hosts in /etc/ethers and /etc/hosts so dhcp and DNS was sorted.
It really helped to install the root extension and be able ssh into the unit. But I’m a nerd! So naturally over time I want to play with things and get more out of the unit than the manufacturer wanted to give me. Many, many moons ago I bought myself a Netgear ReadyNAS – a small 2 bay unit for not much money and at first I was very happy with it. This blog post talks about installing Ubuntu 14.04 server on my Netgear ReadyNAS.
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