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Comment on Building your own ‘Gira’ Homeserver by Marcus

Marcus — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:54:42 +0000

Is it really so hard to read the instructions that came with eeprom.exe or type eeprom -h?

From the eeprom.txt:
-km[#] mac-address write mac-address to #th NIC’s EEPROM MAC address field.

Comment on Building your own ‘Gira’ Homeserver by Freddy

Freddy — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:38:10 +0000

Hello,

How i can change the Mac with dos tools?
I have the an Epia ML600 and the programm ” eeprom.exe”

Where is the Syntax for ” eeprom.exe”

thanks

Comment on Building your own ‘Gira’ Homeserver by Roel

Roel — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:22:54 +0000

Hi guys, i just saw this website: http://www.g-homeserver.com, it has some interesting articles/topics.

See topics:
New (more)RAM: “Mehr RAM Speicher im Homeserver Net 2″
New (more) IDE Memory: “Neuer Flash IDE Speicher für den Gira Homeserver Net 2, Upgrade”
BIOS Password and USB-Keyboard: (Maybe also useful, if you want to use USB instead of RS-232; feature of Experte 2.4; not yet tested by myself): “Gira Homeserver BIOS Passwort löschen, USB Tatstatur”

Comment on Building your own ‘Gira’ Homeserver by girafan

girafan — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:18:23 +0000

Is there a way to “install” the original OS to hdc2 durable and not running from ISO CD or similar medium?
Whats the behaviour of OS and partitions in an orig. Homeserver (cant overwrite itself… if project uploaded and restarted)

Comment on Building your own ‘Gira’ Homeserver by cheesy

cheesy — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 19:59:53 +0000

Next question,

works Gira KNX/EIB-IP-Router with an selfmade homeserver 3. I’m searching for components for my house building.

Comment on Building your own ‘Gira’ Homeserver by cheesy

cheesy — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 15:57:56 +0000

@Marcus

Thanks for the tip. Can you tell me, are the firmware.dat files on the orginal server in the partition 4. I’m going to test it. Copy my files to partition 4.
My Hardware:
Via Epia Board 5000 (ebay 30 Euro :-)
Chance the mac with via dos tools.

I will report

Comment on Building your own ‘Gira’ Homeserver by Marcus

Marcus — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 15:14:13 +0000

hagbard, the original HS uses loadlin.exe and therefore DOS to boot the linux kernel, so I did the same. My aim is to replicate the original as close as possible to have maximum compatibility. I don’t really understand your comment.

Comment on Building your own ‘Gira’ Homeserver by hagbard

hagbard — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 14:45:24 +0000

@ Marcus … Why DOS ?? this way is extremly gay. Use Linux!

Comment on Building your own ‘Gira’ Homeserver by Marcus

Marcus — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 13:43:44 +0000

I got it running just on one single flash drive!

I noticed the HS changes only the first three partitions on the drive, so I created four primary partitions on the flash module and installed MS-DOS on the fourth partition. It won’t boot with the standard DOS MBR, so I used a boot manager (boot-us). Then I copied the contents of firmware.dat on the drive, renamed dolinux.bat to autoexec.bat and voila! The HS is booting, the first project transfer is done via serial and the DOS partition isn’t altered, so the HS still works after a reboot.

Next on the list is the ability to use the firmware update, I will keep you informed ;)

My hardware is a VIA Epia-M 600 MHz with a flashed MAC adress now, low power and fanless.

Comment on Building your own ‘Gira’ Homeserver by knx_weber

knx_weber — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 13:36:29 +0000

ok…solved my problem…hs dont run with n148. if somebody search for cheap and fanless hardware…search for wyse wt9450xe on ebay. runs and sometimes sells for under 20euro.