Friday, December 25, 2009

Christmas 2009 Projects

  1. Our iMac is running slow because the hard drive full. TimeMachine has grinded into a halt due to lack of backup drive space. It is high time to install a NAS, which I did between thanksgiving and Christmas. After research, I bought Synology DS209 NAS with a 1GB WD green SATA drive. I have setup File station (http://soulzeng.homeunix.com:7000), iTunes share server, photo station (http://soulzeng.homeunix.com:7000) and wed server with it. So far, so good.
  2. My second project is to upgrade my home linux laptop running Fedora9. It's about 2 years old. So I upraded it to Fedora 10. Tried "preupgrade" GUI tool, but failed. Ended up using yum and command line upgrade, following RedHat instructions. It was painless.
  3. My third project is the real deal: install Virtual Machine to run Ubuntu and Windows 7 on this PC. So I followed the instruction on how to install virtualbox on fedora 10 on http://www.derekhildreth.com