Comments on: Power Mac G4 reloaded http://www.mechriki.de/wordpress/?p=8 This is where I talk about stuff Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:13:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Scott Fraser http://www.mechriki.de/wordpress/?p=8&cpage=1#comment-13083 Scott Fraser Tue, 20 Nov 2007 06:06:29 +0000 http://www.mechriki.de/wordpress/?p=8#comment-13083 Hi Martin, hanks for the post. I have been trying to figure out how to take my very old G4 and turn it into a NAS box. I was going to try and put OpenFiler or some other open-source NAS stack on it, but was having trouble finding something that supports the G4 CPU. Then I found your post and it suddenly occurred to me... of course! I could just keep OS X on there! However, I am not sure if I can get Leopard/Time-Machine to work with this - apparently you can enable unsupported shares and AFP as well as SMB may work. My original idea was to get OpenFiler running on it and use it as an iSCSI backend, but it looks like OpenFiler is more focused on x86. Thanks for the inspiration. -Scott Hi Martin, hanks for the post. I have been trying to figure out how to take my very old G4 and turn it into a NAS box. I was going to try and put OpenFiler or some other open-source NAS stack on it, but was having trouble finding something that supports the G4 CPU. Then I found your post and it suddenly occurred to me… of course! I could just keep OS X on there! However, I am not sure if I can get Leopard/Time-Machine to work with this – apparently you can enable unsupported shares and AFP as well as SMB may work.

My original idea was to get OpenFiler running on it and use it as an iSCSI backend, but it looks like OpenFiler is more focused on x86.

Thanks for the inspiration.

-Scott

]]> By: Andrew http://www.mechriki.de/wordpress/?p=8&cpage=1#comment-1120 Andrew Fri, 03 Aug 2007 06:12:40 +0000 http://www.mechriki.de/wordpress/?p=8#comment-1120 Very nice article. cool what one can still do with this old piece of hardware. Very nice article. cool what one can still do with this old piece of hardware.

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