Home DIY NAS box

[MarkW7]

Hey,

I am looking into building a home NAS box.

I have already tried FreeNAS but couldn't get it to work, it was temperamental at boot and when it did, it wouldn't install to harddrive.

So, i'm after an alternative - I'll be using a 40GB IDE drive to have the NAS distro on and a 1TB SATA to hold my actual files.

The system will be used as a backup every few weeks, it needs to be accessible in Windows and Linux.

Also a print server function would be nice.

I have Linux experience so that isn't a problem.

Any ideas / past experience?

Mark.

 

[MarkW7]

The thing with gonig a debian route, is there documentation on how to get everything working?

FreeNAS was very temperamental, sometimes it hung on boot, and when it did boot it wouldn't install.

Isn't there other distro build just for a NAS?