I wanted to report that I was able to install the setup which nyc_paramedic has suggested. If I was a Linux geek, this would not be anything to talk about. But the fact is, I was and still am a Linux beginner (although I learned already a lot during this installation process). So, I can...

Wow, great help again. It would take me years without your help. I will apply all your suggestions. I already tried to reconfigure locales as you told me but the following message appeared : ---------- voyage:~# dpkg-reconfigure locales perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl...

Quote: Originally Posted by nyc_paramedic SSH has two parts: the client and the server. Yes, I know. Quote: You only need to install ssh server on the debian pc to allow remote logins to the desktop pc. Please change RootLogin back to "no"; that is a *big* security risk...

Quote: Originally Posted by nyc_paramedic Yes. Set a static IP for your Alix as well. This will make things easier. And the default password for the Alix server will be "voyage". (no quotes) There must be some problem. I installed openssh-server on the debian pc. I made...

Quote: Originally Posted by nyc_paramedic OK, this all depends on your router. Is there a section where DHCP leases are listed? That is, most routers will assign an IP to a new atatched device from a specific pool of numbers, e.g., 192.168.1.10, then 192.168.1.11, etc. Once you know...

Ok, thanks. Now I am a bit lost. I put the CF-card in the Alix board and connected the power cord. I tried to "see" the Alix via the router to get/fix its IP address, but it didn't appear there. The left LED of the Alix board was blinking. I should do some configuration now, but don't know...

Quote: Originally Posted by nyc_paramedic Try the command: apt-get install rsync Thanks ! This was it. Although, I still get an alert, but the copy seems to have succeeded. The message I receive is the following. Do I have to modify something (language settings) in the...

I started installing Voyage Linux, but I'm not able to copy the files to the CF-card. After stage 6 of the installation process I get the following error message : "sh: line 81: rsync: command not found Fatal Error: Failed to copy files!" You can have a look here where I wrote down what I...

Quote: Originally Posted by nyc_paramedic A hint: if you would like to use GRUB as your boot loader and have a compact flash card bigger than 1GB, you have to partition to a smaller 512MB size. With LILO one can proceed with a bigger compact flash. For an MPD server you will not be...

Cool ! Thanks for your answer. I will now start configuring the whole setup. By the way, I put some photos of the Alix board here.

I received the Alix board. It's a nice little black box. Concerning Voyage Linux, which version did you use, the latest stable version (0.5.2) or the latest development version (0.6.1) ? You wrote in your first post that the Voyage Linux developers prepared for you a kernel compiled with...

Thanks. As soon as I receive the Alix board I will start trying to configure it. I might then ask you some more questions...

This is indeed a much nicer solution. Thanks for the hint. I had already ordered the other board but I could change my order for the 2d2.

As I wrote in my last post, I started a blog where I will explain how I install nyc_paramedic's setup. It's here : Cheap silent USB Linux music server Feel free to comment and any help is welcome of course

I started playing with mpd and was able to configure everything. I have the mpd daemon and the music library on a Debian Linux machine and some mpd clients on the same computer but also some on a OSX machine. Everything works well. So, now I would like to try to configure your setup solution...

Quote: Originally Posted by nyc_paramedic Where do you suggest I post this HOWTO? Here? Audiocircle? A child board in Audiocirlce's Discless section? Is the Computer Audiophile a popular site? I think head-fi.org and audiocircle.com are popular sites, so posting it on their...

Quote: Originally Posted by nyc_paramedic ... After I set up Voyage Linux on a 512MB partition on a spare CF card, installed the kernel and ALSA debs, apt-getted the MPD and ALSA packages, and set up my bedroom desktop to export my music files via NFS, I was up and running. ...