I reset the BIOS on the Bay trail machine and it now has Ubuntu 14.04 installed and sharing its wifi connection over ethernet. I tried Linux Mint Mate 17.1 but couldn't find a simple way to do it on that release of Linux.
This evening I have been playing Diablo II on the iBook.
I finally went east! Woohoo!
On another note one of my NAS drives is so old I can't find any documentation on it. It is one of those cheap IDE USB/Etheret drive enclosures. It has a 500GB drive limit, only supports FAT32 (no > 4GB files) and with Windows 7 and 8 you have to FTP into it - going to \\devicename doesn't work. It looks like it was put out by Speed Dragon, model FG-NAS1-A2. Their page has a link for drivers and docs but it goes to the product page. If anyone has one of these let me know how to set it up once it is reset.
If I can't set up this NAS I may buy either an IDE to SATA adapter or an IDE PCI Express x1 controller card and share the drive from the Ubuntu box. I would buy another NAS enclosure but they don't really sell IDE ones anymore.
This evening I have been playing Diablo II on the iBook.
I finally went east! Woohoo!On another note one of my NAS drives is so old I can't find any documentation on it. It is one of those cheap IDE USB/Etheret drive enclosures. It has a 500GB drive limit, only supports FAT32 (no > 4GB files) and with Windows 7 and 8 you have to FTP into it - going to \\devicename doesn't work. It looks like it was put out by Speed Dragon, model FG-NAS1-A2. Their page has a link for drivers and docs but it goes to the product page. If anyone has one of these let me know how to set it up once it is reset.
If I can't set up this NAS I may buy either an IDE to SATA adapter or an IDE PCI Express x1 controller card and share the drive from the Ubuntu box. I would buy another NAS enclosure but they don't really sell IDE ones anymore.