chroot'ed Debian Squeeze on Readynas

tiranor wrote:

As i understand it, all the basic stuff of the nas would run on radiatior, and all tweaking would run on debian squeeze, installed on /c/, which would work like any debian squeeze distribution. If the tweakings with debian squeeze brick, you still have your original installation available (with its frontview), and can restore your nas, without a factory default (when os reinstall doesn't work). Am i right ? It seem interesting. So, questions : -How much ressources would it use (i guess a dual core atom, with upgraded RAM is the minimum) ? -Would there be a gui ? Access via VNC available ?

I use winscp and putty to ssh into the box, that is required to do all this, so no, there's no gui.
The amount of resources will depend upon how much you run in the chroot...

KydDynoMyte wrote:

Just a quick thought. This is kind of how Ubuntu runs on my Android phone, chroot'ed on the phone and then you can vnc into x right from Android. Think we could start x server on the NAS and vnc into it? I assume not without graphics hardware on the NAS, so think it would be possible by adding a USB video card to the NAS? Also do you think it'd be possible to resize the main partition and add a swap partition, or an external swap partition, and it be used?

I don't get why you want to do that, just get a mini htpc dedicated to play video etc.. Then run everything headless on the nas, accessible maybe in the browser, depending on what you have installed of course.

As an example, i intend to run sabnzbd, sickbeard, couchpotato and headphones in the chroot, all of them which are accessible through the web browser. 8)

This requires that you have a little bit knowledge in using debian/ubuntu, apt and so forth. :)