Fedora Server on Minix NEO Z64W

linux October 31, 2023

The Minix NEO Z64-W is intended to run Windows, but, since it has an Intel chipset, it runs Linux Server pretty well. Until a few days ago, I had a stable version of Ubuntu Server 20 LTS running there. A failed attempt to upgrade to Ubuntu LTS 22 brings me here.

The preparation process is straighforward:

• Download Fedora Server iso image
• Use Rufus to create bootable USB drive
• Disable Bit Execute on the BIOS to boot from the USB drive
• Next, Next, Next (be sue to enable root for ssh if you intend to use it headless)

Warning: dnf upgrade broke the whole installation, so I had to start over

Stuff I installed

dnf install nano samba git qbitorrent-nox pip3 nfs-utils

Mounting External USB Drives

• mkdir /media/external /media/backup
• mount /dev/sda1 /media/external
• mount /dev/sda2 /media/backup
• blkid /dev/sda1
• cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.backup
• nano /etc/fstab

  UUID=384A8DB912EAB6E6 /media/backup auto nosuid,nodev,nofail 0 0
  UUID=96A803ADA8038AC7 /media/external auto nosuid,nodev,nofail 0 0
  

NFS Configuration for everyone

• systemctl enable --now rpcbind nfs-server
• systemctl start nfs-server
• nano /etc/exports

  /media/external/transmission 192.168.1.0/24(rw,sync,insecure,all_squash,anonuid=0,anongid=0)
  /media/backup 192.168.1.0/24(rw,sync,insecure,all_squash,anonuid=0,anongid=0)
  

• exportfs -ra

Disable Firewall

• systemctl stop firewalld
• systemctl disable firewalld

Reloading USB after unplugging the extenal drive

Check disk ‘ sudo fdisk -l | grep sd ‘

List USB devices: ‘ lsblk -f ‘