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ZBOX mini PCs for Home Edition

cryptochrome

Hi,

has anyone here ever tried the ZBOX mini PCs for the home edition? They have a few quite powerful models with two LAN ports. They look tempting...

Thanks



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    I got a ZBox CI323nano and it works great.  My only trouble right now is that it only has two Ethernet ports and I'd like 3-4 to do some other things with wifi and DMZ networks.  I can get a mini pci-e Ethernet adapter but then I have to hack my case.  I wish XG supported USB 3.0 Ethernet adapters, that would make life so much easier!  In any case, I ran into the same ISO disk warning when trying to install XG on the ZBox.  To get around that I just re-flashed my install media in DD mode (Rufus told me the ISO was in dual format and I could pick the default or DD mode).  Default mode is what gave me the ISO disk warning, when I re-flashed my USB disk in DD mode, it worked perfectly.  

    One note to be nit-picky, the web interface for the XG feels much more sluggish when loading the dashboard page and status graph pages where its generating dynamic graphs.  The other pages load fairly well, but if you are used to the hardware appliance or virtualization the XG, you will notice a slow down when going to the ZBox.  

  • 0 in reply to JoeChurch

    The CI323 was officialy added with the MR3.

    For the NW-Ports. I use VLAN's for this case. It works as it should. Only requirement is a VLAN capable switch on the receiving end (this should be no problem today) and a bit of understanding of how to configure VLAN's. It is quite to do this and you won't need additional NW-Ports.

  • 0 in reply to cyberlu

    Unknown said:

    The CI323 was officialy added with the MR3.

    Where can we see which hardware was officially added?

  • 0 in reply to cryptochrome

    Well i only know this because of another thread where a user sent his device to Sophos and when they returned it they stated it was supported now. So i have no actual list, sorry

  • 0 in reply to cyberlu

    Ah ok, makes sense. Thank you!

  • 0 in reply to cryptochrome

    Hi guys,

    That was myself, it should be functional with MR3 but I've only confirmed it on v16 as they sent it back with v16 on ready to rock and roll.

    The issue was that when the XG is being installed/firstboot, it evaluates how much RAM is available by querying the BIOS then creates a Swap partition of the same size. But the Zotac BIOS for some reason was responding to the request with a size of RAM as 0 so a Swap partition was created with 0 Bytes and when it tries to boot up it hangs trying to activate a Swap that doesn't exist!

    Kudos to the guys in Germany who figured it out and I was happy to send in the box for them to fix up the XG so this problem doesn't happen again :)

    Emile

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  • 0 in reply to cryptochrome

    Hi guys,

    That was myself, it should be functional with MR3 but I've only confirmed it on v16 as they sent it back with v16 on ready to rock and roll.

    The issue was that when the XG is being installed/firstboot, it evaluates how much RAM is available by querying the BIOS then creates a Swap partition of the same size. But the Zotac BIOS for some reason was responding to the request with a size of RAM as 0 so a Swap partition was created with 0 Bytes and when it tries to boot up it hangs trying to activate a Swap that doesn't exist!

    Kudos to the guys in Germany who figured it out and I was happy to send in the box for them to fix up the XG so this problem doesn't happen again :)

    Emile

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