Current plans are use an iPod Mini’s Hatachi 4GB Microdrive as the disk for a full install. New heatsink, 512MB RAM update, and making it quieter. I hope to do plenty of worthwhile modifications to this Firebox and share the experience.

Things learned thus far:

• A 1.2GHz Celeron left inside the Firebox with no working HSF will burn up. Really. Completely fry. Luckily the motherboard is fine and it boots with a PIII. New 1.4GHz Celeron on its way for $9. Probably would have updated this anyways.
• Don’t assume generic RAM you buy for the Firebox off Amazon is a double sided DIMM and will work in the Firebox (Non-Double Sided 512MB sticks show up as 256MB). I hope to make a list of high avaibilty sticks that work.
• The HSF on the firebox is crap, get a new heatsink and fan and also a fan speed controller. Even had my fan worked I would have gotten a new one, way too loud for such poor cooling.
• The rackmount ears hold the cover on the case also. Can’t keep them on for looks if you plan on opening the Firebox up often until you’re ready to put it into production.
• Physwritedisk doesn’t want to work on any Vista/7/Server2008 (32bit or 64bit) for me. I used Ubuntu. Worked like a charm.
• Make sure you’re using a Null Modem serial cable. You’ll kick yourself for assuming something else is wrong and wasting time.

Assuming you already own the domain name, you will need to go to the domains’ DNS settings and add an “A Record” with a Name value of the sub domain (game.zsnnet.org), and a Value of the IP address of the game server you want to point to.

Each webhost or domain provider will be different, some of you will need to contact them to add the DNS record, others (like Dreamhost) allow you to configure your own Custom DNS. Search their support or help areas to see how to configure it correctly for your providers system.