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Is there an up-to-date easy to follow guide on configuring MiSTer to get it's ROM from a NAS?

Most articles I found online are for those running RetroNAS.

Is there anything for those using Qnap or Synology NAS?

And would a 16GB SD card be sufficient since the ROMs are no longer stored locally?

Thanks!

Documentation (if that) is here for SMB: https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Scripts ... s_mount.sh

Or here for NFS: https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Scripts ... s_mount.sh

For NFS there's more docs here:
https://code.area536.com/Public/misternfs

To expand a bit on Asteld's reply, using MiSTer with a NAS is not documented as such. On your NAS you can share part of your storage over either the CIFS/SMB protocol or NFS. Using those shared bits of storage is documented on the links given.

If you haven't got a preference for one of the protocols I'd pick CIFS for now. A 16GB SD card would be more than enough if you don't store the contents of /media/fat/games on the card.

Bas wrote: ↑Mon Aug 05, 2024 2:32 pm

For NFS there's more docs here:
https://code.area536.com/Public/misternfs

To expand a bit on Asteld's reply, using MiSTer with a NAS is not documented as such. On your NAS you can share part of your storage over either the CIFS/SMB protocol or NFS. Using those shared bits of storage is documented on the links given.

If you haven't got a preference for one of the protocols I'd pick CIFS for now. A 16GB SD card would be more than enough if you don't store the contents of /media/fat/games on the card.

Thanks! I'll build it in one of my spare 16GB cards to muck around with it.

Got it working.

It's as simple as downloading cifs_mount.sh from https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Scripts ... s_mount.sh, editing this SH script according to NAS settings and shares, and then running it in the MiSTer!

This is also nice if you have multiple MisTer boxes in your setup. They can all use the same roms on the NAS and have vastly different settings/configs. I use the CIFS mount script with my SYnology NAS box and it works amazing.