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* Edward Adame <[email protected]> [2012-09-07 20:51]: > Hello, Martin… thanks very much for all the useful information on your site > regarding Debian on Qnap. I'm interested in doing the same thing with my > Synology NAS and it doesn't seem like anyone has done this before. I'm > fairly sure I can create a firmware file that the NAS will accept and write > to disk, however, I have no idea what would happen next if I use your kernel > image and initrd… > > It seems to me that the hardware on the DS-209 is very similar (nearly > identical) to the Qnap TS-21x devices with the exception that it only has 256 > MB RAM. Debian Squeeze seems to support this, but I'm not sure what Qnap > specific tweaks may be in your installer than would leave me dead in my > tracks. If I could get to a root shell I'm sure I could take it from there > but… I'm a little leery of trying this without at least reaching out to you. > > First… are you aware of anyone trying something this stupid?? :-) Second, > any words of advice before I put the hardware at risk? If I brick it, so be > it… but like I said, I'd like this to be a success because I'm sure there are > many others that would like to do the same… > > Thanks in advance, > Ed Adame -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
