Re: What current NAS platform is recommended for installing Debian?

Excellent news. Need to consider a replacement for my current box when armel reaches end of life. (Skickat från min telefon == Sent from my phone) On Dec 3, 2016 20:51, "Romain Francoise" <rfranco...@debian.org> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 03, 2016 at 07:49:40PM +0100, Björn Wetter

Re: What current NAS platform is recommended for installing Debian?

Does the Debian installer work on the Intel Qnaps? (Skickat från min telefon == Sent from my phone) On Dec 3, 2016 6:33 PM, "Romain Francoise" wrote: > On Sat, Dec 03, 2016 at 04:53:23PM +0100, Victor Hooi wrote: > > However, I'm curious - what platforms or units do

Re: How to instaal empty hdd debian for seagate personal cloud

See http://lmgtfy.com/?q=seagate+personal+cloud+debian On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 8:35 AM, Mikronet Bilgi İşlem < mikronetbilgiis...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > My seagate personal cloud hdd was died. > I want to install debian but i don't now how to install emty hdd > please help me, thanks. >

Re: Summary of the ARM ports BoF at DC15

On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 5:58 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Summary: if people care about armel for Stretch, they should make > noise NOW and convince people it's needed and can/should be supported > in future. > I'd hate to see my two QNAP NAS:es unsupported. Setting them up

Re: Latest Debian for Sheevaplug?

You should start at http://cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/sheevaplug/ I think you'll find everything you need there. (Skickat från min telefon == Sent from my phone) On Mar 25, 2015 5:50 PM, Gilles codecompl...@free.fr wrote: Hello I'm no expert and would like to upgrade a Sheevaplug to the

Re: QNAP 219 P II, Luks, Debian

On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 12:09 AM, peng li...@f2f10.com wrote: So, here's my test. 1. Sole relying U-boot/kernel/initramd, with /root on hard disk, I can enter passphrase for luks (for /root), but will land in shell and complain lacking of /dev/ram. 2. Creating a seperate /boot either on

Re: QNAP 219 P II, Luks, Debian

On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 8:17 PM, peng li...@f2f10.com wrote: Hi All, I followed http://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/qnap/ts-219/ and converted my NAS to Debian. I tried the following, 1. raid0 (1G) as swap(encrypted as well with random key) and raid1 (rest of 2x1T); luks on raid1; lvm on

Re: Encrytion on a QNAP

On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 7:56 PM, Ian Campbell i...@hellion.org.uk wrote: On Tue, 2014-06-24 at 17:18 +0200, Lee Williams wrote: Lee, are you on the list or should we continue to cc? Hello, since I have to reinstall my NAS on a new HDD, I thought it would be a good idea to set up

Re: Information needed from owners/users of Debian on ARM/kirkwood base QNAP devices (should take 1min to gather)

On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 9:49 AM, Ian Campbell i...@hellion.org.uk wrote: Hello, TL;DR: Please run the attached kirkwood-qnap script on your ARM based QNAP systems as ./kirkwood-qnap --info and report the results in this thread along with the model/kind of your QNAP device (as precisely as

Re: Dropping armel/ixp4xx

On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 3:02 AM, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: The ixp4xx kernel is now too big to fit in the flash partitions: https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=linuxarch=armelver=3.14-1~exp1stamp=1397151242 I intend to disable this flavour for the next upload of

Re: U-Boot on QNAP TS-421

On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Gordan Bobic gor...@bobich.net wrote: TS-421 doesn't save it's u-boot variables on NAND. As far as I can tell, they are always saved on a virtual MTD partition (mtdblock4) in RAM, and overwritten on every boot with the presets hard-coded in the u-boot binary

Re: Unable to boot QNAP TS-119 since update on 12 Nov

I can make my ts 119 kernel image available for download. Would that help? It's wheezy. (Skickat från min telefon == Sent from my phone) On Nov 15, 2013 6:25 PM, Martin Michlmayr t...@cyrius.com wrote: * Felix Andreas Braun felix.br...@mail.mcgill.ca [2013-11-15 16:39]: I was following debian

Re: Removing lvm and crypto from rootfs

Are you sure flash-kernel got called by update-initramfs (it should on wheezy). How did you configure u-boot? Maybe you're passing a root parameter via u-boot. Yeah, I checked all that. After trying *really* hard to figure out how the initramfs hooks for lvm2 and cryptsetup work I ended

Removing lvm and crypto from rootfs

Hello list! I'm having an issue with my sheevaplug. Previously it booted off an encrypted lvm. I have now rsynced the entire rootfs to a standard partition on a usb stick and I am trying to get it to boot. My strategy is to update the initramfs from a chroot, inspired by this:

Re: Debian on QNAP 419P II

set, I don't know why. I ended up using 'fatload' instead (inspired by http://cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/sheevaplug/install/), which is easier and faster IMO. /Björn On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Martin Michlmayr t...@cyrius.com wrote: * Björn Wetterbom bj...@wetterbom.se [2013-10-17 15:16

Debian on QNAP 419P II

Would I have any problems installing Debian on said device? It's not specifically mentioned on cyrius.com as far as I can tell. I've done several installs before and know how to use serial. /B

Re: Debian on QNAP 419P II

. /B On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Ian Campbell i...@hellion.org.uk wrote: On Thu, 2013-10-17 at 14:40 +0200, Björn Wetterbom wrote: Would I have any problems installing Debian on said device? It's not specifically mentioned on cyrius.com as far as I can tell. The information at http

Re: Sheevaplug hangs after u-boot upgrade

The same happened to me. See my pasted mail to Martin below. B --- Hi Martin! I recently upgraded u-boot according to http://cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/sheevaplug/uboot-upgrade/, which went smoothly. But after the install the plug would not boot beyond uncompressing the kernel. Eventually I

Re: Will it work for QNAP 420?

I can't imagine that would be a problem. I'm running samba + raid1 on a 5-year-old (ish) ts-209 without any problems. It's got a 500 MHz CPU iirc. My only issue is that I only get about 1 MB/s throughput on a Gbit LAN. But I haven't yet had the time to isolate the issue, so I'm not sure the

Re: Will it work for QNAP 420?

Having the root file system on a usb flash drive will work fine. I would advice you to get two identical sticks and dd the data from your installed stick to a backup stick once installation is finished. Usb sticks tend to wear over time. They last 2-3 years for me. /B On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at

Re: Dropping support for the smallest armel machines

Dropping support for nslu2 is fine with me. As noted above, I can continue running it with an older kernel and be equally happy. Or I could retire it and get (another) rpi. What would be (a little) worse for me though is dropping orion5 support. I rely on security updates for my ts-209. OTOH, by

Re: Installing ftp Server on debian slug

Silly question perhaps, but are you root? (Skickat från min telefon == Sent from my phone) On Mar 25, 2013 6:27 PM, Tobias Wagner broadwa...@live.de wrote: Hi all, for access to log files and creating backups I`d like to install ftp server on my nslu2. It is set up as advised on cyrius.com

Re: Plug computer with two eth

http://www.newit.co.uk/ doesn't seem to have it right now, but since they carry other Globalscape products (and have done for years), the Mirabox will likely turn up there. /B On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Mike Howard m...@dewberryfields.co.ukwrote: On 03/03/2013 16:43, DrEagle wrote: Le

Re: Flash-Kernel, IPv6 and Kirkwood CPU

Have you tried running flash-kernel as root and then rebooting, as suggested by http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.kernel/82575? (Found by googling the error message) /B (Skickat från min platta == Sent from my tablet) On Dec 2, 2012 2:36 PM, Rash r.kra...@tu-bs.de wrote: Hi,

Re: arm, both disk able to boot (raid1)

I have a raid1 setup on my ts-209 (from the original install). See my fstab below. If your raid1 setup is done, just update your fstab and run update-initramfs -u flash-kernel to update the initramfs with the new fstab and install the initramfs to flash. I'd advice you to have a serial console

Re: arm, both disk able to boot (raid1)

http://www.cyrius.com/debian/orion/qnap/ts-209/ On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 11:46 AM, rosea.grammostola rosea.grammost...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/10/2012 11:07 AM, Björn Wetterbom wrote: I have a raid1 setup on my ts-209 (from the original install). See my fstab below. If your raid1 setup

Re: arm, both disk able to boot (raid1)

That's the one. /B On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 12:59 PM, rosea.grammostola rosea.grammost...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/10/2012 12:26 PM, Björn Wetterbom wrote: http://www.cyrius.com/debian/**orion/qnap/ts-209/http://www.cyrius.com/debian/orion/qnap/ts-209/ Thx. Hmm ok so I need this hardware

Re: Debian qnap 109 - qnap 209

Well, you could try to install the ramdisk to flash using the Debian installer. See http://www.cyrius.com/journal/debian/installer-flash-kernel. Since the 109 and the 209 are very similar, it might work (they have the same machine architecture). I'm not sure if update-initramfs -u will flash, so

Re: Debian qnap 109 - qnap 209

Thx for your reply. First I'm wondering how I start the debian-installer having the unbootable 109 disk in the 209. Unfortunately I installed debian already on the qnap 209. I can boot that install with also the 109 drive in it, but how do I launch the d-i then? And how do I make sure the

Re: Help needed after updating Debian on QNAP TS-109 Pro II

? Juha On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 11:03 PM, Björn Wetterbom bjohv...@gmail.comwrote: Wait! You must also run flash-kernel as root to move the initramfs to flash. Sorry I missed that. B (Sent from my phone.) On Sep 22, 2012 9:57 PM, Björn Wetterbom bjohv...@gmail.com wrote: You should have

Re: Help needed after updating Debian on QNAP TS-109 Pro II

You should have no problems. The part about boot loader is because grub or lilo can't be found. That's normal since you boot from flash. Run update-initramfs -u as root before reboot and you will be fine. I'm not sure it's needed nowadays, but it certainly won't cause any harm. Björn (Sent from

Re: Help needed after updating Debian on QNAP TS-109 Pro II

Wait! You must also run flash-kernel as root to move the initramfs to flash. Sorry I missed that. B (Sent from my phone.) On Sep 22, 2012 9:57 PM, Björn Wetterbom bjohv...@gmail.com wrote: You should have no problems. The part about boot loader is because grub or lilo can't be found. That's

RE: Running on usb flash

Could be a file system check. Leave it alone over night and see what happens. I can't see anything wrong with your fstab. If it's not fsck, you may need a serial console. B Sent from my nexus 7 On Sep 2, 2012 4:57 PM, Brian Platt brianpl...@hotmail.com wrote: Did I make a mistake on the below

Re: Running on usb flash

I've run several devices from usb flash for years and have always followed the advice of Martin Michlmayr to use -noatime. Through the years I've had a few crashes, but they have consistently been on cheap usb devices. My advice is to use noatime and sandisk memory, other measures give little in

Re: QNap Hard drive upgrade (Boot Sequence)

that is preventing uboot or the kernel from finding what it needs? I have enabled boot logging, but a boot log was not created. Presumably this means that the boot process failed before it could mount /var Can you suggest anything else I might try? Thanks. On 27/05/2012 20:58, Björn

Re: QNap Hard drive upgrade (Boot Sequence)

Update: point 1 below should be the correct answer. A background is at http://forum.qnap.com/viewtopic.php?f=147t=58300 . Please report back. /B On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 9:11 AM, Björn Wetterbom bjohv...@gmail.com wrote: 1. Try changing the UUIDs on the new disk to match those of the old

Re: QNap Hard drive upgrade (Boot Sequence)

Don't worry, just run rsync -aHX (iirc) from the old disk to the new and update fstab with new UUIDs and it will work. I've done it on several occasions. The kernel is stored in flash memory (if you watch kernel updates, they are always finalized with flash-kernel), so the mbr of the disk is not

Re: Support for the D-Link DNS-320?

I don't know about the DNS-320, but I would heartily recommend the QNAP products, preferrably the ones with official Debian support via www.cyrius.com. I'm running two older Qnaps as servers 24/7 with excellent track record. /Björn 2012/2/20 Rogério Brito rbr...@ime.usp.br Hi, people. I

Re: Choose kernel in NSLU2

I want to know: a) how can I choose that other linux version boots my system: dpkg-reconfigure what? I believe you want to run flash-kernel to put your desired kernel in flash. Try 'man flash-kernel' as root. b) can I follow the general howto to build my own kernel and make dpkg -i

nslu2 does not start - hw error

When pressing the power button on my nslu2 I can hear a click inside the device and the power button lights up briefly. Then it's dead again. After repeating this several times (up to, say, 20 times), the device starts. When it's running I can issue a reboot command without problems. I have tried

Re: QNAP TS-110: how to replace HDD?

What's the output on the serial console? I probably won't be any better than you interpreting it, but perhaps someone else will. On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 17:45, Hardy Griech nt...@mardys.de wrote: On 20.04.2011 10:27, Björn Wetterbom wrote: : You are correct, if you update UUIDs in /etc/fstab

Re: QNAP TS-110: how to replace HDD?

-- Snip --- - how to actually replace the HDD? Since you have the same disk layouts, I would rsync the data from the old to the new disk. Then update /etc/fstab with the UUIDs of the new disk. After that you're good to go. - how to start the Debian installer? With a serial console, use tftp:

Re: Re: QNAP TS-110: how to replace HDD?

Yes, the installer can be flashed from the command line. See http://forum.qnap.com/viewtopic.php?f=147t=37149p=164507sid=dee8c64d1a8772fc2325acbebe529079 Disclamer: I don't know if the mentioned commands are valid for TS-110. You are correct, if you update UUIDs in /etc/fstab, a

Re: Suggestions for a SheevaPlug replacement

Or the TS-119, which is fanless. /B On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 15:44, KaruppuSwamy T karuppusw...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, I suggest QNAP TS-110, which takes just 5W power. I am very much happy with this home server, powered by Debian Squeeze. It fits well with arm branch of Debian.

Re: Using nslu2 as remote console

Thank you for your input. Special thanks to Daniel who made me think a little about kernel and bootloader output to the console. I was planning on using the onboard serial, but my solution will now include one of these: http://www.ftdichip.com/Products/Cables/USBTTLSerial.htm I have used it

Re: Reports of successful Squeeze upgrades

Yup, that's it. On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 09:51, John Winters j...@sinodun.org.uk wrote: On 23/02/11 18:42, Martin Michlmayr wrote: [snip] I upgraded a NSLU2 to squeeze yesterday without any problems but the system was a base system of lenny without any additional software installed. It

Reports of successful Squeeze upgrades

Following the recent conversations regarding upgrade problems I would appreciate some success stories before I attempt the upgrade on my (production) machines. Anyone willing to share? Please state your device type as well (I run an NSLU2 and a TS-209 with Lenny). Thanks Björn

Re: flashing fails due to size issue during upgrade

So what's the bottom line of this for the average user? Should I take any precautionary measures before upgrading my slug to Squeeze (I will of course follow the instructions in the release notes)? Is it clear why Jeffrey's ramdisk didn't fit in the flash? Regards Björn On Feb 21, 2011 8:39 PM,

Re: SD not detected when installing to sheevaplug

Try re-downloading the installer, that solved the modules problem for me. On Jul 17, 2010 4:55 PM, Carles Pagès bona...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to install debian lenny to a sheeva plug following the instructions on Martin's page. When the installer finishes the hardware detection, I get an

Re: John Holland's eSATA support for the Sheevaplug

I just aked on IRC and was told that the latest blocker was #572618, which was fixed in the kernel upload done yesterday.  So hopefully the kernel will move to squeeze soon and then we can update the installer. Can you please announce on the list when this happens. I'm considering an

Re: Managed to brick my sheevaplug -- not getting any serial output

I threw my cable away months ago after big problems with it disconnecting serial access. Now I just use any mini-USB cable lying around. On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 09:18, Shiva Bhattacharjee shiva...@gmail.com wrote: Is it necessary for me to use the same mini-usb cable that came with the

Re: Managed to brick my sheevaplug -- not getting any serial output

Newer kernels don't use /dev/ttyUSB0 for JTAG. It is used for serial access and no /dev/ttyUSB1 will appear. Check out http://www.openplug.org/plugwiki/index.php/Setting_Up_OpenOCD_Under_Linux On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:29, Lluís Batlle virik...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/3/11 Shiva Bhattacharjee

Re: Very newbe help/pointers required about building a distribution from scratch

Could Linux from scratch provide you with at least some of the information you need? http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 19:10, Jonathan Wilson piercing_m...@hotmail.com wrote: Ok I'm quite a newbe to both Linux and PC development, however I know what I want to do but

Re: Very newbe help/pointers required about building a distribution from scratch

Kenneth Casson Leighton l...@lkcl.net: 2010/3/10 Björn Wetterbom bjohv...@gmail.com: Could Linux from scratch provide you with at least some of the information you need?  is that available for debian?  does it rebuild _debian_ packages, entirely and recursively, recreating a debian mirror

Re: Alternative to using USB-Stick as mass storage on NSLU2

I've used a Freecom 2.5 drive for a couple of years with good results. USB powered of course. I've also used an external WD 3.5 drive which I am very pleased with, and since WD offers a wide variety of 2.5 drives at good prices I would go for one of those. /Björn On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at

News from GlobalScale Technologies

Have you guys seen the coming products from GST? (Announced Jan 24 according to the web site.) http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/c-4-guruplugs.aspx Incredible what they can pack into these things, the new plugs look sooo cool. The only thing I can't figure out is the configuration of the

Re: Need help to boot debian on USB with more devices connected

Isn't this a well known issue with usb-booted devices? See e.g. http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/Debian/TroubleShooting (section The slug fails to reboot with 2 drives connected). I guess you have already figured out that you can boot by detaching all devices except the boot disk. Will it perhaps

Re: QNAP TS 209 software RAID?

I have run hardware raid in the past, and have heard opinions from several others. To make a long story short, software raid is now the only way I go. I believe the TS-209 does not support hardware raid. I run software raid 1 on mine with an excellent track record. On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 16:56,

Sheevaplug late? - Call them!

Seems to me that several people have reported a speedy delivery of their sheevaplug after calling Globalscale. Yesterday the same thing happened to me. When calling (+1-714-632-9239), I was told that expected delivery was a week or more away, which would have meant a total delivery time of more

Re: [SheevaPlug] Order not received

Well, I ordered mine on the 30th of March and I'm still waiting for any word on when delivery will be. The only clue is given at http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/c-2-globalscale-technologies-products.aspx It would be nice if any list member that receives a plug could announce this on the

Re: Regarding Kirkwood cpu support

I'd love to help out to the best of my abilities. Please tell me how. 2009/3/25 Wouter Verhelst wou...@debian.org: On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 04:56:37PM +0100, Björn Wetterbom wrote: What kind of time frames are we talking about when it comes to Debian support for Kirkwood for us ordinary users

Re: Regarding Kirkwood cpu support

What kind of time frames are we talking about when it comes to Debian support for Kirkwood for us ordinary users who don't compile our own kernels and want our machine to start every day, every time? Will initial support consist of install packages from Martin or others, and official Debian

Regarding Kirkwood cpu support

I just joined the list and sifted through a couple of months of the archive. With regards to Martin Michlmayr starting up work on Kirkwood support ( http://lists.debian.org/debian-arm/2009/02/msg00057.html) I wanted to share a link concerning a Kirkwood application: