--- In LinkStation_General@yahoogroups.com, "rmn1644" <rmn1644@...>
wrote:
>
> Hey all,
>
> I have a 500gb Linkstation Pro, and would like to trade it to
someone with a Linkstation Live
> 500gb that would prefer a Pro.  Any takers?
>
> I have a Mac, and really want the ability to hold iTunes libraries
and the rest on my NAS.  I
> know there are some tricks to pull it off with the Pro, but frankly
don't want to fuss with
> something that is my backup device.
>
> Any takers, please contact me!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ryan
>

Just make your Pro to a Linkstation Live: update the firmware of your
LS Pro with the firmware for the LS Live (i used 2.06 downloaded from
the buffalo-site :)
Greetings
Bernhard

--- In LinkStation_General@yahoogroups.com, Christopher Eykamp
<chris@...> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I replaced the fan in LS1 (running Gentoo) and am experiencing a very
> vexing issue.  When the machine is disassembled, it runs just fine, for
> days on end, under heavy load, with no problems.  When I reassemble the
> machine, however, it will only run for a short period (10 seconds to 45
> minutes), and will almost always shut down under heavy load (bzipping
> mpeg files is particularly good at triggering shutdown ;-). After it
> shuts down, I must unplug it briefly, and let it sit for a little while
> before it will restart.  The shutdown is sudden and uncontrolled.  No
> logging, no nothing, just a sudden, instantaneous shutdown.
>
> This would seem to indicate a heat issue, though I'm not sure enough
> heat can build up in just 10 seconds to shut the machine down.  The new
> fan is rated at 5CFM, and is rated at half the power draw of the old
> one.  It seems to be running fine, both when assembled and when
> disassembled.  The hard drive never gets above 45 C (based on hddtemp).
>
> Any idea what is going on?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris
>


Can you specifically correlate the issue to heat?  As in other parts
of the system.   If you put the device near an A/C or other very cool
area, can you get longer life?

I'm not quite sure what the issue could be other than that.  There
isn't any loose wires or anything close to ungrounded metal is there?

--- In LinkStation_General@yahoogroups.com, "spietak" <spietak@...> wrote:
>
> I ran a backup from my linkstation 250 to the USB disk.  Once the
> backup was complete, I enabled the USB disk as a shared folder,
> disabled the backup settings, and rebooted everything.  According to
> the documentation, the USB disk should show up as a shared folder on
> the linkstation.  Unfortunately, this isn't working.  While the USB
> disk appears to have the correct amount of data on it as a result of
> the backup, I can't even get to the data in the event I wanted to
> restore it.  I had the same problem about a year ago and gave up on
> it.  However, I'm now determined to get this working properly.
>
> Any thoughts?
>

Which model do you have, the HD-H model should work fine in that
regard, depending on if you have the correct formatting.  I would
assume that due to the successful backup, that should not be a
problem.  EXT3 for the file system?

As for the LS-GL Pro model, its good to note that if the drive is
FAT32 that you can backup to it, but cannot share it with Buffalo's
firmware.  You will want to format the drive to EXT3 to get that
functionality.

regards,
goat

--- musikgoat <musikgoat@...> wrote:

> --- In LinkStation_General@yahoogroups.com,
> Christopher Eykamp
> <chris@...> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I replaced the fan in LS1 (running Gentoo) and am
> experiencing a very
> > vexing issue.  When the machine is disassembled,
> it runs just fine, for
> > days on end, under heavy load, with no problems.
> When I reassemble the
> > machine, however, it will only run for a short
> period (10 seconds to 45
> > minutes), and will almost always shut down under
> heavy load (bzipping
> > mpeg files is particularly good at triggering
> shutdown ;-). After it
> > shuts down, I must unplug it briefly, and let it
> sit for a little while
> > before it will restart.  The shutdown is sudden
> and uncontrolled.  No
> > logging, no nothing, just a sudden, instantaneous
> shutdown.
> >
> > This would seem to indicate a heat issue, though
> I'm not sure enough
> > heat can build up in just 10 seconds to shut the
> machine down.  The new
> > fan is rated at 5CFM, and is rated at half the
> power draw of the old
> > one.  It seems to be running fine, both when
> assembled and when
> > disassembled.  The hard drive never gets above 45
> C (based on hddtemp).
> >
> > Any idea what is going on?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Chris
> >
>
>
> Can you specifically correlate the issue to heat?
> As in other parts
> of the system.   If you put the device near an A/C
> or other very cool
> area, can you get longer life?
>
> I'm not quite sure what the issue could be other
> than that.  There
> isn't any loose wires or anything close to
> ungrounded metal is there?
>
>
Could the fan be installed so the airflow is in the
wrong direction?



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--- In LinkStation_General@yahoogroups.com, Christopher Eykamp
<chris@...> wrote:

> This would seem to indicate a heat issue, though I'm not sure enough
> heat can build up in just 10 seconds to shut the machine down.

That depends on if you let the unit completely cool off before
restarting it.  With a quick restart, the unit is probably still at an
elevated temperature and the heavy load of booting could quickly get
it past the limit.

I'm a little concerned why your unit would then be so sensitive to
overheating that the reduction to a 5CFM fan would cause a problem.
Did you install a new hard drive that runs hotter much hotter (and
takes more power from the power supply) than the old one.  My LS-1 had
a low-performing Samsung drive in it which ran quite cool and didn't
take much power.  I had to search around quite a bit to find a drive
that had comparable low heat and power requirements.  I finally ended
up with a single-platter 160-Gig Seagate.  Granted this wasn't much of
an upgrade over the 120-Gig Samsung, but I thought the Samsung was
getting tired after running for a few years.

I know people successfully put in bigger, more power consuming drives,
but I'm just being a long-term reliability nut with my LS.

It is also possible that since the your LS-1 is probably getting a
little old, the power supply might be getting weak as well, thus
starting to drop out of regulation under heavy load.  Perhaps you
could monitor the voltage, preferably with an oscilloscope, worse case
just replace the smaller sized (thus used at higher frequencies)
electrolytic capacitors in the power supply.  Make sure you use high
quality 105-degree(F) ones designed for switch-mode power supply
applications.

Finally, maybe it is a mechanical connection problem with your LS-1.
For example, maybe when assembled there is different stress on the
circuit board that could be causing a marginal solder connection to
fail slightly?

Good luck with this one.  It would be good to run some more tests to
determine if it is really heat related or not.  Try running the unit
in your refrigerator!

Until today, neither of my two macs had any trouble mounting a share on my LS
pro via afp.

Suddenly today it doesn't work.  The AFP Client in the mac just hangs.  There's
no problem
mounting other shares on the LS via afp.  Just the one I want. :(  And there
doesn't seem to be
a problem mounting via SMB.

Any ideas?

Hello all,

I appears that during the install of debian, I lost share permissions
or access from the outside.

Is there anyone that can help me sort thru this - I'm relatively lost
in LINUX.

Thanks,
Mark

--- In LinkStation_General@yahoogroups.com, Christopher Eykamp
<chris@...> wrote:

> This would seem to indicate a heat issue, though I'm not sure enough
> heat can build up in just 10 seconds to shut the machine down.

That depends on if you let the unit completely cool off before
restarting it. With a quick restart, the unit is probably still at an
elevated temperature and the heavy load of booting could quickly get
it past the limit.

I'm a little concerned why your unit would then be so sensitive to
overheating that the reduction to a 5CFM fan would cause a problem.
Did you install a new hard drive that runs hotter much hotter (and
takes more power from the power supply) than the old one. My LS-1 had
a low-performing Samsung drive in it which ran quite cool and didn't
take much power. I had to search around quite a bit to find a drive
that had comparable low heat and power requirements. I finally ended
up with a single-platter 160-Gig Seagate. Granted this wasn't much of
an upgrade over the 120-Gig Samsung, but I thought the Samsung was
getting tired after running for a few years.

I know people successfully put in bigger, more power consuming drives,
but I'm just being a long-term reliability nut with my LS.

It is also possible that since the your LS-1 is probably getting a
little old, the power supply might be getting weak as well, thus
starting to drop out of regulation under heavy load. Perhaps you
could monitor the voltage, preferably with an oscilloscope, worse case
just replace the smaller sized (thus used at higher frequencies)
electrolytic capacitors in the power supply. Make sure you use high
quality 105-degree(F) ones designed for switch-mode power supply
applications.

Finally, maybe it is a mechanical connection problem with your LS-1.
For example, maybe when assembled there is different stress on the
circuit board that could be causing a marginal solder connection to
fail slightly?

Good luck with this one. It would be good to run some more tests to
determine if it is really heat related or not. Try running the unit
in your refrigerator!

New to the group, but was hoping someone could point me in the right
direction for some troubles I'm having. Long story short, I had a
Linkstation that bricked itself for no discernible reason. I did no
modifications to it, it was just a stock box running perfectly until
the day it decided not to. Sent it back to Buffalo and after a while
they sent me back a brand new Linkstation Pro. Life was good until IT
TOO died on me for no reason. Couldn't mount the volumes of it, and
the drive seemed to make unusual noises. The noises have gone, but the
trouble remains. At one point I could reach the web config page for
the box and it seemed to suggest that I needed to reformat the drive;
however now I cannot even get to that web page. I swear, these boxes
just sit and run and that's it. I put no stress on them, no custom
software, nothing. Just turn it on when I need it, use it, turn it off
later.

So, Buffalo says that my warranty does not extend to the new box; I am
stuck with the original warranty, which means it is not OUT of
warranty which means I feel free to tinker with this thing to get it
working again.

I'm looking through the Linkstation Wiki pages and I see that FreeLink
seems like a fairly easy to install package. However, I'm not having
such great luck so far...

I plugged the unit into the ethernet port of my laptop and could not
ping it on the default 192.162.11.150. However, if I plug it into my
router I can ping it. I cannot, however, bring up the web interface to
the box in a browser. It is possible that my crossover cable is not
actually a crossover cable and that that is why I cannot ping it
locally. It may also be that the unit isn't grabbing that default
address, though the instructions for getting it to do that seem a
little convoluted.

NASNavigator sees the drive through the router, but the FreeLink
LSUpdater (trying initrd first, as per the wiki instructions) does not
see the drive at all.

So, I cannot even get past stage one right now. I could boot into
Linux (don't know a whole lot about it, but I can muddle my way
through) if that would give me an alternative to install the software.

I'm feeling pretty stuck and I really just want to finally get my
money's worth out of this box, because it seems like everyone enjoys
it and I feel left out of the party!

Thanks in advance for any advice/assistance you can offer,
Christopher Drum

Pretty much what I want to be able to do right now is wipe the
Linkstation Pro entirely and start from scratch. Truthfully, I'd even
be fine with first resetting it to factory fresh conditions (if
possible) before pursuing a FreeLink install.

Hi,

If you can ping it through the router, have you tried putting the
original firmware back on?  I have had this trouble, and when the web
config wasn't accessible, I was able to put the original firmware back
on just by downloading it from the Buffalo site.

You have to disable the firewall on your PC, since I think it tries to
get something from it remotely.

Andrew.

-----Original Message-----
From: LinkStation_General@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:LinkStation_General@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Christopher
Drum
Sent: 12 August 2007 14:17
To: LinkStation_General@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [LinkStation_General] Need advice on updating my Linkstation
Pro

New to the group, but was hoping someone could point me in the right
direction for some troubles I'm having. Long story short, I had a
Linkstation that bricked itself for no discernible reason. I did no
modifications to it, it was just a stock box running perfectly until
the day it decided not to. Sent it back to Buffalo and after a while
they sent me back a brand new Linkstation Pro. Life was good until IT
TOO died on me for no reason. Couldn't mount the volumes of it, and
the drive seemed to make unusual noises. The noises have gone, but the
trouble remains. At one point I could reach the web config page for
the box and it seemed to suggest that I needed to reformat the drive;
however now I cannot even get to that web page. I swear, these boxes
just sit and run and that's it. I put no stress on them, no custom
software, nothing. Just turn it on when I need it, use it, turn it off
later.

So, Buffalo says that my warranty does not extend to the new box; I am
stuck with the original warranty, which means it is not OUT of
warranty which means I feel free to tinker with this thing to get it
working again.

I'm looking through the Linkstation Wiki pages and I see that FreeLink
seems like a fairly easy to install package. However, I'm not having
such great luck so far...

I plugged the unit into the ethernet port of my laptop and could not
ping it on the default 192.162.11.150. However, if I plug it into my
router I can ping it. I cannot, however, bring up the web interface to
the box in a browser. It is possible that my crossover cable is not
actually a crossover cable and that that is why I cannot ping it
locally. It may also be that the unit isn't grabbing that default
address, though the instructions for getting it to do that seem a
little convoluted.

NASNavigator sees the drive through the router, but the FreeLink
LSUpdater (trying initrd first, as per the wiki instructions) does not
see the drive at all.

So, I cannot even get past stage one right now. I could boot into
Linux (don't know a whole lot about it, but I can muddle my way
through) if that would give me an alternative to install the software.

I'm feeling pretty stuck and I really just want to finally get my
money's worth out of this box, because it seems like everyone enjoys
it and I feel left out of the party!

Thanks in advance for any advice/assistance you can offer,
Christopher Drum

Pretty much what I want to be able to do right now is wipe the
Linkstation Pro entirely and start from scratch. Truthfully, I'd even
be fine with first resetting it to factory fresh conditions (if
possible) before pursuing a FreeLink install.




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I have a Buffalo 120 with an attached USB 250GB disk.  The 250GB disk
is failing, and I wanted to try and access the drive from a LINUX
(Ubuntu) PC or using some Windows tool that maps/mounts the drive.
Ubuntu won't mount the file system.  Nor can I access using Ex2FS under
Windows.  Can anyoone offer a suggestion? Thanks.

--- In LinkStation_General@yahoogroups.com, "lramsey36" <lramsey2@...>
wrote:
>
> I have a Buffalo 120 with an attached USB 250GB disk.  The 250GB disk
> is failing, and I wanted to try and access the drive from a LINUX
> (Ubuntu) PC or using some Windows tool that maps/mounts the drive.
> Ubuntu won't mount the file system.  Nor can I access using Ex2FS under
> Windows.  Can anyoone offer a suggestion? Thanks.
>


You need to use something called fixext2magic (more or less the right
name).  Post your question at the linkstationwiki.net site & use it
for reference, too.  Search the forums there...

it's an ext3 filesystem

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From: "lramsey36" <lramsey2@...>
To: LinkStation_General@yahoogroups.com
Sent: 15/08/2007 09:53 AM
Subject: [LinkStation_General] Type of File system on USB disk

I have a Buffalo 120 with an attached USB 250GB disk.  The 250GB disk
is failing, and I wanted to try and access the drive from a LINUX
(Ubuntu) PC or using some Windows tool that maps/mounts the drive.
Ubuntu won't mount the file system.  Nor can I access using Ex2FS under
Windows.  Can anyoone offer a suggestion? Thanks.


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--- In LinkStation_General@yahoogroups.com, Ira <gangalee@...> wrote:
>
> it's an ext3 filesystem

fix_ext2_magic is for you, from <http://linkstationwiki.net>

-Andre

--- In LinkStation_General@yahoogroups.com, "lalunas10" <lalunas10@...>
wrote:
>
> --- In LinkStation_General@yahoogroups.com, Ira <gangalee@> wrote:
> >
> > it's an ext3 filesystem
>
> fix_ext2_magic is for you, from <http://linkstationwiki.net>
>
> -Andre
>
I hate to sound like a moron, but what do I need to install in a
Windows envorinment to get this to "make" it's executable?

Thanks.
LER

--- In LinkStation_General@yahoogroups.com, "lramsey36" <lramsey2@...> wrote:
> > fix_ext2_magic is for you, from <http://linkstationwiki.net>
> I hate to sound like a moron, but what do I need to install in a
> Windows envorinment to get this to "make" it's executable?

The easiest way is to boot the PC into a Linux "Live CD" (Knoppix, ...), and use
one of the
precompiled executables.

-Andre

I appreciate the response, but need to clarify that I have never modded my
LinkStation in any
way, whatsoever. The firmware is the stock firmware, and now that the unit is
out of warranty
I want to change to a new firmware. Buffalo's own firmware software (which looks
pretty
much identical to the update software provided by FreeLink) gives the same
troubles as the
FreeLink installer, i.e. doesn't see the drive where other options do.

Christopher

I scheduled an immediate backup from my buffalo linkstation live to my
external usb and even though it finished it still says on the home
pages that the backup job is currently being done.  The jobs page also
doens't show and icon for that job to let me clear it.  Anyone ever
have this problem?  I've tried resetting but nothing seems to clear
it.  Any help is much appreciated.

--- In LinkStation_General@yahoogroups.com, "dirtriderdan345"
<dan_s_johnson@...> wrote:
>
> I scheduled an immediate backup from my buffalo linkstation live to my
> external usb and even though it finished it still says on the home
> pages that the backup job is currently being done.  The jobs page also
> doens't show and icon for that job to let me clear it.  Anyone ever
> have this problem?  I've tried resetting but nothing seems to clear
> it.  Any help is much appreciated.
>

I've seen the same issue with my LSPro,  if you don't have shell
access the easiest way to fix the issue is to initialize the box.
Go to maintenence -> initialization -> restore factory settings.

This will not affect your data, but it will reset all the settings in
the box.  Note that if you use static addresses, the box will revert
back to DHCP.

I would suggest using scheduled backups.  I only had the problem
happen with immediate backups, but never looked into why.  it didn't
happen with scheduled backups in my case.

regards,
goat

--- In LinkStation_General@yahoogroups.com, "Andrew Hodgson"
<andrew@...> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>
>
> I can see that in the stock firmware, there is a backup function which
> searches for other Linkstations.  Does anyone know if this uses Rsync,
> and if it is possible to emulate the "other Linkstation" using a Rsync
> config file on another server?  I want to rsync files from a remote
> server to my Linkstation as backup.
>
>
>
> Thanks.
>
> Andrew.
>

rsync itself, by default, has no ability to "search for other devices"
so this would have to be an added in service.  looking at my running
processes, the binary is called ls_sonar.

There doesn't seem to be alot of documentation on this service, but
the most seems to be in this document from the linkstation wiki
downloads.linkstationwiki.net/Uploads/OldUploads/LS_Pro_temporary/LSPro_Softw.rt\
f

I hope you have the knowledge to go down this road, as it would be a
great accomplishment to put together a way to communicate and allow
backups to be sent to the device,  however, if you think its too much,
  you may find it easier to either ftp transfer the data.

FTP is built in of course, unfortunately NFS is not built into the
kernel.  I would imagine though,  that if you enable SSH access with
this, you could setup rsync functionality, although I've never
personally tried.
Follow these steps for SSH setup:
http://forum.linkstationwiki.net/viewtopic.php?p=34723#p34723

regards,
goat

Hello - I just bought a linkstation live and am trying to configure it to be
access remotely through the web.

It comes up and asked for a username and password in a Microsoft smal box
(pic attached).  I have tried every possible user / password combination.

Linkstation user / password
user password set on web access screen in linkstation
router user password
computer user password

I could not get them to work and I thought maybe it was my firewall.  I shut
my router and windows firewalls totally down and it still did not work.

The IP address you see was my internal ip address for the linkstation

This page does not show up in the buffalo documentation.  I get the initial
screen asking for my nas name listed in the web access page and i get
through that with no problem.

Any thoughts?




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--- In LinkStation_General@yahoogroups.com, aiannar974
<anthonyiannarelli@...> wrote:
>
>
> Hello - I just bought a linkstation live and am trying to configure
it to be
> access remotely through the web.
>
> It comes up and asked for a username and password in a Microsoft
smal box
> (pic attached).  I have tried every possible user / password
combination.
>
> Linkstation user / password
> user password set on web access screen in linkstation
> router user password
> computer user password
>
> I could not get them to work and I thought maybe it was my
firewall.  I shut
> my router and windows firewalls totally down and it still did not
work.
>
> The IP address you see was my internal ip address for the
linkstation
>
> This page does not show up in the buffalo documentation.  I get the
initial
> screen asking for my nas name listed in the web access page and i
get
> through that with no problem.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
>
>
>
> http://www.nabble.com/file/p12325463/linkstation.pdf
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>
It is looking for your setup name and password, ie: user: admin
password: admin (if you haven't changed it).
You are not connecting to the shared drives you are connected to the
management login.

Geep

Hello Graham - I tried the setup password.  I can access the setup of the nas
through the ip address with that user and password.  I did not change them
yet.

Anthony



Graham Denison wrote:
>
> --- In LinkStation_General@yahoogroups.com, aiannar974
> <anthonyiannarelli@...> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hello - I just bought a linkstation live and am trying to configure
> it to be
>> access remotely through the web.
>>
>> It comes up and asked for a username and password in a Microsoft
> smal box
>> (pic attached).  I have tried every possible user / password
> combination.
>>
>> Linkstation user / password
>> user password set on web access screen in linkstation
>> router user password
>> computer user password
>>
>> I could not get them to work and I thought maybe it was my
> firewall.  I shut
>> my router and windows firewalls totally down and it still did not
> work.
>>
>> The IP address you see was my internal ip address for the
> linkstation
>>
>> This page does not show up in the buffalo documentation.  I get the
> initial
>> screen asking for my nas name listed in the web access page and i
> get
>> through that with no problem.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> http://www.nabble.com/file/p12325463/linkstation.pdf
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>>
> It is looking for your setup name and password, ie: user: admin
> password: admin (if you haven't changed it).
> You are not connecting to the shared drives you are connected to the
> management login.
>
> Geep
>
>
>

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I came home from work today. turned on the LS thinking I had the old drive in
it, (but the new one was in) and it came up first time! I installed openlink
and it's great. Thanks for letting me vent.


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I'm not sure if my earlier reply made it through or not. I think you
are looking at the log in for users of the share. You set up users
first through the set up when you turn on WebAccess and setup the
shared folders. You can set up individual users or groups, or both.

Ok, so I feel stupid. I assumed that not only can I access my files
remotely, I could actually write back to the HD. I can't seem to do
it. Does WebAccess actually let me write? Or just Read?

I just installed a LinkStation Pro and updated to freelink following
this link:

http://linkstationwiki.net/index.php?title=FreeLink_for_the_Linkstation_Pro

and set up partitions by more-or-less following this link:

http://linkstationwiki.net/index.php/Custom_Partitions_on_the_LS_Pro

Here's what I ended up with:

df output:

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs                455M  336M  119M  74% /
/dev/root.old          13M   11M  2.3M  83% /initrd
/dev/root             455M  336M  119M  74% /
tmpfs                 100K     0  100K   0% /lib/init/rw
tmpfs                  62M     0   62M   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs                  10M  8.0K   10M   1% /tmp
/dev/sda1             282M   15M  252M   6% /boot
/dev/sda6             295G  272K  295G   1% /mnt/disk1

fdisk output:

Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1          37      297171   83  Linux
/dev/sda2              38         403     2939895   83  Linux
/dev/sda4             404       38913   309331575    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5             404         440      297171   82  Linux swap /
Solaris
/dev/sda6             441       38913   309034341   83  Linux

I should point out that things seem to be working in general. I can
ssh in, run basic commands (man, ls, vi, etc.).

When I try to install webmin, I get an error:

root@LS-GL7D6:~# dpkg -i webmin_1.360_all.deb
(Reading database ... 12207 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking webmin (from webmin_1.360_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing webmin_1.360_all.deb (--install):
  failed in buffer_write(fd) (9, ret=-1): backend dpkg-deb during
`./usr/share/webmin/useradmin/help/intro.ca.html': No space left on device
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
  webmin_1.360_all.deb

I'm assuming it has to do with the fact that I've only got 119M
available in the root filesystem. I'm guessing that what I want to do
is put user packages on a different partition, but I'm not sure about
the best way to go about it (symlink maybe, but where does Debian put
its packages?). I'm also not terribly familiar with Debian
specifically and it's been a while since I've done much with Linux in
general.

Ideally what I'd like is to be able to store user installed packages
on the big partition but not expose them to network clients (Windows
and OS X). I'm also planning on installing slimserver and subversion,
so I'll be needing a hidden location to store MySql data and the
subversion repository, and I'd like to make it easy to upgrade the
OS/kernel in the future.

Is there a best-practices document for partitioning under freelink, or
can someone suggest some configuration options for my system?

Thanks.

Colin

Hi I recently bought an HD-HG400LAN and have successfully installed
PPC_Freelink 1.11 onto it. I have also upgraded to 2.6 kernel and the
box is now running, which means I can telnet/ssh into it and use the
samba shares.

I have set a static IP of 192.168.100.88.

Now I want to revert to the official firmware and for this purpose I
have switched back to the 2.4 kernel. But when I run FWUpdate.exe that
comes with the official firmware it just cannot see the box and keeps
saying "a linkstation is not connected".

What do I need to do short of opening up the box?

Thanks.

Andy

--- In LinkStation_General@yahoogroups.com, "foremind" <achan@...> wrote:
>
> Hi I recently bought an HD-HG400LAN and have successfully installed
> PPC_Freelink 1.11 onto it. I have also upgraded to 2.6 kernel and the
> box is now running, which means I can telnet/ssh into it and use the
> samba shares.
>
> I have set a static IP of 192.168.100.88.
>
> Now I want to revert to the official firmware and for this purpose I
> have switched back to the 2.4 kernel. But when I run FWUpdate.exe that
> comes with the official firmware it just cannot see the box and keeps
> saying "a linkstation is not connected".
>
> What do I need to do short of opening up the box?

Run kernel 2.4 (as documented). Edit /etc/default/boot_new.sh, set NO_START="1",
reboot
& flash

-Andre