Newbie here considering purchasing the NSLU2 and creating a media server. I would like it to be able to do a few other things too. I know some of this is...
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Marcel Nijenhof
marcelnijenhof
Mar 1, 2007 9:18 pm
On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 02:05 +0000, John wrote: A lot depends realy on the distribution you run (e.g. linksys firmware, unslung, openslug, debian) and the time...
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Marcel Nijenhof
marcelnijenhof
Mar 1, 2007 9:20 pm
... Probably you can solve that with a alias in the config file: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_alias.html#alias -- marceln...
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siegfried
Sieg_Heintze
Mar 2, 2007 3:25 am
I'm using a slug with openvpn to access an offsite disk. If I have trouble with my boot disk, I want to be able to bring my offsite backup disk on site and...
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John
ydoesgodmock...
Mar 2, 2007 7:49 am
Thanks for the reply. The problem, I guess, is I don't know which distrubition I need/want nor really how to go about tweaking Linux from SSH. I've only used...
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roy_anstee
Mar 2, 2007 11:21 am
... I am noy sure how I update Wiki with my experiences? Will it not confuse people with too much information as I found? ... improve it. ... I am still...
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Rod Whitby
rwhitby
Mar 2, 2007 11:30 am
... Use the Master Makefile. Build slugosle. Flash it using the reset button upgrade mode and upslug2. Done. -- Rod...
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Adam Ward
cayspam
Mar 2, 2007 1:03 pm
... I did find the dlink dns-300 which as an enclosure would have suited perfectly, but its FAT32 only. There is a guy looking at making an alternative...
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hopbot001
Mar 2, 2007 1:41 pm
hello all! i just got my nslu2 and its so neat! i have Unslung 6.8 on it and openssh and want to set up one for my friend who is a mac user and needs a nas...
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realpsychodad
Mar 2, 2007 3:18 pm
Hi No, you do not. Just use it with unslung or even stock linksys firmaware. Mac does work nice with SMB shares provided by the nslu2, no software needed. The...
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hopbot001
Mar 2, 2007 7:43 pm
thanks Psychodad! i am assuming that means the drive needs to be FAT? is there a disadvantage to that for the Mac user (as opposed to having an HFS+ drive...
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Marcel Nijenhof
marcelnijenhof
Mar 2, 2007 9:49 pm
... 1) You need at least one native drive. 2) There is no support for HFS+. 3) You could use a second disk with fat. -- marceln...
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Marcel Nijenhof
marcelnijenhof
Mar 2, 2007 10:04 pm
... The slug always boot from it's internal flash. During the boot it will check if there is a valid disk and then change to that external disk as root disk. ...
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siegfried
Sieg_Heintze
Mar 2, 2007 10:25 pm
I apologize if I have posted this query twice. However, since I am not seeing my own message in my nslu2 folder I am sending this again. I had a devil of a...
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Marcel Nijenhof
marcelnijenhof
Mar 2, 2007 10:29 pm
... From: http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/FAQ/NTFS NTFS read/write success confirmed (though reliability to be established) when using Debian\NSLU2 with...
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GlynnParsons
Mar 3, 2007 8:58 am
I have been running verious versions Unslung for just under a year now and am currently running V2.3R63-uNSLUng-6.8-beta, and have not had an issues. However...
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jezfeepa
Mar 3, 2007 9:00 am
I am hoping someone can help. I currenly installed NSLU2 with the latest version of unslug 6.8. I unslinged the installed firefly media server. This is my...
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Marcel Nijenhof
marcelnijenhof
Mar 3, 2007 10:07 am
... I guess that drive 2 is the unslung native drive? In that case it uses ext3 as filesystem but this disk is also used for the swap and configuration...
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Marcel Nijenhof
marcelnijenhof
Mar 3, 2007 10:25 am
... It hard to tell what causes this without more information. There are a few programs which give useful information: - dmesg - cat /proc/bus/usb/devices ...
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Marcel Nijenhof
marcelnijenhof
Mar 3, 2007 3:02 pm
... In that case you probably should use unslung. Use one disk as native disk and the other with fat. -- marceln...
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Phil Endecott
endecotp
Mar 3, 2007 5:19 pm
... Roy is right. Rod, it's not going to work to ask people who were confused by the documentation to fix it - they are exactly the wrong people. The people...
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johannes
johannes.harms
Mar 3, 2007 11:24 pm
I think I was in a similar situation as you: I have been using Linux a bit, but rather stayed in the Gnome/KDE UI than in the console. I am not a slug expert...
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nick.ratbert
Mar 3, 2007 11:26 pm
Hi, Just got my first slug 4 days ago, but am not new to Linux. It's only a 133MHz Slug, so I will be doing the 266MHz modification soon. So far I'm impressed...
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GlynnParsons
Mar 3, 2007 11:26 pm
thanks for the reply. Output from dmesg and cat commands -dmesg Linux version 2.4.22-xfs (unslung@...) (gcc version 3.4.4) #1 Mon Apr 10 18:17:11 PDT...
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Adam Ward
cayspam
Mar 4, 2007 5:06 am
... I got mine a few days ago, and I spent some time doing the flashing, using the page prior to your edits. I think the changes made are good. I don't run...
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Adam Ward
cayspam
Mar 4, 2007 8:09 am
I've just installed openntpd on OpenSlug 3.10, and the Australia/Perth timezone doesn't reflect our DST trial. The file at http://matt.ucc.asn.au/time/ works...
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Stanley P. Miller
stanley_p_mi...
Mar 4, 2007 4:26 pm
Not that I understand NFS... this is working fairly well for me. The biggest improvement was the rsize/wsize change. fstab: 192.168.2.251:/public /mnt/s1-1 nfs...
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Adam Ward
cayspam
Mar 5, 2007 11:48 am
Hi, I'm trying to install rtorrent, and one of the dependencies is libsigc++. ipkg is erroring root@nas:/# ipkg install ...
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nick.ratbert
Mar 5, 2007 2:53 pm
Read and write sizes don't seem to have any effect on my hangs. Can I just ask, is your slug 133 or 266MHz? I wonder if a fast slug could do a better job of...
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Marcel Nijenhof
marcelnijenhof
Mar 5, 2007 3:11 pm
... Why all these options? I don't have any problems with the default options which are: $ nfsstat -m /mnt/1 from paard:/share/flash/data Flags:...
