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Thanks, I will look at this tomorrow.  Right now I have ffp installed on HD.  Do I need to delete that first or is it required to work?  If I get ffp installed on the USB drive and working, can I delete the one off the HD then?

Thanks

What is the advantage of running ffp off a usb disk?  Same question but with the root file system?

I have my watch directory for rtorrent running on a usb disk so that my disk will spin down.  I like to think the little bit of work saves me a few pennies every month.

But the root file system never has to access the disk.  And how often does ffp need to access the hard drive after boot?  Not often, I think.

edit: der..  I can read.  Frees up ram.  Not bad...  I might have to do this.  The usb stick I'm using is really crappy.  Will my dns suffer from the lack of good read/write speeds?

Last edited by bomaroast (2008-10-29 06:16:02)

Hi - I was thinking of trying to move to using FFP with a hub and a USB flashdrive and my printer but have found it a bit daunting as there's so many bits and pieces of info it's difficult to know what's the newest/best.

Any chance you could document how to do this from start to finish for ffp 0.5 users as, looking at your recent posts, you seem to have done this quite recently?

RAP

I'm in the same boat as @rap - running ffp off HDD, and I'd like to move to a USB key.  Not really sure where to start

Well since the original kernel runs in 64MB of RAM including the ramdisk, you should have way enough space...

I'm not sure of what I'm doing now. Why /ffp directory where I got a /linux directory? An adequate kernel module is now in my unit, my stick is inserted and just formated, and I'm now wgetting again debnas-0.5.tar.bz2...

Opperpanter wrote:

Without trying it yet, for me this part is a little unclear:

Code:

- If you want the default dns-323 software (and web interface) to run,
###      then you need to obtain the initrd and copy it over to $USBROOTPART.
###      i.e. convert the firmware initrd into your root filesystem.
###         dd if=/dev/mtdblock3 of=initrd.gz bs=64 skip 1
###           (note skip the first block since it is a "u-boot/PPCBoot image")
###         gunzip initrd.gz
###         mkdir temp
###         mount -o loop initrd temp
###         mount $USBROOTPART $USBROOTMOUNT
###         cp -a temp/* $USBROOTMOUNT/
###         umount temp
###         umount $USBROOTMOUNT
###

May be you/someone could provide us with a dirlisting to show how the endresult should look like?

I could not figure this out as well, I did get as far as 2 partitions on my USB drive, actually got FFP running off it and was able to umount the HDD's after disabling samba...

I attempted to look at the FFP-reloaded but it didn't seem to make the above part more understandable.

This script however does seem to have allowed me to load and run off USB.  I also managed to get a 1.5TB Seagate USB drive automatically mounting and sharing with this setup!

I don't understand what functions would be missing, the web interface seems to work although the samba shares don't get listed properly.  The status page looks fine.  I don't see the need for following the steps in the above quote and utilizing the second partition of the USB boot drive.

Anyone care to enlighten a newbie?

Last edited by caust1c (2010-02-24 23:13:32)

Hi guys,

Digging up an old thread here, because I just bought a 323.  Will this work as easy as it sounds?

http://zyxel.nas-central.org/wiki/FFP-stick

After I install to a usb stick, how do I know if it will run off my HDD install (already setup) or if it will run the USB one?

Any thoughts?

Mijzelf wrote:

That will work as easy as it sounds, but only on a ZyXEL NAS.

WOW brain fart on that one,  that's what happens when your browsing the net 5 mins after you wake up. 

Is there a newer, easy way to run this for the dns 323?  The script in the OP is all commented, and I am really a newb with linux and im not sure how to implement it. 

Been looking for a straightforward method to run ffp off usb, and maybe allocate some ram for the unit to use as well.

Planning on using a 4gb stick that I dont use for much else. 


suggestions?  links would be much appreciated.  Ive tried searching but I am way behind on the learning curve with this machine and things like reloaded and other stuff keeps getting mentioned leading to me searching other threads to see what I need. 

Just asking to be steered in the right direction with what is newest/easiest way to do this