DSM-G600, DNS-3xx and NSA-220 Hack Forum

Look there,

download the system (about 100MB):

http://msbd.de/dns313/DNS-313_etch4.0r3_02.tgz

and the tutorials (german/english):

http://msbd.de/dns313/Installation.rtf
http://msbd.de/dns313/Install_en.rtf

Ubuntu is perfect for this and 64Bit shouldn´t be a problem.

When connect the 313 to Ubuntu, observe the logfile to see, which device
(/dev/sda - sdb - sdc...) you will partitionize.

I did all the howto and I don't know how can i start the debian?
what i have to do?

CharminBaer wrote:

Turn the power on...
Yes, so simple. But what happens when you press the powerbutton?
Normally the powerled should go on and a few seconds later also the HDD-led. (blue)
Then you can hear the harddisk for a while. About 30 sec. later the HDD-led goes green,
booting Debian is now finished. (exactly the /etc/rc.local-script has finished)
Now you should be able to login with telnet. No idea about MacOS, but on Ubuntu´s shell
type:  "telnet dns-313", log in as root, the password is "passwd".

I did everithings, but my system is not workiig find, maybe there is a stupid things,
my artition table in de hard disk is that:
   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sde1               1         131     1052226   82  Linux swap
/dev/sde3   *         132         791     5293417   83  Linux
/dev/sde2             792       60801   482022292   83  Linux

I had format the sde2 with a ext3 partition, (2 hour to format) but the system doesn't recognoice that like a partition and can't mount it.

I think that maybe is for that. What do you think about?

ok, I'll try that.
Do you know why when i format the sde2 partition (Volume_1) it's didn't mout it? I mind, afterpartitioning and format, the system can't recognoice the partition. the system say that the filesystem is not know. coul be becouuse the partition is 459 gb?
Thanks.

I get this error at partitioning the hd, (gparted:7422): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to set text from markup due to error parsing markup: Error·in the line·15:·the reference character «8» not codect a allowed caracter

Last edited by scapitan (2008-06-02 15:40:05)

And how's about the power-saving? Does it work?

The Debian wasn´t really ready for download, but scapitan was so impatient...   

It has still some little bugs, powersaving didn´t working yet a.s.o...
By now only ext2/ext3 is supported by the kernel and NTFS by a module, but it should not be a problem making an specialised kernel with Support for other filesystems.

and @scapitan:
No fear! You never can brick the box, when you only work through USB with the disk! The one and only chance to brick the box is, when you try to flash the boatloader.
So let´s consider, what could be the problem...
- the partitions/filesystems aren´t well, but why?
- may be, the 64bit-Ubuntu makes some things other then 32bit´s ?
- 459GB is not the problem, but which system says, it can´t recognise the partition, Ubuntu64 or Debian-313?
- in fact, when the HDD-led stays blue after about 30 sec., Debian is not running...
- most importend thing: are there rootfs.tgz, rd.gz and zImage in the /.boot-directory?

I also had such problems at the beginning of my work with Debian, but I also have an serial console and can receive error-messages...
I had an older 80GB Seagate Harddisk, tried to install Debian. Partitionizing works fine, file-operations over USB too. But no way to boot from this HDD. The bootloader found the partition and the /.boot-directory, initial ramdisk is loading fine but then it says "no root partition found". Same problem is with the 750GB and 1TB Samsung drives.

Hello,
I also tried to install etch on my new DNS-313 and follow charmingbear's instructions literally - to no avail.
Then I noticed a warning from mke2fs that 256-byte inodes are not compatible with older systems.

So I tried

 mkfs.ext2 -I 128 /dev/sdb3

, unpacked the archive and it booted like a charm.

The problem lies probably in a newer version of mke2fs and the bootloader of DNS-313. GRUB had a similar issue but now it is corrected.

scapitan, maybe this will help you.

Last edited by woodypl (2008-06-03 21:24:42)

I´ll try it tonight, thanks to don´t let me tonight....

tomorrow I´ll tell you...

scapitan, which switch do you have? Did you check the cables?
I'm fighting with D-link DGS-1005D, 10/100 work fine but 1000 doesn't (switch and 313 connect each other, but there is a lot of corrupted frames even on 25cm cable, and samba transfer is slower than 10/100).

CharminBaer I think so, It´s a very low cost hardware but is enought to a home.

I´ll try to install afp protocol to compare with samba and I´ll tell you about. Maybe there are same samba parameters to change becouse I had gooten the same problem with a supermicro hardware and I was resolved by smb.conf modification.

I´ll tell you later.

Please, correct me my english if you want. I´m spanish and the english lenguage is not easy for me.

I see that the fan is not working like before install debian, is it working with the debian distribution? there is any metod to configure it?

Last edited by scapitan (2008-06-04 23:37:42)

Could you post your ifconfig logs? I dont remember exactly parameters because I tested it a month ago (and my ifconfig based on busybox) , but here is a help link http://linux-ip.net/html/tools-ifconfig.html

Example, that's the interesting part:
RX packets:190312 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:86955 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

I received many errors & dropped frames (3-4%) that caused transfer to slow down to 6-7MB/s