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

actually my dns323 works right now as it should .. the only advantage i see is that probably sshd works with rootdirectory .. (because it doesn't work at least on my ffp 0.5)

@pizzaboy_au: Did you open the link in your browser or did you try to download directly via wget or "Save as"? Rapidshare provides no direct links to files.
However, I created a project on sourceforge and there is a direct link avaiable above now.

@fonz: Article updated, hope to avoid misunderstandings now. I know chroot is kind of ugly, but the fact it cannot harm anything is a large benefit when it comes to embedded devices and people/organizations with low budget ;-)
According to my benchmarks, the chrooted debian (upgraded to lenny) massively outperforms the native system in most cases, guess the new gcc and libc are way more optimized for arm. I doubt that a native Debian would be much faster, chroot seems to have none to very little overhead, it just needs more memory (which can be reduced a lot by killing most of the process started by the firmware). Overall I guess the chroot is less than 3% slower and needs maybe 2-3 megs more memory than a native Debian system.
I think a current, optimized kernel within the chroot would speed up thinks a lot more than flashing with a custom firmware, especially network throughput could use some optimization. Going to work on that.

Last edited by manuel_t (2008-10-21 07:55:45)

You can turn on laptop-mode in debian, this will prevent the disk from spinning up everytime something is written to a logfile
If you do not need those logfiles at all, you could mount a small ramdisk at /var/log.
Not running klogd at startup (/boot/linuxrc) is also an option.

I doubt this will run from an usb-stick, afaik the DNS-323 reads fun_plug-scripts from harddisk only - but I have not tried yet.

Hi,
i tried this howto and it works so far with etch (upgraded to lenny). But now i wanted to enable nfs an it gets me an error:

dns323:~# /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server start
FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.12.6-arm1/modules.dep: No such file or directory
Not starting NFS kernel daemon: no support in current kernel. (warning).
dns323:~#

The packets nfs-kernel-srver, nfs-common and portmap are installes. How do i get the right kernel working?

Last edited by djkaoss (2008-10-24 10:50:51)

Wow! Thank you soo much for this manuel_t!

Just installed it on my dns323 and upgraded to lenny! I need perl for BackupPC and ffp's perl wasn't up to snuff. I _really_ recommend updating the wiki with this debian install. the Wiki's chroot debian howto needs cleanup IMHO.

Cheers.

Thx for the hard work, I will try it this weekend ! Good job !
keep us posted on your upgrades and optimisation.

Alrighty, someone is free to correct this if they want or if this is wrong but this appears to have successfully updated my etch to lenny (Even the debian FAQ doesnt list the right files any more)

You do want to do the above steps to the etch.list file so nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/etch.list and replace the first entries of etch with lenny on each line. Then save the file and run apt-get update then apt-get upgrade.

Enjoy (Or correct the steps )

ok. I have found a few steps to upgrade

of course this is at your own risk blah blah blah
Anyhow. Follow the steps below and you should be fine (most of these steps have been pilfered from here)

1) modify the etch.list file to show lenny (see Sraet posts) I would launch to the following command first
   cp etc/apt/sources.list.d/etch.list ~/etch.list.bak
  This will give you a backup on the root's home folder
2) launch command
   apt-get update
3) then
   apt-get upgrade
4) then
   apt-get dist-upgrade
5) reboot
6) just to check
   apt-get update
7) then
   apt-get upgrade

that should put your NAS to a nice little lenny distro and up to date.

Any questions, yell.

hmmmm seem to notice a slow down on the prompt. ie I type it trails behind.

Anyone else noticed this?

thx

Mounting a second disk seems to be missing. It looks like you're only mounting the first. Locales may also be a little screwy. Locales not set or something type error.

Kenedy101. The main issue that you are going to hit is that the USB does not always mount in the same location. You will need to find a way to mirror this. Have a look att his link for an idea. The method will e the same but you will need to customise it to your actual environment

The IR receiver is on a USB hubb and changes location. so a little poking will work here I think

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Ha … R_Receiver


Zimer - Can you give me the error please? I have resolved this inthe past and can not remember where!!

thanks

another quick one. It seems that the tools to control the RAID are not installed.

just run

apt-get install mdadm

and that will give you the tools to eye ball the raid status and modify / track / rebuild etc....