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

njoy wrote:

I see these guides allover the net how to make your own firmware for the DSM-G600, but I've never seen anyone post a download of a 3rd party build. Are there any?

http://dns323.kood.org/dsmg600/howto:custom_firmware

njoy wrote:

And the guides of how to chroot to debian are old an outdated. How come no one posted a premade funplug including a working setup of debian to just download.

False, debian bootstrap (chroot) guide is working.

njoy wrote:

We're all on the same hardware so everyone shouldn't be having to compile everything all from scratch.

False, debian = already compiled, custom firmware = already compiled, gentoo stage 3= already compiled.

njoy wrote:

My DSM-G600 in its original state is very buggy and needs a restart quite often. The ftpd crashes some ftp sessions. I can't install any funplug that supports XBOX 360 UPnP AV. The samba sessions freezes time to time. Transfer speeds goes up and down when copying files from it. I wanna make use of this ugly little NAS somehow.
Tim

For example I do use gentoo hdd boot on dsm-g600, with latest samba 3.3.2, vsftpd 2.1.0 and transmission 1.22 using latest lighttpd and php. No problem so far. There is just one thing, you'l have to know what you are doing or buy support from the people who know what they are doing.
All info posted in this forum and wiki's is as is people have posted it. Don't like it, don't use it. All at your own risk.

Anyway, you can get started with whatever you want to get accomplished, using wiki pages and forum topics as guides. If you run into problems, then just ask for help. It's a normal procedure.

I would not recommend custom firmware at all. Gentoo works best on this little nas because it is optimized for low memory device.

First I would recommend you to get gentoo working on a regular pc or mac to just get more familiar with this linux.
Then you can install gentoo to sda3 and use loader.o method to boot into it. After everything works correctly you can add loader.o lines to fun_plug and you can boot directly to gentoo, without running any commands.

You are right, it is possible to make a tarball which you can simply extract and boot, but I just don't recommend it. Take it as a test, if you cant setup this easy gentoo or debian installation, then you should not try to use it first place.

I am sure that many people want to do things their own way and not using any preconfigured and pre-setup tarballs is the best way to support this. After all installing gentoo to DSM-G600 is very similar with the method you use to install this on a regular pc. Same thing apply to debian with debootstrap.

The debian wiki has lacking or invalid instructions leading to nowhere.

There's no complete packages of either Debian or Gentoo for just unpacking and rebooting your NAS. Just parts. How is this such a problem when the bigger problem in my opinion are invalid/incomplete instructions leading to nothing.

Following the somehow not so obvious instructions for Gentoo resulted in a broken ptys.

Following the instructions for Debian resulted in: printf: No such file or directory.

Last edited by njoy (2009-04-20 22:58:52)