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

To be fair, and maybe elaborate on the straight no, nobody (as far as I know) has done it before on this hardware, nobody has paved the way, and you would be really out pretty far on your own. You would have to solder the serial port on the DSM g600, compile stuff and flash stuff which has been covered, but also possibly heavily alter freenas and all its packages to make it happen and cajole the right drivers into action. These will be pretty advanced tasks that would be mostly original work. That is not to say the community would not try and answer questions you have, but they may well not be able to. Even if you are a fairly advanced developer with plenty embedded device experience, this will still be a major undertaking.

It would be interesting to try, but I would suggest looking at the packages you require from FreeNAS, and getting them to compile for the g600 as a target, figure out their installation requirements/quirks and how to use fun plug to pave the way for them to run. This would still be a difficult task, but much easier, and would also possibly pave the way for your next step anyway.

If you are really confident about this - go for it!

Tokka wrote:

Hi, have you just looked here?
http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/arm.html
Hope this may be helpful ^_^

Not really.

All I can suggest for all advanced users is that: use Gentoo with custom kernel from flash or loaded by loader.o.
It's already very well working distro for DSM-G600 and you got tons of applications from portage.

But users who want to develop or make something further should look: new kernel progress and rt2500 wireless problem

qn1234 wrote:

Hi Sala,

Have you successfully booted your custom firmware that you have on your ftp folder?  I tried both the ram and sda3 versions without any luck.  If I remember correctly, the ram version failed to mount the ramdisk even when I passed in cmdline=root=/dev/ram or something like that.   I don't have /dev/sda3 so I hacked the sda3 version to look for /dev/sda2 instead.  That didn't go very far either.

Most cases it's not the problem of the kernel, I think its the problem of user-space. For me personally I never haven't got gentoo working (booting to the login) for the very first boot.
Dont use ram version and don't "hack" sda3 to sda2. Set sda3 to .config, patch kernel and recompile it. But this may be problem here, because d-link firmware messes up all you Gentoo installation permissions on sda2, so I highly recommend to use sda3 which will be untouched by d-link firmware.