On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 15:17:41 +0100
Richard Bown <richard@g8jvm.info> allegedly wrote:
> Hi Guys
> I'm trying to reduce my energy footprint here, and decide to rub the
> dust off an old NSLU2 It did have Deb on it years ago when I got it,
> but nowhere did I write down the ssh passwords, so it was a reflash
> job.
Why not just mount the USB disk on another machine and edit the passwd
file?
> I just want to use it as a Cups server with just one printer on
> it. I see Debian 5 was too big for it, and there is a way of using
> Debian6 with an external USB HDD. which is a bit OTT for just a print
> server. In the end I flashed it with SlugOSBE, installed Cups, but it
> wouldn't run as it wanted a module printer.o
Martin provides a debian 6 tarball at
http://people.debian.org/~tbm/nslu2/squeeze/base.tar.bz2
(see instructions at http://www.cyrius.com/debian/nslu2/unpack.html)
Mick
blog: baldric.net
gpg fingerprint: FC23 3338 F664 5E66 876B 72C0 0A1F E60B 5BAD D312