Re: ancient help for a slug
On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 21:38:23 +0100
mick <mbm@rlogin.net> wrote:
> 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
>
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>
Hi Mick
that would have been easy If I still had the original usb stick. I t was sitting on a shelf for
years, and things get lost. or reused.
I had a look at Martins page and what out me off was trying to create all the partitions on a
stick. as gparted will only allow one plus swap.
I don't think a NSLU2 is fast enough, and definitely not enough RAM to use as a print server.
an old P2 laptop with debian 6 will only print one line every 5 secs.
A pogoplug V2 was recommended and I may go down that route , I hope it will be OK to use a a print
server.
I'd be interested if someone has used one as a printserver
Thanks
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Richard Bown
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