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Re: Debain on a Buffalo TeraStation Live (HS-DHTGL/R5)



On 26/03/2020 18:25, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 1:15 PM Gilles Risch <gilles.risch@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> During these days of isolation I reanimated my old TeraStation Live
>> (HS-DHTGL/R5), equipped it with some new disks and installed the latest
>> official firmware (2.14). This firmware is based on a quiet old Linux
>> kernel:
>>   #uname -a
>>   Linux TS-LIVE 2.6.16.16-arm1 #9 Fri Aug 31 13:42:57 JST 2007 armv5tejl
>> unknown
>>
>> So I decided to look for something newer. Is it possible to install and
>> run a recent version of Debian on this Marvell Orion based NAS?
> 
> There is still minimal kernel support for this platform in the old board
> files (not in the .dts format), and the armel kernel enables support, but
> as far as I can tell, it only has 128MB of RAM, and the official minimum
> for a Debian installation is now 256MB, so this may be a rough ride.
> 
> Using OpenWRT instead of Debian would better fit into the RAM, but
> they have removed support for all Marvell Orion5x based platforms
> a few months ago, making that also a bit hard, though depending on
> how motivated you are, you could add back OpenWRT support by
> creating a dts file for their "Kirkwood" port.
> 
>        Arnd
> 


Thanks,

I'll have a look at OpenWRT.

Regards,
Gilles

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