Re: NAS raid with Debian?
On Tue, 25 Jun 2013 00:49:00 +1000
Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 5/04/2013 6:49 AM, Celejar wrote:
> > FWIW, I've been running Debian Wheezy on a Seagate Go Flex Net
> > (STAK100 - http://projects.doozan.com/debian/) for a while, with pretty
> > good results. It's a Kirkwood system with 128MB RAM, 256MB NAND, 2 SATA
> > connectors, 1 USB port and Gigabit ethernet
>
> I'm looking at installing Debian on one of these:
>
> http://www.megabuy.com.au/seagate-stbf500300-goflex-satellite-500gb-mobile-wireless-portable-hard-drive-p10274465.html
>
> It has built in wireless capability (and battery) with the 500GB disk.
>
> A serious limitation of the unit is that it creates it's "own" WiFi
> network and doesn't participate in an existing WiFi network.... that's
> what I really want to fix.
>
> The firmware download includes a uImage file as follows:
>
> # file uImage
> uImage: u-boot legacy uImage, Linux-2.6.32, Linux/ARM, OS Kernel Image
> (Not compressed), 2313388 bytes, Tue Dec 20 21:36:47 2011, Load Address:
> 0x80008000, Entry Point: 0x80008000, Header CRC: 0x01B18018, Data CRC:
> 0x0AA8AC17
>
> So, I'm hoping that it will be possible to make this unit much more
> useful as a very portable Debian box.
Well, good luck, but a quick web search doesn't suggest that people
have gotten real Debian (or Arch) running on that model. There's a thread here:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-arm/2012/08/threads.html#00107
But the thing doesn't seem to appear on Jeff Doozan's site, or on archlinuxarm.
> AndrewM
Celejar
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