NSLU2
Revision as of 19:23, 17 April 2007 by <bdi>PhilippeTeuwen</bdi> (talk | contribs) (→After first reboot)
http://www.andreabeggi.net/wp-content/53006-nslu2.jpg
Links
- Description on wikipedia
- OpenSlug
Todo
- check if we need to http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/HowTo/OverClockTheSlug
- Probably yes:
Calibrating delay loop... 132.71 BogoMIPS (lpj=663552)
- Mine came with
- Server Name: LKG63472F
- Version: V2.3RA5
- Connect USB printer?
- Install backuppc
- Connect Tuxdroid dongle
Debian
Installation
To install, follow the howto, here are the big steps:
- Get Debian 4.0r0 firmware from http://www.slug-firmware.net/ and unzip it
- Power the NSLU2 and wait a bit (green light) before plugging it to the network if you've a DHCP, so the NSLU2 will choose itself IP 192.168.1.77, otherwise look to your DHCP server logs to find the IP attribution
- Go to the admin webpage, tab administration, login admin/admin
- Configure ALL network params if you don't have DHCP
- Go to the admin webpage, tab administration, login admin/admin, tab advanced, tab upgrade
- Upload di-nslu2.bin, start upgrade
- Wait for "upgrading ok" (5mins) -> wait for 3 bips (5-10mins)
- This is the last moment to plug an external USB mass-storage if you didn't do so yet
- Login via ssh installer@192.168.1.77 (or another IP got by DHCP...) pwd "install"
- I did it from an xterm but exported term mode is pure console so it's better to login from a real text console otherwise the ncurses menu is a bit broken (but still usable)
- Start installation, manually load the following modules:
- ext3-modules-2.6.18-4-ixp4xx-di
- partman-auto
- partman-ext3
- scsi-core-modules-2.6.18-4-ixp4xx-di
- usb-storage-modules-2.6.18-4-ixp4xx-di
- Whatever system you choose to partition your disk, be sure to have at least 128M of swap, I've set up 512M on my 400G drive.
- In total it took about 100 mins to complete
- If you need a console, start a second ssh connection and choose to obtain a shell
- On tasksel, I chose absolutely nothing, I prefer to take only what I need later
After first reboot
- dpkg --get-selections|wc -l
142
- du -hs /
179M
- dmesg:
Linux version 2.6.18-4-ixp4xx (Debian 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12) (waldi@debian.org) (gcc versi on 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)) #1 Tue Mar 27 18:01:56 BST 2007 CPU: XScale-IXP42x Family [690541f1] revision 1 (ARMv5TE), cr=0000397f Machine: Linksys NSLU2 Memory policy: ECC disabled, Data cache writeback On node 0 totalpages: 8192 DMA zone: 8192 pages, LIFO batch:1 CPU0: D VIVT undefined 5 cache CPU0: I cache: 32768 bytes, associativity 32, 32 byte lines, 32 sets CPU0: D cache: 32768 bytes, associativity 32, 32 byte lines, 32 sets Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 8192 Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,115200 rtc-x1205.probe=0,0x6f noirqdebug IRQ lockup detection disabled PID hash table entries: 256 (order: 8, 1024 bytes) Console: colour dummy device 80x30 Dentry cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes) Memory: 32MB = 32MB total Memory: 25780KB available (1948K code, 496K data, 92K init) Calibrating delay loop... 132.71 BogoMIPS (lpj=663552) ...
- hdparm -tT /dev/sda
/dev/sda: Timing cached reads: 86 MB in 2.04 seconds = 42.20 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 28 MB in 3.12 seconds = 8.98 MB/sec
- By default the power button restarts the slug, change the call to shutdown in /etc/inittab:
ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -h now