Debian Squeeze on 'V' and 'X' Series (LS-WXL and others)
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Revision as of 20:06, 2 May 2011
Contents |
Credits
This is based on Debian Lenny on LS-CHLv2 and Open Stock Firmware LS-XHL and was published first here [1] by user benoqkuke.
What will you get?
You will not have to open your box (at least not unless you make a fatal mistake)!
You will have a Debian Squeeze userland and the stock Buffalo kernel of your already installed firmware.
So it is not a full replacement of Buffalos firmware, but mostly. ;-)
To have a "complete" Debian Squeeze installation one would need to replace the kernel also. But user benoqkuke hasn't managed to build his own kernel (newer than 2.6.31) yet. So stay tuned, if you want to have a more recent kernel also.
What you need beforehand
You have to be able to use the root account on the NAS.
You can use [2] CHL-v2/XHL 1.37 Mod 1 firmware to do that.
Debootstrap
You need to install debootstrap.
To be able to do this, you need to download the package.
Log on as user root on your box and and execute this:
wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/debootstrap/debootstrap_1.0.30_all.deb dpkg -i debootstrap_1.0.30_all.deb
To install the new rootfs into a directory "debian-squeeze" execute this:
mkdir debian-squeeze debootstrap --verbose --arch armel squeeze debian-squeeze http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian
You may want to select a mirror nearby yourself for faster downloads.
When you see I: Base system installed successfully. the roots FS is almost ready.
Personalize the deboostrap
You need to have some other stuff to be able to boot off the boostrap.
Copy the initrd to the chroot environment:
cp /boot/initrd.buffalo debian-squeeze/tmp
Chroot on Debian Squeeze:
LANG=C chroot debian-squeeze /bin/bash
First of all update the package database to have the correct GPG-keys:
apt-get update
Copy kernel modules from the linkstations initrd to the /lib/module folder:
cd /tmp dd if=initrd.buffalo of=initrd.gz ibs=64 skip=1 gunzip initrd.gz mkdir INITRD mount -t ext2 -o loop initrd INITRD cp -R INITRD/lib/modules/2.6.[3-9]?* /lib/modules/ umount INITRD rmdir INITRD rm initrd*
Configure locale: Suggestion is to install at least the en_US.UTF-8 and your native language locale (e.g. it_IT.UTF-8, de_DE.UTF-8, etc).
apt-get install locales dpkg-reconfigure locales
If apt-get complains that pts isn't accessible: ignore it or mount devpts (mount -t devpts devpts /dev/pts).
Editing /etc/fstab (with vi or nano):
# /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # file system mount point type options dump pass /dev/sda2 / xfs defaults,noatime 0 1 /dev/sda1 /boot ext3 ro,nosuid,nodev 0 2 /dev/sda5 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/sda6 /mnt/disk1 xfs defaults,noatime 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=4,mode=620 0 0 tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
Create disk1 in mnt:
mkdir /mnt/disk1
Edit /etc/network/interfaces to match your LAN configuration.
If you use DHCP, simply request an IP on eth0 an eth1:
# Used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8). See the interfaces(5) manpage or # /usr/share/doc/ifupdown/examples for more information. # We always want the loopback interface. auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp auto eth1 iface eth1 inet dhcp
If you have static IP: Make sure to use the correct interface name, otherwise your Linkstation may boot up but will not get an IP address. Check etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules for this.
# Used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8). See the interfaces(5) manpage or
# /usr/share/doc/ifupdown/examples for more information.
# We always want the loopback interface.
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.1.6
network 192.168.1.0
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.1.1
Set /etc/hostname
echo > /etc/hostname MYNAS
Edit /etc/hosts to resolve your hostname
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 127.0.0.1 MYNAS # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback fe00::0 ip6-localnet ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
Install sshd:
apt-get install --no-install-recommends openssh-server
Change root password:
passwd root
Check that root login is enable in /etc/ssh/sshd_config:
grep PermitRootLogin /etc/ssh/sshd_config
should show a line "PermitRootLogin yes".
Clean up the package database (this reduces the size quite a lot)
aptitude clean
Prepare rootfs:
exit cd debian-squeeze tar --numeric-owner -p -czf ../hddrootfs.buffalo.updated *
Move hddrootfs.buffalo.updated to a folder that you can access from you computer.
Download empty initrd from [3] to your lsupdater folder.
Copy hddrootfs.buffalo.updated to your lsupdater folder.
Remove initrd.img and hddrootfs.img from your lsupdater folder. (If you use 1.37mod1 kernel you just need to replace them when you copy these file)
Add debug options to lsupdate: open LSUpdater.ini and check that Flags and specialflags are set like this:
[Flags] VersionCheck = 0 NoFormatting = 1 [specialflags] debug = 1
Update your NAS, reboot.
Now you are on Debian Squeeze !
If you configured your nas before, some settings should be saved in a tgz file: /boot/conf_save.tgz
After install
Install blstools:
apt-get install smartmontools wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/blstools/releases/blstools-0.2.0.tar.gz tar zxf blstools-0.2.0.tar.gz cd blstools-0.2.0 sudo ./install.sh
Modify /etc/init.d/lsmonitor (the line where HDDTEMP is defined) to:
# Retrieve HDD temp
HDDTEMP=$(smartctl -d marvell /dev/sda --all -T permissive | awk '$1 == "194" {print $10}')
Turn on bootlogging:
# nano /etc/default/bootlogd
BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=yes
Install xfs tools:
# apt-get install xfsprogs
