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==Partitioning==
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I'm a newbie to Kurobox Pro, little experienced in Linux. I followed this guide and was able to install the Armel Debian. I don't have a serial port yet and manipulated the environment variables using nvram command. I now want to have the netcat enabled so that I can play around while booting.
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You could pretty much follow this guide keystroke for keystroke to do it.  It is suggested that you read the man pages for fdisk & read up on it, as well.
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Is there a updated uboot that I can use to flash for this box?
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$ fdisk /dev/'''sda'''
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Command (m for help): '''n'''
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== Please post in Forum ==
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Command action
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Please post your question in the Forum
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    p  primary partition (1-4)
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http://buffalo.nas-central.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=5736&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=285
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'''p'''
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Partition number (1-4): '''1'''
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To answer your question I would NOT do it this way. You really REALLY should to solder in a header for serial console access before attempting to do this.   However I am interested to know how you did this without serial console access? There was some talk of a netconsole enabled uboot on the forums as well: http://buffalo.nas-central.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=9781
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First cylinder (1-30401, default 1): '''<enter>''' Using default value 1
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Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1-30401, default 30401): '''+100MB'''
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[[User:Ramuk|Ramuk]] 00:13, 1 August 2008 (BST)
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Command (m for help): '''n'''
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  '''p'''
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Partition number (1-4): '''2'''
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First cylinder (124-30401, default 124): '''<enter>''' Using default value 124
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Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (124-30401, default 30401): '''+10GB'''
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'''e'''
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Partition number (1-4): '''4'''
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First cylinder (1341-30401, default 1341): '''<enter>''' Using default value 1341
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'''l'''
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First cylinder (1341-30401, default 1341): Using default value 1341
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Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1341-30401, default 30401): '''+512MB'''
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First cylinder (1404-30401, default 1404): '''<enter>''' Using default value 1404
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The default type of partition is Ext3 (83), so we only need to change the type on partition 5, to Swap (82).
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Command (m for help): t
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Partition number (1-7): 5
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Hex code (type L to list codes): 82
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Changed system type of partition 5 to 82 (Linux swap)
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Write the partitions to the hard drive.
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Command (m for help): w
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The partition table has been altered!
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Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table
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Latest revision as of 23:22, 31 July 2008

I'm a newbie to Kurobox Pro, little experienced in Linux. I followed this guide and was able to install the Armel Debian. I don't have a serial port yet and manipulated the environment variables using nvram command. I now want to have the netcat enabled so that I can play around while booting.

Is there a updated uboot that I can use to flash for this box?

Please post in Forum

Please post your question in the Forum http://buffalo.nas-central.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=5736&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=285

To answer your question I would NOT do it this way. You really REALLY should to solder in a header for serial console access before attempting to do this. However I am interested to know how you did this without serial console access? There was some talk of a netconsole enabled uboot on the forums as well: http://buffalo.nas-central.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=9781

Ramuk 00:13, 1 August 2008 (BST)

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