I picked up a LinkSYS NSLU2 about two weeks ago. This little box is a steal for about $80.00 and is basically used as a fileserver for USB drives. The cool part of the box is that it runs a linux implementation and can be easily “modified” to do some cool things. After unboxing the NSLU2 the first thing I did was install the UnSlung 2.12 firmware .
� �Server Name: fileservah
� �Version: V2.3R25-uNSLUng-standard-2.12-beta
� �IP Address: 192.168.1.77
� �Disk 1: Ready, 115229MB (96% Free)
� �Disk 2/Flash: Not Installed
The setup is fairly easy and all you have to do is follow the readme that comes with the firmware image. Check it out! I’ll keep track of modifications and/or cool stuff I do with it in this catagory.
So, the first things I installed were:
- busybox 1.00-3
- dropbear-0.44test4-1
- rsync_2.6.3-3 – This crapped out:
# ipkg install rsync
Package rsync (2.6.3-3) installed in root is up to date.
Configuring rsync
/opt/bin/rsync: 1: Syntax error: “(” unexpected
postinst script returned status 2
ERROR: rsync.postinst returned 2I’ll look into that later.
- ntp 4.2.0-1
I’m kind of annoyed about the rsync problem because I want to use this as a backup for a few of my machines. I’m going to look into getting AppleTalk working now that I have three Macs in the house.
#1 by Rene on January 1, 2005 - 9:00 pm
I’m waiting for mine to show up (UPS). I found the error you posted mentioned on http://www.nslu2-linux.org, It seems to be a bad build (i86 instead of the ARM code). I think the package was replaced. good luck!
#2 by Eric B. on January 1, 2005 - 9:07 pm
Thanks for the post! I ran the package install again and it worked without a problem. This thing is the best! Good luck with yours. :)