Richard Bown wrote:
Hi Guys
I'm trying to reduce my energy footprint here, and decide to rub the dust off
an old NSLU2
It did have Deb on it years ago when I got it, but nowhere did I write down the
ssh passwords,
so it was a reflash job.
I just want to use it as a Cups server with just one printer on it.
I see Debian 5 was too big for it, and there is a way of using Debian6 with an
external USB HDD.
which is a bit OTT for just a print server.
In the end I flashed it with SlugOSBE, installed Cups, but it wouldn't run as
it wanted a module
printer.o
Next attempt was to blow the dust off an old Tosh laptop P2, 233Mhz, it had
Debian 6 on it now,
runs slower than the NSLU2 and I still cant get in remotely on port 631, I
removed SElinux incase
that was blocking it, but running headless is awkward unless you know your way
around Debian.
So Plan C
Find an earlier image of Debian 4 that I can flash the beast with an use the
Slug as a print server.
Can anyone assist with a late Debian 4 image , I've hunted and cant find one.
Else its plan D . Throw both away and get something later like a RaspberryPI ( model B).
I'd prefer to give the old junk a few years more life if possible
Thanks
I'm using Slugs with Debian "Lenny" for various jobs here, but recent
installations /might/ turn out tricky since Debian have archived their
repository. The important thing is to not install graphical stuff when
setting them up.
On other architectures, I routinely upgrade Debian to a recent (i.e. v3)
kernel. I've never summoned up the courage for that on a Slug, because
of the difficulty of recovering from a bad kernel in internal Flash.
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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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