Re: SS4000E - partitions restoration [was: Re: SS4000E install problem]

2015-11-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 11:17 PM, JF Straeten wrote: > From this same thread, Jessie seems to be uninstallable on this Nas : > there is no suitable kernel anymore. I wonder if jessie userland works with the wheezy kernel. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Re: SS4000E - partitions restoration [was: Re: SS4000E install problem]

2015-11-13 Thread JF Straeten
Hi Craig, On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 07:33:26AM -0500, craig guest wrote: [...] > the y modem transfer. I managed to get debian installed on it and > have it auto start. It seems top be functioning well. Running > squeeze Congrats ! Nice to read this ;) [...] > I saw earlier in the thread about

Re: SS4000E - partitions restoration [was: Re: SS4000E install problem]

2015-11-13 Thread craig guest
Hi all I had a chance to play some more with this unit again last night. I was able to successfully restore all partitions but one, partition 8 vendor. >From what I have learned this is the file system. It kept failing during the y modem transfer. I managed to get debian installed on it and have i

Re: SS4000E - partitions restoration [was: Re: SS4000E install problem]

2015-11-12 Thread craig guest
Hi Jfs, Bob I believe that what Bob has suggested is working. I have not restored the vendor partition yet. I ran out of time. I think the vendor is the file system. It partially boots abs then kernel panic sets in which is more than it has done in a long time. I have been writing notes as I go th

Re: SS4000E - partitions restoration [was: Re: SS4000E install problem]

2015-11-12 Thread JF Straeten
Hi Bob and Craig, On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 01:51:58AM +, Bob Stewart wrote: [...] > So, if the lengths of your files are in this order, then you should > be good to go.  (Decimal lengths: File 0 = 262144, etc: 131072, > 262144, 131072, 2097152, 4194304, 25090112, 524288, 4096).  You > would

Re: SS4000E - partitions restoration [was: Re: SS4000E install problem]

2015-11-11 Thread Bob Stewart
e would have the bootloader etc for Debian Wheezy. Bob From: craig guest To: debian-arm@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2015 6:46 PM Subject: Re: SS4000E install problem Hi Bob, JFS, TheoThank you all for your insight. I had started trying to do what Bob was describ

Re: SS4000E install problem

2015-11-11 Thread craig guest
Hi Bob, JFS, Theo Thank you all for your insight. I had started trying to do what Bob was describing. It looked like I was moving in the right direction. My next issue was that the backups I was using were named block0 and so on. I was unsure of the correlation between the files named block and mt

Re: SS4000E install problem

2015-11-11 Thread JF Straeten
Hi Bob, On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 10:39:18PM +, Bob Stewart wrote: [...] > Name  FLASH addr  Mem addr    Length  Entry point > RedBoot   0xF000  0xF000  0x0004  0x > RedBoot config    0xF1FC  0xF1FC  0x1000  0x > FIS directory  

Re: SS4000E - partitions restoration [was: Re: SS4000E install problem]

2015-11-11 Thread JF Straeten
Hi Craig, On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 05:09:50PM -0500, craig guest wrote: > Thank you for your help so far. I do not have a copy of the original > boot cd, never did. I am not sure if it would work because the > rammode partition is not there and that is what brings up the > network I believe. If

Re: SS4000E install problem

2015-11-11 Thread Bob Stewart
w.ecoscentric.com/ecospro/doc/html/ref/flash-image-system.html" You can find the syntax for the redboot commands at "www.ecos.sourceware.org/docs-2.0/ref/common-commands.html". Disclaimer: I have no relationship with sourceware or ecos or any of that.  I just found them during a search.

Re: SS4000E - partitions restoration [was: Re: SS4000E install problem]

2015-11-11 Thread craig guest
Hi JF Thank you for your help so far. I do not have a copy of the original boot cd, never did. I am not sure if it would work because the rammode partition is not there and that is what brings up the network I believe. If someone has the original cd I'd love to give it a try. I cannot perform any

SS4000E - partitions restoration [was: Re: SS4000E install problem]

2015-11-11 Thread JF Straeten
Hi Craig, On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 04:13:22PM -0500, craig guest wrote: > Sorry if I'm seen as hijacking this thread but haven't see this much > activity on an ss4000e in a long time. Indeed, but I don't see how this prevent the creation of a new thread :-) > Mine has been on a shelf for a lo

Re: SS4000E install problem

2015-11-11 Thread craig guest
Hi All Sorry if I'm seen as hijacking this thread but haven't see this much activity on an ss4000e in a long time. Mine has been on a shelf for a long time. I performed an fis init -f on it and have lost all my partitions except for Redboot Redboot config fis directory I have a backup copy of al

Re: SS4000E install problem

2015-11-11 Thread JF Straeten
Hi Bob, On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 06:28:07PM +, Bob Stewart wrote: > It's not a matter of wanting to reinstall. It's a matter of wanting > to know what's wrong.  I tried all three of the wheezy images and I > was unable to do an install with it.  It gets to some point, can't > remember the ve

Re: SS4000E install problem

2015-11-11 Thread Bob Stewart
;t run at that temp unless the case is off.  And my fan doesn't run at a reduced speed as far as I can tell.  It's either fully on or fully off. Bob From: JF Straeten To: debian-arm@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2015 12:14 PM Subject: Re: SS4000E install probl

Re: SS4000E install problem

2015-11-11 Thread JF Straeten
Hi Bob, On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 04:49:06PM +, Bob Stewart wrote: [...] > So, if someone could point me to the files used to install wheezy > directly, I'd appreciate it. Do you mean that you prefer to reinstall from wheezy directly ? If so, why ? > Here's a copy of my /etc/fancontrol fi

Re: SS4000E install problem

2015-11-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 12:49 AM, Bob Stewart wrote: > I'm a bit confused about the use of the term "squeezy" in this thread. > Squeeze and Wheezy are two different releases, aren't they?. squeezy is a common typo, I think people mean squeeze but get confused because of the spelling of wheezy. >

Re: SS4000E install problem

2015-11-10 Thread Bob Stewart
re, but I understand that there are patches out there somewhere that someone has already created. Bob From: JF Straeten To: debian-arm@lists.debian.org Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2015 6:56 AM Subject: Re: SS4000E install problem Re, On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 09:01:38AM +0100, Tho

Re: SS4000E install problem

2015-11-10 Thread JF Straeten
Re, On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 09:01:38AM +0100, Thosleaf Thos wrote: [...] > I would be interested also on those notes, if you don't mind. I > managed to isntall squeezy on my SS4000e, but now I'm unable to > install and proper make to work the sensors area, Any help in that > direction wopuld be

Re: SS4000E install problem

2015-11-10 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 9:00 AM, Paul wrote: > I would like a copy of your notes if you find them. > I have a couple of SS4000E I would like to do something with! I'd encourage you to put them on the wiki under here: https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.

Re: SS4000E install problem

2015-11-10 Thread Thosleaf Thos
Hi all. I would be interested also on those notes, if you don't mind. I managed to isntall squeezy on my SS4000e, but now I'm unable to install and proper make to work the sensors area, Any help in that direction wopuld be appreciated! :D Thanks and best regards. 2015-11-10 2:38 GMT+01:00 JF Str

Re: SS4000E install problem

2015-11-09 Thread JF Straeten
Hello Paul, On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 07:00:08PM -0600, Paul wrote: [...] > I would like a copy of your notes if you find them. Yes, I found them :-) (Will be mailed in private to not bother the list.) But be carefull to not brick your Nas... > I have a couple of SS4000E I would like to do so

Re: SS4000E install problem

2015-11-09 Thread Paul
Hello JF I would like a copy of your notes if you find them. I have a couple of SS4000E I would like to do something with! Thanks Paul pmcn...@cameron.net On 11/9/2015 6:51 PM, JF Straeten wrote: Hi Bob, On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 08:30:54PM +, Bob Stewart wrote: Hi JF, Did you install dir

Re: SS4000E install problem

2015-11-09 Thread JF Straeten
Hi Bob, On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 08:30:54PM +, Bob Stewart wrote: > Hi JF, > Did you install directly from initrd.gz/zImage, or did you do an > upgrade install from Squeeze? Yes, it was an upgrade from squeeze (and before that from lenny, installed when lenny was testing if I remember good

Re: SS4000E install problem

2015-11-09 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Bob Stewart [2015-11-06 05:55]: > Is there any sort of group/mailing list for those of us who have this running? This mailing list (debian-arm) is the best one. There are some other people running Debian on their SS4000-E (but I'm not one of them, so I cannot answer any questions). > Also, is

Re: SS4000E install problem

2015-11-08 Thread Bob Stewart
OK, thanks.  I missed that. From: JF Straeten To: debian-arm@lists.debian.org Sent: Sunday, November 8, 2015 5:45 PM Subject: Re: SS4000E install problem On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 07:35:19AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sun, 2015-11-08 at 23:19 +, Bob Stewart wr

Re: SS4000E install problem

2015-11-08 Thread JF Straeten
On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 07:35:19AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sun, 2015-11-08 at 23:19 +, Bob Stewart wrote: > > > That's the real problem.  There was an announcement that support for > > the SS4000E was being dropped following squeeze.  I think that it had > > something to do with the CPU:

Re: SS4000E install problem

2015-11-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 2015-11-08 at 23:19 +, Bob Stewart wrote: > That's the real problem.  There was an announcement that support for > the SS4000E was being dropped following squeeze.  I think that it had > something to do with the CPU: maybe the lack of a coprocessor.  There > is no installer for the iop

Re: SS4000E install problem

2015-11-08 Thread Bob Stewart
Bob From: Paul Wise To: Bob Stewart Cc: "debian-arm@lists.debian.org" Sent: Sunday, November 8, 2015 5:01 PM Subject: Re: SS4000E install problem On Sun, 2015-11-08 at 17:08 +, Bob Stewart wrote: > I understand your concern, Paul.  But the reality is that any > net

Re: SS4000E install problem

2015-11-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 2015-11-08 at 17:08 +, Bob Stewart wrote: > I understand your concern, Paul.  But the reality is that any > networked appliance that loses security support is in the same > position. From that viewpoint, the SS4000E should be junked because > the OEM stopped supporting it some time ago

Re: SS4000E install problem

2015-11-08 Thread Bob Stewart
net access, the risks are extremely small for my new SS4000. Bob From: Paul Wise To: Bob Stewart Cc: "debian-arm@lists.debian.org" Sent: Sunday, November 8, 2015 6:31 AM Subject: Re: SS4000E install problem On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 3:37 AM, Bob Stewart wrote: > I

Re: SS4000E install problem

2015-11-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 3:37 AM, Bob Stewart wrote: > I'm trying to install debian squeeze onto an Intel SS4000E. BTW, Debian squeeze is end-of-life (no security support) on ARM-based devices including the Intel SS4000E. I suggest you upgrade to jessie if you can or disconnect the machine from the

Re: SS4000E install problem

2015-11-05 Thread Bob Stewart
To: Bob Stewart Cc: "debian-arm@lists.debian.org" Sent: Thursday, November 5, 2015 9:02 PM Subject: Re: SS4000E install problem * Bob Stewart [2015-11-05 19:37]: > I apologize if this is the wrong list. If so, please direct me > elsewhere.  I'm trying to install debian

Re: SS4000E install problem

2015-11-05 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Bob Stewart [2015-11-05 19:37]: > I apologize if this is the wrong list. If so, please direct me > elsewhere. I'm trying to install debian squeeze onto an Intel > SS4000E.  Things work OK until it tries to install "bootstrap-base", > which it can't find regardless of which mirror I try.  I've t

SS4000E install problem

2015-11-05 Thread Bob Stewart
I apologize if this is the wrong list. If so, please direct me elsewhere. I'm trying to install debian squeeze onto an Intel SS4000E.  Things work OK until it tries to install "bootstrap-base", which it can't find regardless of which mirror I try.  I've tried several versions of initrd.gz and zIm