**** BEGIN LOGGING AT Fri Apr 11 02:59:57 2008 Apr 11 03:12:11 Smurf-Slayer: how big you were thinking about then? no, there's no difference between those two Apr 11 03:29:34 If you need more space than that, there's always multiple disks and LVM2. Apr 11 03:32:42 nyef: sounds bit risky though Apr 11 03:34:15 True. If you're hitting addressing limits on hard disk sectors, using any scheme to get around them might run you into limits elsewhere. Apr 11 03:41:33 although I believe slug (when using non-original firmware) has no probs using any modern drive sizes.. Apr 11 05:29:36 I was thinking 500gb... 2 of them... But I keep reading that he limit is 250GB, but that just might be the standard flash? Apr 11 08:11:39 Smurf-Slayer: i have a 750 attached to mine Apr 11 20:19:24 hi, does anyone in here use Debian with luks? Apr 11 20:42:26 :) Apr 11 22:36:52 hi all Apr 11 22:36:53 i am just trying to get debian on my brand new NSLU2 Apr 11 22:37:01 but the installer hooks up Apr 11 22:37:03 the ready/status LED is just alternating orange/green Apr 11 22:37:05 the USB stick (8gb, attached to port 1) doesn't show any lights Apr 11 22:37:18 I cant ping it on any of my DHCP IPs nor on 192.168.1.77 Apr 11 23:08:03 you flashed the debian installer with upslug2? Apr 11 23:24:01 n17ikh, yea, but I figured out why nothing happened Apr 11 23:24:16 ah. Apr 11 23:24:18 I used the latest from http://www.slug-firmware.net/d-dls.php Apr 11 23:24:30 but only the Debian/NSLU2 Stable 4.0r3 seems to work here Apr 11 23:24:50 that one got the ethernet firmware built in? Apr 11 23:25:09 both should Apr 11 23:25:14 wait, never mind Apr 11 23:25:15 course it does Apr 11 23:25:22 but with the 5.0 image the NSLU got stuck in Update Mode Apr 11 23:25:40 I successfully used the 5.0 image the other day Apr 11 23:25:53 via upslug? Apr 11 23:25:56 yeah Apr 11 23:26:07 maybe just a network quirk or something, who knows Apr 11 23:26:22 dunno Apr 11 23:26:31 but one thing was strange about network, yeah Apr 11 23:26:49 as I reflashed the linksys firmware after the broken 5.0 Apr 11 23:26:57 it still remembered all its settings Apr 11 23:27:06 admin password, LAN settings... Apr 11 23:27:16 yeah, that got me too Apr 11 23:27:21 turns out Apr 11 23:27:23 n17ikh, is it possible something went crazy with the flash Apr 11 23:27:25 there's a configuration area on the flash Apr 11 23:27:29 aah Apr 11 23:27:39 the first three dots appearing in upslug2? Apr 11 23:27:41 that doesn't get erased when you write new firmware Apr 11 23:27:46 yeah Apr 11 23:27:51 I think part of that might be the bootloader Apr 11 23:27:58 but it's all right there, yeah Apr 11 23:28:50 kk Apr 11 23:29:01 but i'm happy that its installing now Apr 11 23:29:06 i got an 8gb USB stick here Apr 11 23:29:21 7.5 gb for / and the rest (560mb or so) for swap Apr 11 23:29:41 more swap means more apps are able to run at same time, right? Apr 11 23:29:51 yeah Apr 11 23:29:56 especially on the slug Apr 11 23:30:00 swap is almost mandatory Apr 11 23:30:33 btw, will debian also boot a ultra-small linux if the USB stick isn't present? Apr 11 23:30:41 don't think so Apr 11 23:30:47 and how does it detect which one of the two sticks contains its root fs? Apr 11 23:30:52 it guesses Apr 11 23:30:56 or rather Apr 11 23:31:07 it doesn't guess, it uses whatever's in the fstab Apr 11 23:31:13 gets written to flash as the initramfs Apr 11 23:31:30 but if you have two sticks plugged in there's a partial likelyhood that what was sda might come up as sdb Apr 11 23:31:40 yeah, thats what i mean Apr 11 23:31:52 depends on the hardware, I guess Apr 11 23:32:04 yeah, maybe it's also by default that port1==sda Apr 11 23:32:10 could be Apr 11 23:32:32 do you believe that the slug will be powerful enough to serve as a TV streamer (DVB-T)? Apr 11 23:32:43 if it doesn't have to encode the mpeg stream Apr 11 23:32:59 like, if you can just pull the stream off the disk and throw it on the network Apr 11 23:33:15 that's the question, I dunno what exactly the DVB-USB kernel modules give Apr 11 23:33:17 but if it has to encode the stream or transcode it there's no chance Apr 11 23:33:47 I don't have a clue, there's no DVB in this part of the world Apr 11 23:34:49 oh kk Apr 11 23:34:51 USA? Apr 11 23:35:00 yeah Apr 11 23:35:05 * HardDisk_WP is living in Germany... Apr 11 23:35:12 hell, clock tells me 01:35 Apr 11 23:35:46 guess you could give it a shot Apr 11 23:35:52 lol gn8 Apr 11 23:35:58 thx Apr 11 23:36:00 night Apr 12 00:03:07 HardDisk_WP: Use the tree util to get drive id to use in /etc/fstab Apr 12 00:03:37 It's explained in several of the debain@nslu2 internet pages. Apr 12 00:04:19 Then you won't risk having sda and sdb exchanged on reboot. Apr 12 00:26:31 Or you will, but it won't matter since it will mount correctly anyway. Apr 12 00:59:59 any one chatting Apr 12 02:13:29 dumb question: do you need apex to run SlugOS/BE or SlugOS/LE? Apr 12 02:16:33 no Apr 12 02:16:51 Thanks! Apr 12 02:20:46 Apex is part of the SlugOS image; it is used as a second-stage bootloader. So you get the advantage of Apex, but you don't need to replace the existing redboot loader in the NSLU2. Apr 12 02:34:05 Thanks mwester, looking to do obeseslug but I think Rod is away Apr 12 02:34:50 (got all hardware and fixed RedBoot, now I'd like to try SlugOS/BE from flash) **** ENDING LOGGING AT Sat Apr 12 02:59:56 2008