watch fullscreen or it’s kind of hard to read
backup of the video can be found on youtube
DO NOT CREATE SWAP AS RAID0! (you gonna want more stability and less performance: how to change swap from raid0 to raid1)
follow this guide to get full blown Debian on your kirkwood QNAP NAS:
http://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/qnap/ts-219/install/
1. hook your QNAP NAS to your DHCP-enabled LAN
2. use QFinder to find the IP, configure it as you normally would
3. ssh into it and backup firmware installed to usb stick:
cd /share/external/sdi
cat /dev/mtdblock0 > mtd0;
cat /dev/mtdblock1 > mtd1;
cat /dev/mtdblock2 > mtd2;
cat /dev/mtdblock3 > mtd3;
cat /dev/mtdblock4 > mtd4;
cat /dev/mtdblock5 > mtd5;
cd ..
umount /share/external/sdi1;
4. download the firmware:
cd /tmp;
busybox wget http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/installer-armel/current/images/kirkwood/network-console/qnap/ts-219/initrd.gz
busybox wget http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/installer-armel/current/images/kirkwood/network-console/qnap/ts-219/kernel
busybox wget http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/installer-armel/current/images/kirkwood/network-console/qnap/ts-219/flash-debian
busybox wget http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/installer-armel/current/images/kirkwood/network-console/qnap/ts-219/model
5. run the setup
sh flash-debian
Updating MAC address…
Your MAC address is 00:08:9B:8C:xx:xx
Writing debian-installer to flash… done.
Please reboot your QNAP device.
Once the command has completed, you can reboot your QNAP device:
reboot
exit
6. wait for long beep after reboot , re ssh into it:
ssh installer@192.168.1.123
pwd: install
7. continue your normal debian setup and smile 🙂
you don’t have all the overkill QNAP iTunes-Server software on it anymore…
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