A little more research at my end yields that Cavium do include Debian on their SDK. "Cavium ships a Debian root filesystem in its SDK" - http://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/Cavium_SOC Only problem is that you're unlikely to get it off them, for free. I suspect Seagate will have had the SDK in developing the board ... Might be worth emailing Cavium ... but I'm sceptical you'by DonCharisma - Debian
Kind share my friend ... good work, sharing helps keep this forum alive :D Be interested to know the make and model of SD cards, and filesystem you're using as I didn't have much luck with flash drives or SD cards ? If you want to share a file, I think DropBox will do a public share ... Cheers DCby DonCharisma - Debian
I've finally had the time and application to try out RAID10,f2 and done enough testing to say that "it works" on GoFlexNet ... but why bother ? RAID0 is potentially fast, but you're f***ed if there's a disk error ... it's basically for performance, not for data you care about like a rootfs or your favourite music ... RAID1 is safe, stores two copies of the databy DonCharisma - Debian
@TOLiS_GR I'm guessing the 72MB is for the absolute core stuff Debian needs to exist ... my Debian installation, with all the packages etc is now running into the GBs ... so you'll probably need some OS storage outside of the NAND if you want OMV and debian that actually does stuff apart from exist ... with the caveat that I tend to keep stuff almost indefinitely, so there's probabby DonCharisma - Debian
That's quite an interesting bit of hardware. I'm sorry I don't know if it's possible or exactly how to do it ... but ... the first thing you'll need to do is get root access, via console of some sort, telnet or ssh ... there's a procedure described here to do it : http://notesabouttech.com/getting-ssh-access-on-a-seagate-business-storage-nas/ Once your "inby DonCharisma - Debian
@bohdi, thanks dude ... but ... I'm using MySQL for the main database and I thought replication same version to same version would be easiest. The GoFlex Net is a slave, so all it has to do is repeat the updates ... will look more into SQLLite, thanks for suggestion. Currently compiling (and fixing bugs) MySQL 5.6.12 on GoFlex Net ... maybe I'll end up with a working executable, fingby DonCharisma - Debian
@Floodo1 the version of rescue I use doesn't have SATA support, so yes you are right a flash drive will be required. As bodhi said, it might just be as simple as a fsck :D Hope you get it sorted ... @bodhi, will have a look at that new u-boot when I get a chance, was wondering about > 2tb drives ... thanks for posting :D Cheers DCby DonCharisma - Debian
PS @TOLiS_GR - if you install Debian on GFN internal NAND, then yes you could use the entire space on the disk. Linux will support reading/writing NTFS disk, although as I recall not recommended for performance. However if you're planning to keep it NTFS so you can easily connect to a windows machine, then might be a good reason for keeping it NTFS. Linux won't do RAID on NTFS, NTFSby DonCharisma - Debian
@bodhi, thanks for answering all the questions :D @IanD, bodhi's had a good try at solving the issue, I hope you can get it sorted. Mainly my experience has been persistence, try everything you can think of, then try what you didn't think of first ... eventually it'll resolve ... but many hours may be expended between A and B I had many issues with flash drives. This is whatby DonCharisma - Debian
dinjo1, I think you may get "kernel too old" problem in installing rescue earlier. I haven't tried installing it earlier and don't have a current project, so unable to confirm. Try having a look at the threads on this forum about rescue system v2 I'm unclear what you are asking about SATA drive. SATA drive can be used connected to SATA port and booted from. I used EXT3by DonCharisma - Debian
Hey Bodhi. Thanks dude, I'll give that a try when I get a minute. The remake of the image file is necessary to incorporate the extra variable ? Cheers Don Charisma & Don Charismaby DonCharisma - Debian
enki, bodhi I know is an "expert" in these parts, so I reckon he knows what he's talking about. I've tried to install Ubuntu on SD memory card before and that didn't work out too well. I thought I'd broken the memory card, but when I formatted it back on FAT/FAT32 it was fine. I read somewhere that SD cards are designed to work FAT formatted and don't likeby DonCharisma - Debian
BigRon, wheezy isn't officially supported on OMV before 0.6, so you can try and do it yourself, but you're on your own I'm afraid. I'm fairly sure it's possible, bust just watch out for collectd buggering up your booting. My system runs about 30Mb RAM usage on idle. I didn't find any performance advantage Ubuntu -> GoFlex Net on NFS, so reverted to Sambaby DonCharisma - Debian
Reposted from http://DonCharisma.com Hey maihoaomv, Don't worry about posting in multiple places, the info for this is very much distributed anyway and no one would blame:) Interestingly I had the *exact* same problem with OMV 0.5 in my attempt to install. In short the conclusion I came to was that it isn't at this moment compatible with armel. ie I gave in, in favour of a workby DonCharisma - Debian
My pleasure, happy it's useful:)by DonCharisma - Debian
This is posted on my blog, but thought it would be useful here too. Here's the link on my blog - http://doncharisma.org/2013/09/22/build-your-own-pro-nas-seagate-goflex-net-with-debian-linux-raid1-and-openmediavault/ Thanks to all the guys here for maintaining the forum and all of the invaluable information posted here, without it, I wouldn't have been able to do this:) Cheers, Doby DonCharisma - Debian
Guys, I've just finished my how-to for GoFlex Net, will post here just soon as possible ..., for now the link is http://doncharisma.com/2013/09/22/build-your-own-pro-nas-seagate-goflex-net-with-debian-linux-raid1-and-openmediavault/ Cheers Don Charisma http://DonCharisma.comby DonCharisma - Debian
I've just completed my project to get my GoFlex Net running Debian using davygravy's rootfs (thank you davygravy, it's a neat rootfs that's reliable and works well). I will post about my experiences and things I learnt later. I wanted to get some visual feedback from the device and the 8 big LEDs on the GoFlex Net were not doing anything so why not. Looking around at what oby DonCharisma - Debian