Without knowing exactly what was installed and what you removed, hard to say really ... plus this is a Debian forum :D Google is your friend for these types of issues, Ubuntu have their own forum and there's plenty of guides for things like removing the GUI. Stack exchange also often has answers to these kinds of questions. I'd have gone with something like this - http://askubuntuby DonCharisma - Debian
@bodhi - thanks my friend much appreciated :) I think we can cross off using a different flash drive, I tried another one with the same problem. Also tried an ext4 partition in the same place on the flash drive, using the same copy (rysnc as per archlinux instructions) method and this boots fine ... Cheersby DonCharisma - Debian
Due to network limitations where I am, I'm not able to download torrents at all. Obviously I'm only needing to download official torrents like Debian/Ubuntu distro CDs, same as the rest of you :) My plan is to setup a seedbox located in UK and access remotely, on my own hardware, a GoFlexNet. So I need a reliable torrent client (server ?), web interface would be a nice to have.by DonCharisma - Debian
LOL ... a bit of catch 22, I'm unlikely to be a contributor without having some of their hardware :) Cheersby DonCharisma - Debian
@Gravelrash - thanks dude ... pretty much cracked the dual partition boot ... f2fs ... another story ! Cheersby DonCharisma - Debian
@Gravelrash - I'm gonna have to throw in the towel for now, I've tried pretty much every avenue and it just boots into an endless reboot loop. And yes know what you mean about other commitments ! Complications are - f2fs-tools doesn't install with apt-get on wheezy, so makes life difficult without jessie. 'tune2fs -L' doesn't work on f2fs ... which makes life cby DonCharisma - Debian
@bodhi, I have it booting off f2fs, but have a problem ... (there are some other complications, which I'll get to later) Current issue I don't know how to resolve is - it's in an endless reboot loop, this is the messages on netconsole : [ 19.367074] console enabled [ 19.370770] netconsole: network logging started [ 20.217765] systemd[1]: systemd 215 running in systby DonCharisma - Debian
@bodhi, always a pleasure, thanks my friend ... I've posted a quick how-to for Jessie and for dual-partition booting :) I'm trying currently to copy my working ext3 rootfs to a f2fs partition ... fingers crossed and it'll boot ... Cheersby DonCharisma - Debian
@leo - thanks for the update ... and good to know OpenMediaVault working on latest kernel and latest OMV distribution ... I don't know if xmlstarlet needed or not ! Cheersby DonCharisma - Debian
@dinjo - afraid that's beyond the limits of my experience or hardware I have available - maybe one of the others here can help ... I don't think there's a great deal of difference between Ubuntu Desktop and Ubuntu Server, aside the user interface. I'm fairly sure that the user interface could be "uninstalled" with apt-get remove ... so probably you could build thaby DonCharisma - Debian
It's my understanding that uboot is limited in the filesystems it will boot from. Older uboot ext2 and ext3, and later ones will boot direct into ext4, I think - so don't quote me on that ! The new f2fs, and RAID can't be directly booted from a single boot/rootfs partition, because of the limitations in uboot - so you'll need a separate boot partition to boot into those filby DonCharisma - Debian
I couldn't find much about Debian Jessie here. I've been using it for sometime on my Intel/AMD machines, because of various problems on Wheezy, like hardware drivers being out-of-date etc etc etc ... Jessie is supposed to be the next release of Debian, and is in my experience fairly stable these days. I've managed to get Jessie booting using bodhi's latest rootfs, kernel 3.by DonCharisma - Debian
@bodhi #grep -i f2fs /boot/config-3.17.*-tld-1 CONFIG_F2FS_FS=y CONFIG_F2FS_STAT_FS=y CONFIG_F2FS_FS_XATTR=y CONFIG_F2FS_FS_POSIX_ACL=y CONFIG_F2FS_FS_SECURITY=y CONFIG_F2FS_CHECK_FS=y But I guess you knew that already :) Does that mean that f2fs is already in the kernel, and no further action necessary to support it (ie no need to rebuild uInitrd) ? And presumably you'reby DonCharisma - Debian
@Gravelrash - I've had a go myself, and got stuck, there's a few issues : f2fs-tools are available in Jessie, but not Wheezy. bodhi's latest 3.17 kernel should support f2fs, I don't know if the tools are needed OR if Jessie will work on GoFlexNet. So I built the flash drive (Sandisk Cruzer Fit) an amd64 system with Jessie on it. /dev/sda1 ext2 or ext3 boot 200M /dev/sdaby DonCharisma - Debian
@Gravelrash - LOL ... I did look on ebay.co.uk for one, but I have no idea which one is best, apparently there's different voltages for serial and different chipsets on the intelligence end of things ... probably ought to get one next time I'm in UK, as would be handy for debugging. And I remember seeing the stereo jack mod for serial, neat ... I think ext3 is probably better than exby DonCharisma - Debian
Out of all the ARM boards I've looked at the Odroids I liked the most - Gigabit ethernet plus powerful CPUs :D The tiny watch sized board I was super impressed with the power for the price ... Odroid W Can't be of any assistance, though, as I don't currently own one ... they provide Ubuntu distros for download ... converting to Debian shouldn't be all that difficult ?by DonCharisma - Debian
Thanks guys, very helpful info :) @bodhi - I hadn't heard of f2fs before, which is a very interesting file system specifically for flash (initially developed by Samsung) ...so thanks ... one day I hope to be as knowledgeable ! My early experiences with USB Flash/SD Cards were mostly negative (as you know) ... however they are far more inexpensive than a hard drive, so for systems thatby DonCharisma - Debian
@rat, that's VERY VERY useful, thanks ... The only brand I had success with is Sandisk ... So I'll give the overprovisioning a try ... I have an 8GB cruzer fit same as yours, so I'll try that first :D 860 days uptime = 2.4 years ... impressive ! Thanks once again, very much appreciated ... Don Charismaby DonCharisma - Debian
I want to have another go with flash USB stick or SD cards. I had some pretty bad experiences in the past and prefer hard drive booting and operation. However bohdi seems to think it's doable with USB flash memory - and he knows more than me for sure ! I'm wondering if anyone has tried overprovisioning a USB SD card or flash drive. Overprovisioning basically means partitioning leavinby DonCharisma - Debian
Hey Bodhi, sorry if I'm still asking noob questions, but that's life, learning takes time ! I'm assuming you're booting with a NFS attached file system from the link given ... are you doing any process migration and using the compute power pooled somehow, and if so it'd be interesting to know how your doing it ? I looked into the Beowulf type setups and virtualisatiby DonCharisma - Debian
There's a Cavium SDK3 which is based around 3.4 kernel, and Debian is included ... Ubiquiti users seemed to have some success obtaining it last year - http://community.ubnt.com/t5/EdgeMAX/getting-the-SDK-from-Cavium/td-p/506305 Cheers Dby DonCharisma - Debian
PS Also of note is the pcDuino - I like for instance the look of their Nano because has SATA and GbE adapter AND 4GB flash/2GB RAM - http://www.linksprite.com/?page_id=815 ... Cheers Dby DonCharisma - Debian
Thanks very kind ... I try and get as much detail in as possible when I do one of these ... hopefully might encourage others to take on relatively complex processes such as compiling their own stuff :) Good idea with the dropbox ... dropbox will give you an extra 1GB for free if you use their mail app on your ipad/iphone ... I did this already ! Speak soon Cheers Dby DonCharisma - Debian
Been looking around further "afield" ... I like the look of the ODRIOD stuff, seemingly very high spec at low cost ... really like the idea of the ODRIOD-W which is TINY, like watch size and more powerful thank a Rasperry PI ... Cubietruck is also on my list ... Beaglebone ... and a few others ... Like the multiprocessor solution on some of the ARM boards with 8 cores, and the BIG pby DonCharisma - Debian
@Almaz, I'm running Wheezy now too :) thanks for confirming the install on Wheezy ... @leo you need to change the arcNumber to 3089 ... The reason the SATA isn't working I think is that 2097 is probably a Pogoplug that doesn't have a SATA port ! 3089 is the arcNumber for GoFlexNet (can be looked up on kernel.org I think) Cheers Dby DonCharisma - Debian
My experience was that for a Windows client - Samba was easier to setup and faster ... what I've started doing recently is mounting the shares on the linux end, which seems to use less resources on the linux device ... the mount uses cifs, and obviously no nfs with linux as the client :D And I think gravelrash is almost certainly right better performance is likely on linux to linux with nby DonCharisma - Debian
Thanks for the clarification, makes sense now :) ... AES I believe Seagate are using for disk encryption ... And yes, same, that's the extent of my testing for now ... Cheers DCby DonCharisma - Debian
@Almaz - Not exactly following what you mean with dropping the hashing flag ? My understanding was that the DIGESTs flag was to persuade openssl to actually use cryptodev for encryption :D @ALL ... I've put together some rough test results. I can't get my non-cryptodev machine non-loaded on CPU because I have a long running process I'm not going to pause/stop. From what I undersby DonCharisma - Debian
Good work and nice results, persistence pays off ... mine are fairly similar ... the slower speeds with cryptodev on smaller byte sizes I think are due to an overhead in the process' setup ... where the numbers were almost identical I assumed that the the hardware wasn't being used ... AES is extremely fast, I believe that's used by Seagate for disk encryption, from reading theiby DonCharisma - Debian
That's the error openssl throws up when you specify an engine it doesn't recognise ... try this : openssl engine Almaz What I think is happening there is that openssl may have the ability to dynamically plug in a new engine, provided there's a compatible libAlmaz.so file available ... .so is a shared object like a dll file on Windows ... don't bother looking for libby DonCharisma - Debian