NSLU2 Debian Installed

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The installer completed successfully after around 5 hours.

I’m now going through the painful process of getting everything back up and running, but I’m making notes as I go and I’ll post these here when I get the chance. There’s loads of good debian NSLU2 information out there – some has been invaluable!

NSLU2 Hard Drive Crash

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My main 500GB hard drive that was plugged into the slug decided to stop working last week  causing my slug to freeze and crash on every reboot.

I’ve purchased a new hard disk and have begun installing Debian onto the NSLU2 – I’ll keep you posted 🙂

Debian Installer

Life after the slug

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I was wondering how I’d cope if my slug suddenly gave up the go, and have been considering some alternatives for the past couple of months.

The best of these so far seems to be to get an Asus EEE Box, remove windows and replace with a linux distro, probably Ubuntu or Gentoo though I’ve also been considering whether or not I’d install a console only flavour of unix and carry on using it as a server only.

The EEE-Box…

Eee-Box

is low powered, reasonably priced and isn’t too large – seems a viable alternative when my Slug finally goes.  Hopefully it’s got some life left just yet, though I do make it work hard 😉

NSLU2 DNS Server

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I’m toying with the idea of installing dnsmasq on my NSLU2… I don’t want the DHCP part as I’d rather leave my router doing that but I like the idea of having the DNS stuff running now there are a few machines on my LAN.

It’s a pain managing multiple host files..

If I take the plunge – I’ll report back 🙂