SYNOLOGY DS 108j

My second try to get a NAS for backups and a music fileserver.

Original firmware: DSM 2.0-0640.

some basic system info:


  * backing up possible via rsync from linux, mac os x, and windows
  * based on mpc8241 PowerPC processor with 32 MB of physical memory
  * ssh & telnet access possible (even for admin)
  * user admin has root privileges
  * web administration interface runs on port 5000 (redirected from 80)
  * standard shell is 'ash', busybox used for most management commands

  hostname> uname -a
  Linux hostname 2.4.22-uc0 #639 Sat Jun 21 00:38:09 CST 2008 ppc unknown

  
after installation of a hard drive, it splices disk into a two partitions:

/dev/hda1    2.3G    in size mounted on  / -- which is system disk
/dev/hda3    the rest, which is for files, mounted on /volume1

although the system drive is 2.3 GB, only a tiny part (183MB) is occupied
by the system. 




Firmware update available 
at synology site.

"Firmware" (=system) upgrade is smooth, mac os x users can have a tiny
problem, when extracting the upgrade (.pat) file from an .zip archive in
finder -- the decompressor starts to extract even the .pat file and delete
it as an "intermediate", cancel the operation after the .pat is extracted.


hostname> uname -a
Linux hostname 2.4.22-uc0 #844 Tue Apr 21 22:47:38 CST 2009 ppc unknown



to install binary packages is necessary to install an ipkg bootstrap

then you can install package optware-devel, which is basicly all the
stuff needed to compile your own software (make etc...) 

both the processes are fairly described in project's wiki

hostname> cd /volume1/@tmp
hostname> wget http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/ds101g/cross/stable/ds101-bootstrap_1.0-4_powerpc.xsh 

hostname> sh ds101-bootstrap_1.0-4_powerpc.xsh
// installs ipkg

hostname> ipkg list
// gives list of all binary packages available


hostname> ipkg install tcsh
// you can then also install yours favourite tools

hostname> ipkg install optware-devel
// installs optware tools for compiling from source



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