After a flash drive crash I wanted to re-install Debian 5 on my NSLU2 however after visiting the authors website I found it’s no longer supported and thus forcing you to install Debian 6 Wheezy. Also you can no longer use the graphical install that we have all become accustomed to but rather manually partition and format your drive then download and extract the base file onto it. I tried it the new way and what a long winded process it is. After getting Debian 6 up and running I found my custom software install script failed at multiple points due previous packages not being available in the new release. I decided to find a way to re-install Debian 5 and this is how I did it.
My Location
68, Eastern Esplanade
N 51°30'57.51", E 0°43'16.99"
My Location
Back in bloody thorpeness to pick kit up but can't get access the the room as there's people having a meeting in it *sigh*
12A, Uplands Rd
N 52°10'52.69", E 1°36'21.98"
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=loc:52.18130%2C01.60611
My Location
Most rediculous work venue yet
12A, Uplands Rd
N 52°10'52.62", E 1°36'21.91"
XBOX 360 RROD
Oh dear looks like my xbox has the dreaded RROD (Red Ring Of Death) I thought it was going to be a problem I had before whereby the AV cable had become dislodged (4 red lights) however it's the dreaded 3 lights indicating the RROD and a hardware problem. I've ordered a repair kit of fleabay so will post up my findings once i;ve got it.
Slackers r us
I can't believe its been so long since I've done an update shame on me.
Today I attempted to view some of my old Demon workmates personal blogs to see what they've been up tto only to find either the domain has expired or there's no content at all. It seems I'm in the minority of people who still run their own personal blog. I have a facebook account but can't remember the last time I updated it. The knowing what someone had for lunch or that their off to the toilet doesn't interest me at all and don't even get me started on the privacy side of things.
I tried twitter and found the letter count too limiting yes I know that its meant to be snippets of what your doing but most of the time you need a bigger canvas.
Maybe I should embrace the change but personally I'm not ready to surcome to the masses quite yet.
Installing Debian Lenny Via USB Flash
On existing Debian machine insert formatted usb flash
dmesg should show something similar to
usb 4-4.4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 8
usb 4-4.4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
scsi4 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb 4-4.4: New USB device found, idVendor=0781, idProduct=5406
usb 4-4.4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
usb 4-4.4: Product: U3 Cruzer Micro
usb 4-4.4: Manufacturer: SanDisk
usb 4-4.4: SerialNumber: 45271013A181B72F
scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access    SanDisk Cruzer          8.01 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
sd 4:0:0:0: [sde] 3907711 512-byte hardware sectors (2001 MB)
sd 4:0:0:0: [sde] Write Protect is off
sd 4:0:0:0: [sde] 3907711 512-byte hardware sectors (2001 MB)
sd 4:0:0:0: [sde] Write Protect is off
sde: sde1
sd 4:0:0:0: [sde] Attached SCSI removable disk
wget http://www.theoutpost.org/downloads/boot.img
zcat boot.img.gz > /dev/sde (where sde is your USB device name which was obtained from the dmesg output)
Now it is a good idea to remove un-plug and plug back in your USB devices so that the new partition table/structure is recognized by the Linux system. I had to do this. This refreshes the drives partition table stored by udev.
mount /dev/sde /mnt/ (replace sde with whatever your dmesg shows)
wget http://www.theoutpost.org/downloads/debian-508-i386-netinst.iso
cp debian-508-i386-netinst.iso /mnt
umount /mnt/sde
That’s it. You have successfully created USB flash installation media. Just plugin the USB stick to the computer on which you would like to install Debian Lenny and set the BIOS to boot from USB stick.
My Location
East Lulworth, Wareham
N 50°38'21.25", W 2°12'30.25"
My Location
N 50°38'04.26", W 2°22'35.10"
Removing timestamp on MD80 clone using flashing
First and for most I did not write this guide it’s one I came across while looking for the solution to timestamp removal. It worked ok first time for me on my MD80 however I take NO responsibility it doesn’t for you and or bricks your camera.
CONTINUE AT YOUR OWN RISK!!
The below content is from http://www.mytempfiles.info/gum/project3.html and is unchanged apart from I have hosted the files myself.