NAS-Central & Foonas Weblog

A new tutorial on installing Tinky on your MRT NAS cleanly is now available as the MRT Communications wiki here. In addition a CTorrent web interface package is now available too in the Tinky-LS repository – read on here for more information!

A version of the Tinky firmware for dual HDD MRT NAS devices (Tinky-LS) has been released – for more information on the Tinky firmwares read this article at the MRT wiki.

Take a look at the Wiki Syntax Cheatsheet. This feature is very helpful for editors.

ddodgers confirmed in this post that the cs05q3armel-optware feed (which was initially setup for the Maxtor shared storage II and works on several boxes based on the same board by marvell) is also working on the Linkstation Pro Duo . Anyone with a Linkstation Pro DUO can follow this instructions to bootstrap.

EDIT: the optware packages were also reported to work on the Linkstation EZ!

Now we have two new subwikis:

• HP Devices
• WesternDigital Devices

Both links are added on the navigation bar on the right.

All Users that own a Netgear NAS look at

• Netgear Devices
  

Its linked on the right side like everything else.

nas-central.org today launched their new portal. Previously nas-central was a union of several Buffalo device specific hacking communities, but as of today the nas-central team are creating dedicated spaces for most of the major manufacturers of embedded Linux based devices, including:

• Buffalo
• D-Link
• Iomega
• Lacie
• Linksys
• Maxtor
• Synology
• QNAP
• Thecus
• Zyxel

If you own an embedded Linux based NAS by one of these manufacturers you can help the effort by clicking one of the links above and documenting your device. Also the nas-central team are happy to add support for new manufacturers, hit the nas-central forum with your requests!

Just before the maintainance we added 2 new wikis for zyxel and thecus NAS-devices.

• Thecus Devices
• Zyxel Devices

Remember that all wikis are editable anonymously, but in case we have to turn that off you only need to register once in the forum at http://forum.nas-central.org and you can login in all wikis with your forum user/pass.

foonas.org is currently conducting a donation drive to obtain new development hardware. The network used for developing and testing foonas has run out of ethernet ports, and we are seeking to alleviate that problem temporarily and support a new NAS device at the same time by purchasing some Thecus N1200s, a NAS device with a built in switch.

Hit the foonas donations page to donate by paypal, thanks for helping foonas!

The foonas team are proud to announce the first stable release of foonas-em (and indeed the first official release from foonas.org) for PowerPC based Linkstation and Kurobox NAS devices. The foonas-em firmware for these platforms replaces existing vendor and third party firmwares and includes the following features no other in flash firmware provides:

• Linux 2.6.23.12 in flash
• XFS support and well as ext2 and ext3
• Busybox 1.8.2 with a reasonable set of commands
• vsftpd
• Support for editing u-boot configuration from Linux
• Browser based installation of supported OS (currently Gentoo and foonas)

More information on foonas-em can be found via the main foonas portal. Support for other devices is in progress, updates for these will appear as soon as various platform specific issues have been worked out. We hope you enjoy the improvements in this new firmware. Hit the comments and let us know what you think and happy new year from foonas!