Hello All:
This is my first post on here in a long while. So bear with me as I have to put up corresponding Readouts and such for you to look at.
I have a Buffalo Terastation III TS-X4.0TL/R5 (Sakura) and it has the latest Buffalo FW (1.71 at this writing....)
It's a 4 bay Sata II NAS drive, which I have upgraded to take 3 TB Hitachi Drives. (Hey It worked)
But what I REALLY want to do, is rip out the stock OS, and replace it with Debian.
I have a USB<->DB9 Serial cable, which will hook into the front of this sucker, but I have no idea how to use it.
I have been trying to follow KOLIOS' insructions for when he upgraded his Terasation DUO as it seems to be using the same board.
https://web.archive.org/web/20111013194749/http://www.kolios.dk:80/2009/09/07/howto-install-a-debian-from-scratch-on-a-buffalo-terastation-duo-2/
but when I get into chroot, and do the next instruction, everything fails.....and I have to go back into Windows and run TSUPDATER and put everything back into stock again.....and I'm just frustated. I've got 12 TB of HARD DRIVE SPACE I can't use right now, because the OS sucks, and I really want to run Debian on this sucker to get latest and greatest.
Honestly I think I should rip out the motherboard and the Sata Daughtercard and get a PI with a sata port, a 1 to 4 Sata port multiplier, and go on from there.....I don't know.
As is this is my first post, being a cry for help, or a rant, as you choose to interpret. I don't have anything else to post up, but I will soon.
Ok, that's my post for now, thank you again.
This is my first post on here in a long while. So bear with me as I have to put up corresponding Readouts and such for you to look at.
I have a Buffalo Terastation III TS-X4.0TL/R5 (Sakura) and it has the latest Buffalo FW (1.71 at this writing....)
It's a 4 bay Sata II NAS drive, which I have upgraded to take 3 TB Hitachi Drives. (Hey It worked)
But what I REALLY want to do, is rip out the stock OS, and replace it with Debian.
I have a USB<->DB9 Serial cable, which will hook into the front of this sucker, but I have no idea how to use it.
I have been trying to follow KOLIOS' insructions for when he upgraded his Terasation DUO as it seems to be using the same board.
https://web.archive.org/web/20111013194749/http://www.kolios.dk:80/2009/09/07/howto-install-a-debian-from-scratch-on-a-buffalo-terastation-duo-2/
but when I get into chroot, and do the next instruction, everything fails.....and I have to go back into Windows and run TSUPDATER and put everything back into stock again.....and I'm just frustated. I've got 12 TB of HARD DRIVE SPACE I can't use right now, because the OS sucks, and I really want to run Debian on this sucker to get latest and greatest.
Honestly I think I should rip out the motherboard and the Sata Daughtercard and get a PI with a sata port, a 1 to 4 Sata port multiplier, and go on from there.....I don't know.
As is this is my first post, being a cry for help, or a rant, as you choose to interpret. I don't have anything else to post up, but I will soon.
Ok, that's my post for now, thank you again.