Unslinging a NSLU2 – a few comments for beginners

November 20th, 2007 | 3 Comments | Tagged as , ,

NSLU2 and WD My Book Premium Edition 500 GBIt doesn’t need to be emphasized more that to read http://www.nslu2-linux.org/ is a complete must for everyone who would like to experiment with updating the original Linksys firmware of a NSLU2 device. Especially, the community rules and and the (extensive) set of warnings should be read and understood before descending into countless Howto’s. I’m grateful to all folks who contributed with all the information – following the steps and Howto’s I unslung my NSLU2 with Unslung-6.8-beta-firmware without problems. I have only experienced two minor issues and would like to mention them here just in case some NSLU2 beginner (like myself) comes across the same.

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Fedora 8: select the repositories carefully

November 15th, 2007 | 6 Comments | Tagged as ,

A week ago, I installed Fedora 8, from scratch. The installation went fine, I customized the system to my liking, using the default GUI. After a week, however, I could not initialize an X session anymore. And the problem occurred straight after I downloaded the package updates as the system prompted me to do.

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