I got my brand new Linksys NSLU2, yay! I spent half day to read the documentation on
http://www.nslu2-linux.org/ and successfully flashed the firmware and boot the box up from external USB Lacie drive
There is some trouble when I try to usling to the external usb drive. everytime when I boot the box up without usb harddrive, followed the unslung readme to enable the telnet from web, then attached the usb drive, the box won't recognize the usb drive. After reading the
http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/HowTo/T ... gCondition here is the final steps i got it worked:
1, Connect the usb lacie disk to powerbook, and format it as HFS Journal filesystem from disk utility
2, attach the usb drive with the NSLU2 box, power it up
3, format the usb drive with ext3 from web
4, reboot the box
5, enble the telnet from web,
6, telnet to the box using account root and password uNSLUng
7, /sbin/usling -nopw disk2
8, reboot the box, that is it
There is still a mistery that from step 4 and 6. From the usling readme. it says I should always dettach the usb drive before enable the telnet and telnet to NSLU2, otherwise, the password uNSLUng won't work because if the usb drive was attached, the password won't be uNSLUng but the factory password which nobody knows. It seems not true in my case. I am not sure If I can duplicate the same step, and it will work though, as it is painful to do so.