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Debian NSLU2 post-install part 1

After installing Debian NSLU2 on usb thumbdrive, there are still a few things to do before I got a fully functional slug ready to be adapted to do whatever I wanted. First boot By default, the slug will beep three times to signal that the boot has been completed and the slug is ready for [...]

Posted 12 August 2008 § Hacking Linksys NSLU2 ‡ Comments (22) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

Disk data dump

I learn this trick when looking for a way to backup an usb thumbdrive. However, I am pretty sure this method will work for any type of disks. Write zeros to unused spaces before dumping First thing to do is write zeros to unused spaces in the disk. We do this to improve compressibility of [...]

Posted 08 August 2008 § Ubuntu Linux ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , ,