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DSM-G600: Revision 4
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Collection of some hints about Debian installation on my D-Link DSM-G600:

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^ firmware (kernel+busybox)

It will fix various problems, including, but not limited to, problems with web interface in firefox.

http://download.dsmg600.info/people/sala/fwimage-04-sala-20070128

I tried to build firmware from source, but had various problems with building gcc

^ Debian installation

Based on "instructions on wiki"<http://dsmg600.info/howto:chroot_debian> and "post on forum"<http://forum.dsmg600.info/t17-Debian-howto.html>

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cd /mnt/HD_a2
export DEBOOTSTRAP_DIR=`pwd`/usr/lib/debootstrap
export PATH=$PATH:/mnt/HD_a2/bin:/mnt/HD_a2/sbin
./usr/sbin/debootstrap --arch powerpc etch /mnt/HD_a2/debian http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian
cp /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/HD_a2/debian/etc/resolv.conf
# prepare chroot jail
mount -t proc proc /mnt/HD_a2/debian/proc
cd /mnt/HD_a2/
./chroot /mnt/HD_a2/debian /bin/bash
# install additional packages
apt-get update
apt-get install locales
dpkg-reconfigure locales
passwd root
apt-get install dropbear hotplug
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