is it possible to install armedslack on a icy box IB-NAS6210

gtludwig · 05-18-2011, 07:23 PM

Hi all,

I found this quite amazing piece of hardware while searching for a home NAS.
http://www.icybox.com.tw/page/nsa_pr...ib-nas6210.htm
The only two things I realized it lacks is a bittorrent client and ssh access.
Since it runs a flavour of Linux inside and has a ARM Marvell 6281 processor, I thought it might be a good host for an armedslack and, thus, allow access to all we love about Slackware!

I have googled for a while and found no evidence of this being attempted. So, does anyone has any thought should this be possible or not?

Thanks in advance,
gtludwig

tmfizzle · 05-18-2011, 07:40 PM

It should be able to, follow the steps in the setup for a kirkwood system located here.
ftp://ftp.armedslack.org/armedslack/...L_KIRKWOOD.TXT
Also you may need to upgrade uboot http://http://www.cyrius.com/debian/...t-upgrade.html, and have to use a serial console to edit/upgrade uboot environment variables.

I am currently running a sheevaplug with a 1.2g ARM processor with armedslack 13.37 which I believe is a 6281 series, I will have to check to be certain.

gtludwig · 05-18-2011, 09:09 PM

according to this Wikipedia link about it, SheevaPlug's CPU is a 1.2 GHz ARM Marvell Kirkwood 88F6281, which apparently is the same CPU as the Icy Box's NAS.

baton · 05-19-2011, 04:38 PM

That's indeed interesting topic, but still there is not much information around. If anybody has an experience with hacking this device it would be great to hear about that. Thanks!

tmfizzle · 05-19-2011, 06:13 PM

@gtludwig if you do purchase it, let us know what your outcome is, my guess is that it is kind of equivalent to a dreamplug.

gtludwig · 05-19-2011, 09:15 PM

@tmfizzle, this device being kind of equivalent to a dreamplug was also my first approach to this "problem". Globalscale's DreamPlug plus shipping to Brazil costs about US$210,00. The IB-NAS6210 unit in the UK is about £100,00, since I've family there S&H is zero. My first need it to have a file server / media center online at my home network. I already bought a TP-LINK TL-WR1043ND router to replace a Netgear WiFi router. The WR1043 has only 4 LAN ports, but they're Gigabit. And a 5-8 port Gigabit hub is quite cheaper today than it was an year ago. So, I'll probably buy the IB-NAS6210 unit for my serving needs, will try to install armedslack (which I'm more confident now I found there's a way to backup the original firmware), and will post results. Might take a little time, though!