how to install lacie firmware on 5big V2
Download the rar archive attached and unpack it, you will need the files inside
Install fvdw-sl console on your pc running windows (see download topic of this forum to get the fvdw-sl console package)
switch off 5big2 be sure it is connected to the LAN (ip range of dhcp server must be (192.168.1.xxx or 192.168.0.xxx)
system disk is sda (installed in first slot of 5big2) only one disk installed
start fvdw-sl console
Load standalone kernel (kirkwood-standalone) via fvdw-sl console (help see fvdw-sl help menu)
start 5big2 when the fvdw-sl console windows is displaying "waiting for u-boot" (see help fvdw-sl console)
Log in with tel net client after standalone kernel has started
When logged in with telnet partition the disk with following commands
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enter
gdisk /dev/sda
(delete all partitions if they are present)
check if no partition table is present by typing "p" command
create new partiton table
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Command (? for help): n
5
(accept the default first sector by pressing enter)
+256M
8200
n
6
(accept the default first sector by pressing enter)
+16M
(accept the default by pressing enter)
n
7
(accept the default first sector by pressing enter)
+16M
(press enter)
n
8
(accept the default first sector by pressing enter)
+884M
(press enter)
n
9
(accept the default first sector by pressing enter)
+884M
(press enter)
n
10
(accept the default first sector by pressing enter)
+16M
(press enter)
n
2
(accept the default first sector by pressing enter)
(accept the default last sector by pressing enter)
(press enter)
Command (? for help): p
Disk /dev/sdb: 976773168 sectors, 465.8 GiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 976773134
Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
Total free space is 2014 sectors (1007.0 KiB)
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
2 4245504 976773134 463.7 GiB 8300 Linux filesystem
5 2048 526335 256.0 MiB 8200 Linux swap
6 526336 559103 16.0 MiB 8300 Linux filesystem
7 559104 591871 16.0 MiB 8300 Linux filesystem
8 591872 2402303 884.0 MiB 8300 Linux filesystem
9 2402304 4212735 884.0 MiB 8300 Linux filesystem
10 4212736 4245503 16.0 MiB 8300 Linux filesystem
Command (? for help):
when it looks likes this enter "w" to write the partition table to disk, answer Y on the question Do you want to proceed? (Y/N)
and then "q" to leave gdisk (without the quotes)
on linux command line give commands to format partitions 7 , 8 and 9
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mke2fs-64 -j -m 1 /dev/sda7
mke2fs-64 -j -m 1 /dev/sda8
mke2fs-64 -j -m 1 /dev/sda9
Format partition 2 in xfs you need program mks.xfs to do this, upload it via tftp:
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tftp -l /sbin/mkfs.xfs -r mkfs.xfs -g pc-ip
(replace ip-pc by actual ip addres of your pc running the tftp server of the fvdw-sl console)
Make it executable:
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chmode 755 /sbin/mkfs.xfs
format partiton 2;
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mkfs.xfs /dev/sda2
Now we are ready to write lacie firmware to the different partitions
upload files system for partition 7:
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tftp -l sda7.tgz -r 5big2-sda7.tgz -g ip-pc
(replace ip-pc by actual ip addres of your pc running the tftp server of the fvdw-sl console)
write it to partition 7:
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mkdir sda7
mount /dev/sda7 /sda7
tar -xzvf sda7.tgz -C /sda7
umount /sda7
rm sda7.tgz
simalar for partition 8:
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tftp -l sda8.tgz -r 5big2-sda8.tgz -g ip-pc
(replace ip-pc by actual ip addres of your pc running the tftp server of the fvdw-sl console)
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mkdir sda8
mount /dev/sda8 /sda8
tar -xzvf sda8.tgz -C /sda8
umount /sda8
rm sda8.tgz
upload the kernel and write it to partition 6:
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tftp -l sda6.img -r 5big2-sda6.img -g ip-pc
(replace ip-pc by actual ip addres of your pc running the tftp server of the fvdw-sl console)
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dd if=sda6.img of=/dev/sda6
rm sda6.img
and finally do
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echo "LaCieFirstBootLaCie" | dd of=/dev/sda
now power-off the 5big2 by entering poweroff -f in the telnet client and power on the 5big2 again and see if the lacie firmware comes up
success ;)