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Can anybody Help???

I have successfully partitioned my hard drive using the instructions from this website and my windows computer booted up into gparted.

http://lacie.nas-central.org/wiki/Insta ... space_2%29.

but for the life of me. I cannot copy any of the sdan.gz files into the partitions.

I am using the following command.

gzip -dc /dev/sdf/to/sda6.gz | dd of=/dev/sdb6 (/dev/sdf is my usb pen containing the .gz files)

Every time I press enter, I am told /dev/sdf/to/sda6.gz : not a directory.

What have I forgotten to do?? Can anyone help me.

Many thanks

Simon

which firmware you want to install, I assume the orinal lacie firmware or not ?

Anyhow in your command you can not use gzip -dc /dev/sdf/to/sda.gz
The part /dev/sdf/to is wrong you must replace that with the mountpoint of /dev/sdf

I am trying to install the original firmware 1.2.93.

I am sorry. but what do you mean by mountpoint??

Can you give me an example of how to mount a USB pen and then transfer the files.

I am not a computer expert, I am just following the instructions I downloaded.

Many thanks,

Simon

I see, a mountpoint is a directory (folder) on which the device is "mounted". That means when opening the folder you acccess the device.
When you give the command "mount" (without quotes) you should get a list of mountpoints, search there for /dev/sdf
if it is not prsenet then makea a mointpoint. Eq create a directory and give the command

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mount /dev/sdf /directory-created-by-you

replace "directory-created-by-you" by the directory you created

example if you created a sub directory with name "usb-disk" in the the directory home and you want to mount it there the command would be

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mount /dev/sdf /home/usb-disk

Dear fvdw,

Many thanks for your help, but I still cannot copy any files from the usb stick into the different partitions of my HDD.

I did a fdisk on my usb stick and it told me that i had 1 partition on the stick /dev/sdf1 and it is FAT16. So can I assume that the path to the device is /dev/sdf1?? Or is it /dev/sdf/sdf1???

anyway, here is what I have done so far.

'mount' showed nothing
so
mkdir /dev/sdf1
mount /dev/sdf1 /home/usb-disk (I placed the files sda6.gz, sda7.gz, sda8.gz, sda9.gz and sda10.gz into a folder called 'usb-disk'. This is in a folder called 'home' which is on my stick.

next I tried the following command

gzip -dc /dev/sdf1/home/usb-disk/sda6.gz | dd of=/dev/sde6

and again it says :not a directory.

What am I doing wrong???

How can I transfer single files across from usb stick to HDD partitions??

If you can help that would be fantastic,

Simon

try this

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cd /
mkdir /usb-disk
mount /dev/sdf1 /usb-disk


this should mount it
do following to see if you can see the content of the usb drive

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cd /usb-disk
ls

the command ls gives a listing of files in directory where you are
if the list contains sda6.gz the command then you can use

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gzip -dc /usb-disk/sda6.gz | dd of=/dev/sde6

and it should not complain anymore about that it is not a directory
before giving gzip command, it would be better to change back to the root directory

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cd /

ps be aware that the dd command will overwrite everything on partition 6 of drive sde ! so sde should be the drive where you want to have the content of that sda6.gz file

To fvdw,

I did as instructed and nothing happened, so I changed usb sticks and it worked.

The NS2 booted up and was recognised by Lacie network assistant, but the dashboard said I had no storage space.

As described towards the bottom of this webpage.

http://forum.nas-central.org/viewtopic.php?f=236&t=4285.

I used the network assistant to update the firmware to 2.1.2. and 30 nervous minutes later it booted up, I now have a fully working 2tb NS2.

Many thanks fvdw for your time, without it, I would of still had a black paperweight.

Simon

glad to hear you got it working Simon.

maybe your Linux mount command didn't support FAT16, anyhow problem solved

Dear administrator and friends great full if you could split the xfvdw-sl-14-0-nwsp2-23dec2012.zip into 4 parts as am unable to download the files as it always gets timeout due to slow connections in my country , actually am running on the 10 version which i was able to download as it was split n i would like to thank you for the job your team have done n sorry for writing on this link as am unable to write on other pages
regards
shailesh

Ok shailesh,

I will do that ;)

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