Success with A cloudbox 4To

[drixon]

Hi all,
First of all, I wanna say thank you very much for everybody who has participate to develop this treasure and specially the Mr ‘Fvdw’ and ‘Jocko’ , You’re really making this world better… Bravo :applause

I’ve tested the firmware on my new Lacie CloudBox 4to (white casing) with a success.
In the beginning I had the same problem as discussed in this thread:
viewtopic.php?f=28&t=1547

Which is when ‘it tries to format sda9 and then it fails’. So the solution as given by our Admin ‘Fvdw’ was to back up the partitions on the Cloudbox (just to be secure for a rollback) and then delete them.

The commands were (this is a time consuming, more than an hour to backup all the partitions) :
dd if=/dev/sdaX | gzip > /sdaX.img.gz
tftp -l /sdaX.img.gz -r sdaX.img.gz -p ip_of_your_PC
rm sdaX.img.gz

where X is 1,2,3,4,5,6,8 (a partition each time, no need for 7)

after that I’ve deleted the partitions with
gdisk /dev/sda
d
1
d
2
…
Till 8

And then launch the script again with : /fvdw-sl-installer ‘IP_Your_PC’ but this time you say that this is a new disk and NOT the original Lacie Disk.

That would take some Time (~30min), Reboot (as asked by the script) and you will be good to Go
You could also update the firmware from the Web console.
All credits go to ‘Fvdw’ and of course ‘ElBalsero’ for their perseverance.
Keep it UP :hail