Installing firmware on a new disk

[smslatter]

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

[fvdw]

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

[smslatter]

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

[fvdw]

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

[smslatter]

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

[fvdw]

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

[smslatter]

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

[fvdw]

glad to hear you got it working Simon.

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

[shailesh]

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

[Jocko]

Ok shailesh,

I will do that ;)

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http://plugout.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1140&p=6955#p6955