DNS323 TWONKY INSTALL

Once that is done, the ffp install is not used any further. Luckily there is a (convoluted) way to get a very thin linux install (ffp) with Telnet onto the box first and then use that to configure DebianSqueeze. To configure DebianSqueeze requires Telnet to be running on the NAS and unfortunately out of the box, this is not the case. So what you end up with, is a NAS running linux, that runs DebianSqueeze linux as a plugin that hosts subversion. Once you have DebianSqueeze installed and running, you install and configure the subversion package and away you go. Installing this does not affect the rest of the NAS and you wont see any impact on the web interface. To get subversion running on the DNS-320 you need a linux installation that runs alongside the one in the firmware, in this case DebianSqueeze.

However there is an undocumented hook (called ‘fun_plug’ which I guess stands for functionality plugin) that is checked on startup and can be used to add additional functionality stored on the hard drive. Whilst the DNS-320 ships with its own version of Linux in the firmware, we aren’t going to be able to bolt directly onto that. But I like a challenge… What will I end up with? For reference, I am not a linux expert – in fact it would be fair to say, I know to next to nothing about it. Nevertheless – success was ultimately had. Getting subversion working – rather longer. Getting the device up and running was the job of a few minutes work. So I ordered one, waited a few days and once it arrived shoved a drive in it. Someone had got subversion running on it. Thinking of my old Linksys router and remembering appliances often run linux under the hood, I had a bit of a google and found this page. Running my own TFS server is probably a bit over the top, I’m not sure I have the spare change in my back pocket for the licencing.Īt the same time I was aware I wanted to move my RAID’ed storage / backup solution out of the media system under the telly where it currently lives, to a dedicated NAS device.īeing a tight arse I went over to Ebuyer and looked up the cheapest unit that supported RAID1 (mirroring) and gigabit transfer rates and found the D-Link DNS320 for £53 inc VAT without disks, it can take up to two 2TB drives. But lets be honest, it is a pile of crap, I’m used to TFS at work, I can’t be doing with Sourcesafe. Yes of course I could use Microsoft Sourcesafe, it does integrate nicely with VisualStudio. I recently found myself wanting to work on a programming project at home, using C# and VisualStudio 2010, and like any good developer realised I needed source control.

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