This site is nowadays run on a qnap TS-109II device, because the old nslu2 device died. It uses a power efficient hard drive to reduce power consumption.
See this
page on how to install debian on the TS-109II. Works like a
charm, although the disk
performance is
a bit low.
The qnap has more memory than the NSLU2 which makes it possible to run
unison on reasonably sized directories, which was impossible for me on
the nslu2. The qnap now serves as ftp-, web-, ssh-, time-, subversion-
and backup-server and works really well.
The nslu2 is the black and grey standing device on the table, with "Linksys" printed on it.
The file system was on the usb stick (with the yellow/orange light on the right side of the nslu2). The greyish thing lying flat on the table is an external haddrive and not related to the nslu2.
I bought one here for SEK 915. It is marked "Manufactured 11/2006".
I followed the recipe here. It did not want to reboot properly, so I had to flash the original firmware back on, then redo the process. The reset button did not work as expected, which caused some trouble before I got it to be reset. I installed on a 1Gb usb2 flash disc ( of which is 200 Mb swap if I recall correctly).
Installed and configured ntp, emacs, curl, subversion, rsync, thttpd
Created scripts for copying files to /var/www
Done! The debian installation occupies 469 MB.
later edit: Sometimes network transfers fail, an update to kernel 2.6.18-4-ixp4xx found in unstable (instead of testing) seemed to solve the problem.
I added a script which lights the leds according to the load level. It uses dash (as opposed to dash) to avoid spending memory. This is handy to quickly see if the server is loaded or not.
