[berryParticipant 2013-03-29 at 10:22 Post count: 3]

#714

Anybody tested the new Firmware from Experte 4?

It looks same 2.10.

There are two firmware included .

[fschneidParticipant 2013-03-29 at 11:42 Post count: 2]

#715

I can’t find an HS_4.0.TGZ File in the firmare directory anymore. It is not possible to untar the new INTRD File? Any Help?

[gediaParticipant 2013-03-29 at 12:56 Post count: 6]

#716

You can unzip it with 7-zip under Windows. I’ll update this thread if I get it to work…

P.S. hstrans is gone.

[fschneidParticipant 2013-03-29 at 13:02 Post count: 2]

#717

yes, unzip was possible but not more like untar, becaust it seems to be a initrd ramdisk file now.

I can extract all files with the following command. It is not necessary to unzip the file before!

zcat INITRD | cpio -iv

But the Homeserver will not start, becaus of missing libraries?

/hs/bin/hs_main: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.0.9.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

 

[gediaParticipant 2013-03-29 at 15:48 Post count: 6]

#718

You’re most probably missing some dependencies. I ran some preliminary tests with a clean debian 6.0.7 i386 installation and only minimal changes seem to be needed:

1) Install debian squeeze using the netinstall ISO on your VM. I went with Roel’s suggestion of using two disks: /dev/vda for the OS installation, /dev/vdb for use by hs_main

2) You need a valid MAC for this to work. hs_main seems to be OK with ifconfig reporting the MAC address in lowercase now

3) Copy the following directories from the firmware image to the root of your filesystem: /hs and /scripts

4) run: “apt-get install python-imaging”

5) Provided your MAC is valid, running /scripts/starths.sh will go through the initialization procedure and then start hs_main

6) Symlinking doesn’t really work right for block devices, use a hex editor to change all instances of /dev/hdb or /dev/hdc in the hs_main binary to whatever you’re using. If I’m not mistaken, it was Borgal who first suggested doing this, so the credit goes to him (or her).

P.S. I used the image for HS3, not HS4.

[damiandmParticipant 2013-03-29 at 16:41 Post count: 5]

#719

Can someone please provide a 2.10 image for VM to download?

THX

[CharlyParticipant 2013-04-08 at 22:03 Post count: 2]

#728

Can anyone give an instruction, how to create an INITRD file after modifying the starths.sh without having a linux system? I want to change first my backup-system to 4.0 and I don’t want to use VM.

regards

Charly

[hs815Participant 2013-04-16 at 11:11 Post count: 1]

#756

Hy Gedia,

i figured out, that with new kernel you dont nee dhc or hdb anymore..

it just works with sda…

thats what i did:

i updated my old HS3 (on kvm) to the new 4.0
the major change was the harddisk is now sda and no longer hdc
i use a suse11.3 64bit (know its not the newest).
created 4 partitions:
/dev/sda1               1         132     1060258+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda2             133        1177     8393962+  83  Linux
/dev/sda3            1178        1309     1060290    6  FAT16
/dev/sda4            1310        1441     1060290    6  FAT16

then i extracted the firmware file from experte 4 (zip) for HS3
(because i works with my old mac-address)
therefor i unpacked the inird with
gzip -dc ../INITRD | cpio -id
to a dir..

then i copied the hs dir to the rootpath of my linux
and when i started i needed to install some python-packages..
but first i copied all the python-dirs to my linux /usr/lib/python
there is a PIL dir which is needed..

then i can start it. With a script.

*****************************************
PYTHONPATH=/usr/lib/python/PIL
export PYTHONPATH
TZ=CET-1CEST,M3.5.0/2:00,M10.5.0/3:00
export TZ
hwclock –hctosys –utc
setserial /dev/ttyS0 autoconfig
setserial /dev/ttyS1 autoconfig

#only needed for serial transfer 1 time:
#/hs/bin/hs_main trans
#killall -9 python

/hs/bin/hs_main main
reboot
*********************
The communication for the first time I did with a nullmodem cable to windows8
The serialport on the new hs was ttys0…. It also changed…
Now it works fine…

on original HS4-hardware there are
15MB
110MB
870MB
870MB

all dos formatted, but the do something strange with turbodisk..
and then start it with loadlin to a ram -image. with busybox

[hugoParticipant 2013-04-17 at 13:24 Post count: 2]

#758

Hi,

i´m running a 2.8 homeserver on vmware since 2 years without any problems.

i´m trying now since 1 week to update it to 4.0 – but i can´t get it to work.

the server just get in a reboot loop after the update without any chance of interaction.

any hints what i can do to get the update working ?

 

[Rasmus7700Participant 2013-04-21 at 18:26 Post count: 4]

#764

Okay, so it should be possible to upgrade the HS 3 to the new Firmware – But does any of ya try it with the HS 4 and Experte 2.10?

Could be very nice, if it was possible to upgrade this, on a easy way… :)

What if you just use the Gira software for firmware upgrade? wouldn’t that work or?

[claus12Participant 2013-04-24 at 13:35 Post count: 3]

#767

I installed a CentOS 6.4 x64 & CentOS 6.4 x86 and a SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 x86. Starting the hs_main will allways end in the same failure:

<frozen>:15: DeprecationWarning: the md5 module is deprecated; use hashlib instead Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/hs/bin/hs_main.py”, line 83, in <module>
File “/hs/bin/hs_grafik.py”, line 4, in <module>
File “/hs/packages/i386/python26/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/PIL/ImageFont.py”, line 129,  <module>
File “/hs/packages/i386/python26/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/PIL/ImageFont.py”, line 148, in FreeTypeFont
File “/hs/packages/i386/python26/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/PIL/Image.py”, line 37, in __getattr__
ImportError: The _imaging C module is not installed

I would like to use CentOS or SLES cause I allready use a Hyper-V for a Firewall and a Terminal Server. Did somebody get it working with one of those two distributions?

Homeserver v 2.8 was working perfect with CentOS 5.5

[FilinParticipant 2013-04-25 at 16:27 Post count: 3]

#771

I am running 2.8 homeserver on VIA EPIA 6000

Just updated to HomeServer 4.0 via Expert software without any problem.

Seems work fine

[gediaParticipant 2013-04-29 at 14:15 Post count: 6]

#776

Update: Instead of replacing all instances of /dev/hdX with /dev/YourDevice, replace all instances of hdX (I tried hdb) with YourDevice (in my case, vdb – use match case when replacing). This prevents the “project too large” issue.

[claus12Participant 2013-05-03 at 11:17 Post count: 3]

#780

Thank you gedia. Your posts helped me to finally get it working.

It was not workin with SLES 11 SP2 x86, CentOS 6.4 x86/ 64bit nor with Debian 6.0.7 64bit.

I now used Debian i386 and it worked perfect. Now I just have to tune the Debian Linux for Hyper-V.

[mikejtdParticipant 2013-09-12 at 23:28 Post count: 1]

#978

I tried with hs4 on Debian6 i386 , but I have this error:

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Anyone has the same ?

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