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johndavisnz / lockerstor-debian.md
Last active May 21, 2025 16:34
Installing Debian on the Nimbustor4/2 ( as5304t/as5202t )

Whilst Asustor's ADM suits most people, it is possible to install ANY intel operating system on the nimbustor4/2 (as5202t/as5304t) as they run fairly generic intel hardware (asmedia sata controller, rtl8125 2.5gbe nic and ite system management chip)

in this gist I'll detail the steps needed to install and configure Debian11

Before proceeding you need to decide where you're going to install Debian.

Most people will choose to install it to a usb3 attached drive - either a usb3 ssd ( samsung t5 or similar ) or a usb3 hdd. This gives the most straightforward install ( just tell Debian to use the entire usb3 drive to install to ) and maximises available space on the NAS HDDs

The other option is to install Debian direct to the NAS hard drives - that means no extra drive hanging off the nas, and you can raid1 mirror the system partition across all drives for added resiliency ( though this is somewhat limited as the EFI boot partition is only on sda - so in the case of sda failing you'd need to boot off i

@en4rab
en4rab / CF-U1-BIOS.md
Last active July 22, 2025 12:01
Recovering the BIOS password from a Panasonic CF-U1 mk2 (AMI Aptio UEFI)

Recovering the BIOS password from a Panasonic CF-U1 mk2 (AMI Aptio UEFI)

A mess of my own making

While messing with a CF-U1 handheld PC that I bought off ebay I managed to mess up the BIOS and it seems it reverted to previous settings which included an unknown BIOS password, it would however still boot into windows. Since I could still boot windows I was able to dump the bios flash using AFUWINGUI.EXE the version I used was 3.09.03.1462 which is available here:
https://www.ami.com/support-other/ Click on Aptio 4 AMI Firmware Update Utility

@Waltibaba
Waltibaba / lxc_mount_block_device
Last active October 6, 2024 02:46
Mount a block device like HDD inside an LXC container (specifically in proxmox 4)
Mounting block device in lxc (specifically Proxmox 4)
1. Find devices' major & minor ID (need both dev + partition for HDD)
# ls -al /dev/sda
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 0 Dec 19 11:16 /dev/sda1
# ls -al /dev/sda1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 Dec 19 11:16 /dev/sda1
That's 8,0 for sda and 8,1 for sda1