linuxgeek: RE: [nslu2-linux] SOS

Hi Vi!
I'm not a Slug expert, there are better people here who can help you get your slug back on its feet. However, this happened to me once too. Don't panic, even if the slug is dead you can 99% likely still get at your data. Go to: http://www.vmware.com/appliances/ . Scroll down a little and click the "popular" link under the blue "Virtual Appliances" logo and download the Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop virtual appliance onto whatever PC you sent that email from. Also download a free copy of VMWare player and install it. Once that's done, you should be able to double-click on the Ubuntu Desktop Virtual appliance VMDK file (or whatever the extension is), and you'll get an Ubuntu Virtual machine. You can now plug in the hard drive from the slug into the PC, mount it under the virtual machine, back up your files to the host OS / an SMB share. Note you will need about 5 Gigs of HDD space for the install and VMWare VM, plus whatever you need for your backups.

It's possible you just need a new power supply for your slug. That's what my problem was. The outage damaged it in some way.

Good Luck! i hope someone here can help you get your slug back up too!

N.

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To: nslu2-linux@yahoogroups.com
From: vi_sharan@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 01:29:36 +0000
Subject: [nslu2-linux] SOS

Hi I had a recent power outage and therafter my slug has died. It wont detect my disk1 or disk2
df by telnetting just shows

/dev/mtdblock4

Unforunately dont have any backups!! Please help

SOS

TIA

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