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Dewdman42
Jul 16, 2025Virtuoso
Factory Reset and some questions
Continuation from other thread about my bad disk(s)... Now that I have factory reset it, it's a bit depressing to realize I lost all kinds of customizations I had made to ReadyNASOS over the cour...
StephenB
Jul 19, 2025Guru - Experienced User
Dewdman42 wrote:I'll check out those threads, but if it's what I am thinking it was somebody who found a way to mirror the entire repo, which I am not prepared to do.
Mirroring is included in the thread, but the main thrust is adjusting apt so it grabs the Jessie libraries from the debian archives. So there is no need to mirror. The second link in my post above includes the instructions and downloads for the files you need to modify.
That said, I am not sure if Netgear's apt archive is still up (been a while since I tried to access it). So there could still be some issues with missing back-ported libraries.
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