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Experience with OS 6 on Legacy....
Does anyone have any thoughts, tips, caveats to running OS6 on legacy hardware? I see lots of complaints, problems, etc. I'd like to hear from anyone that's got it running and using it on a day ...
I'm very happy with OS6 6.2.2 on a PRO6 (with upgraded processor and 8GB memory). I'm running ssh, plex, subsonic, sickbeard/couchpotato/headphones, utorrent, openvpn, logitech media server, and of course file sharing (photos, backups, videos). The newer linux distro in OS6 made using open source much easier so many of these I installed and configured myself.
steve
steve
Hello,
New here, if I have a ReadyNAS Pro 6 RNDP6000-200, which OS6 file should I use, since it will not show up on my support page? Which other NAS should we look at to download the OS6 file?
Thanks,
David
See e.g. the third post in this thread: https://community.netgear.com/t5/Using-your-ReadyNAS/OS6-now-works-on-x86-Legacy-WARNING-NO-NTGR-SUPPORT/td-p/897021
You need a special image to do the upgrade and don't forget to backup your data first.
After upgrading to OS6 subsequent firmware updates are done using the ordinary OS6 x86_64 image file which is used for the 300 series and up in desktop models.Hello,
My upgrade went without issue, very easy and worked 1st try. I used the 2 files from my other post, and I backed up everything so it worked out well. However, when I restored, only 1 of my backups came back. Luckily, the other 2 backups were not important, so it did not matter.
Very happy, all is well. Thanks for your reply.
David
Saw your post about running sickbeard on OS6 on RNU6... I'm trying to do that aswell, and I seem to be able to install the plugins from the app store, but not sure they are configuring properly. Plex and Transmission seem to be ok. Can't use the SSH at all. Couchpotato and Sickbeard seem to let me configure the, and they recognize Transmission, but don't find any content for download.
Any advice on how to setup/test the media grabbing apps? I can't seem to find any configuration or installation instructions for the readynas packaged apps. Is there some documentation I can follow for step by step installation and configuration of these open source tools?
Thanks for reading this, any hints are appreciated.
My description would not be for the faint of heart :-). I've enabled ssh and pretty much installed everything myself. I did use the sickbeard addon but later switched to a new/better distro from github. I used the qbittorrent addon and then from ssh built and installed the latest qbittorrent. I added qbittorrent support to headphones but haven't got it up to github yet because the maintainer has kind of blocked out master with some tests that fail.
Essentially you start by getting ssh access, then installing git. Then for each app using SSH I added a user account for that app to run out of and put it in the users group. Then I created a directory under /apps. Say /apps/sickbeard. su to the sickbeard account and use git to replicate the source. Configure the ini file and start the app. Once you get it working you need to add a startup script in /etc/init.d unless you used an addon and automatic startup is already in place. If you used the addon then just update the software put down by the addon to the version you want. Sorry, I'm sure this is not what you wanted and if you are not comfortable you should not do this. Be very careful setting all paths in the ini files as you can fill up the root partition quickly and it can be a pain to clean up. Trust me, I know :-).
steve
Better to use systemd than init.d scripts.
There may be newer versions of some apps e.g. in super-poussin's Dropbox or at rnxtras.com
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