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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 course of years, a long time ago. Some of which I can't remember and some of which may simply not be possible anymore because of Netgear possibly pulling back some of the apt repo support...or changing it in some way. I was running Medusa before, but Medusa requires a newer version of Python3 then was ever provided for jessie. I am not sure how I ever got that running before I may have built python3 myself, but now I can't seem to even install build-essential anymore using apt-get, Its probably true I should try to just keep this machine as close to factory as possible and avoid fancy mods this time around, but still...it was working really well for me before, lost whatever I did to get it there before. Anyway here are some open questions as I am setting it up again, my memory is foggy from years when when I last ever did this: I create a share called "raid", which will be my primary data share to hold everything, aside from the Home share that readynas OS creates automatically. This shows up in ssh as /data/raid. Fine so far. at some point I created a dir called /data/raid/extra and put stuff in it however this dir shows up in two places, it shows up in /data/raid/extra, and it shows up in /home/sjs/extra, and they appear to both be linked in some way to the same thing, they both have the same dir hierarchy under them, but the one under /home/sjs doesn't have any of the files that are on the real extra dir I created and populate with files over on that /data/raid share. I vaguely recall some weird share and dir linking that readynas OS does...and I don't remember if I disabled it in some way to avoid confusion, but for the life of me I can't figure out why this one dir called extra is also showing up under my home dir, but can't see the actual files inside..only the dirs. very strange. I have created other dir's under /data/raid also..they do not show up, so its even more strange that extra does and the others don't. The only thing I can figure is that I may have added extra with ssh and the others or SMB or something along those lines...but anyway what gives here and how can I fix it? any info about how I should setup apt repo today in 2025? Did Netgear change that in some way when they locked down ReadynasOS? I already rolled back to 6.10.9 when .10 first came out with the limitations, and so when I did a factory reset, I have 6.10.9 and that is what I prefer to keep, but I vaguely recall Netgear also rolled back some of the support for apt-get... So for example, is build-essential just out of the question now? Plex seems to work fine, hooray, so I will probably use this box for only three tasks, plex server, nzbget, which also seems to work fine, and some file storage of mostly stuff I can afford to lose. I'll have to run Medusa or Sonarr from my Mac from now on since getting python3 or perhaps many other things I had installed in the past via apt-get or compiling myself..is basically out of the question now. Please comment on this point. Previously I had taken an old deb from Mhynlo and doctored it up a bit to get latest version of nzbget into front view for starting and stopping it there, launching it from there, etc. Well.. now I have installed a much more recent of nzbget and the binary works fine it seems. However, I can't remember what I did to get the front view thing working, any old deb from Mhynlo is long gone. I found an old one on GitHub that when I try to install it from front view, it doesn't work. I basically think I can manually put when I need to put in /apps to get that working again, but now I can't remember exactly what I did. There is a config.xml file, fine. There is the fvapps file, fine. I have all those, but I think there is more I need to do that his original deb installer must have done to enable the front view registration of it, and also to register it as a service in the Debian system...but I cannot for the life of me remember.. I guess I will have to unpack one of the old deb installers to remind myself what to manually do with the fvappxxx.service file and the config.xml...in order to manually configure this in /apps but if anyone knows off hand quickly how to do that to save me time I'd appreciate it. thanks. Aside from that I don' think I will any other fancy customizations, just want to keep it simple, nzbget, plex and file service..that's good enough to keep it going as a functional server in my house for a few more years. But hey if you have any info about how I can ressurect apt-get or build-essential, it would be good to know, but I have a feeling that is over.
EX2700 Channel Configuration
EX2700 Channel Configuration Greetings, I don't know how to access the strongest channel my community WIFI offers where I am staying. I've identified the best channels using WiFi Analyzer on my smartphone which identified Channels 5, 6 and 14 and not sure how to get started tapping onto these channels. I am using a WIndows10 laptop. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!