WD MyBook Live NAS

[herbjohnson]

Hi gabbel,

a recent non-suppressable urge to update my MBL firmware left me with no SBS installed anymore. Should have known … *sigh*

Anyways–thus i was given the chance to re-evaluate the issue whether the installation of the additional mysql-packages was necessary.

Two paths were tried:
1. Using the instructions provided by the Slimdevices Wiki[1]
2. Using your instructions but trying to skip the mysql installation

Path 1 led to no good state: The Slimdevices server who was said to have the Packages available did not have PPC Binaries ready anymore. You may take the status message at the top of the wiki page literally: "This page needs editing. It may contain […] outdated information."
It would have been too easy …

Path 2 worked in the end but with surprising results, but see for yourself:
First I downloaded the current DEB-Package and dpkg'd it. And there she blowed: Unresolved dependencies. So your instructions were all perfectly fine and I shouldn't have asked in the first place.
The rest of the night was spent firing up aptitude (Sorry, but as a designer I have to check out every available GUI first ), hassling with the Resolver who wanted to remove the partially installed SBS, hating the resolver, selecting the mysql-server and libmysqlclient-dev-packages (mysql-client was already installed, presumably by MBL-default) manually for installation–et voilà–finally having my good old (correction: freshly installed) SBS back on duty.

Pheuuuw.

One thing is clear in the end: Please leave your instructions as-is–they are perfectly fine as long as the Slimdevices distro server does not provide the missing PPC package anymore.

Thank you once again for sharing your knowledge with us!

[1] For the record: I am referring to the following Slimdevices wiki page: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.ph...ons_for_Debian

[fjunger]

I just upgraded to Squeezebox Server 7.6.0 - no problems so far.

It seems to be using SQLite, so I was wondering if I can uninstall the MySQL-packages. Any ideas?

[aubuti]

I would give the "so far" a bit more time to make sure you can live with 7.6.0. If it continues to go smoothly for you, then yes, you can delete the MySQL packages as long as you're not using MySQL for anything else.

[Kamikaze]

I just upgraded to Squeezebox Server 7.6.0 - no problems so far.

Can you please describe wich steps are neccesary to do this ?
Please remind, i am not a pro

[PaulEast]

I would like to run Squeezebox Touch on a (new) Western Digital My Book Live 1Tb drive which is connected to the Squeezebox Touch by ethernet cable via my Netgear Wireless-N Modem Router (DGNB2100). Operating system is Windows 7 (64-bit).

What do I need to do to achieve this? I have read the other posts in this thread but am unclear how you actually install SBS on teh NAS itself.
(I can recall command-line DOS of many years ago but I have no knowledge of Linux.)

Answers gratefully received!

Paul

[AVman]

I would like to run Squeezebox Touch on a (new) Western Digital My Book Live 1Tb drive which is connected to the Squeezebox Touch by ethernet cable via my Netgear Wireless-N Modem Router (DGNB2100). Operating system is Windows 7 (64-bit).

What do I need to do to achieve this? I have read the other posts in this thread but am unclear how you actually install SBS on teh NAS itself.
(I can recall command-line DOS of many years ago but I have no knowledge of Linux.)

Answers gratefully received!

Paul

take a look at the first link, read it a few times over just as I did and you will be able to do as you wish.

to enter the text it lists you will need a telnet/ssh toll. I use tera term but there are thousands.

Can I add my thanks again, i tried this for the first time and it is great. just waiting for the jogglers so I can tackle those next.

J

[gabbel]

I would like to run Squeezebox Touch on a (new) Western Digital My Book Live 1Tb drive which is connected to the Squeezebox Touch by ethernet cable via my Netgear Wireless-N Modem Router (DGNB2100). Operating system is Windows 7 (64-bit).

What do I need to do to achieve this? I have read the other posts in this thread but am unclear how you actually install SBS on teh NAS itself.
(I can recall command-line DOS of many years ago but I have no knowledge of Linux.)

Answers gratefully received!

Paul

Hi Paul,

The WD MyBook Live is running a small Debian Linux version.
This version is assembled by WD from the Original Debian Linux and does not include all tool and programs of the larger Original Debian.

If you never worked with Linux or Unix systems before, then you should ask a friend who knows a little about linux to help you with the installation.

To prepare your Computer please download a Terminal tool for SSH I use "Putty" (http://www.putty.org/) while working on Windows.

SSH terminals are similar to the old DOS command line (only better...)
With SSH you will "build a command-line Session to your MyBook Live"
after you are logged on, you will be able to apply commands to the MyBook Live local linux command line.

You maybee remember the DOS editor "EDIT.COM". The tool "vi" or "vim" are texteditors for Linux, but with the difference that they have no graphical interface.

To open a file in vi or vim you need to do: "vi </Path to file/filename>" or "vim </Path to file/filename>"
Vi will open and you can move the cursor.
When you press the ESC button on your keyborad, you can set commands in the last line.
For example:
":q!" Quit the Texteditor without changes to the file.
":x" Save and Exit.
"i" insert text after the cursor.
"r" replace a single letter.
"dd" Delete the line.

The second post on the first page include the install instructions.
The instruction is updated from time to time...

Please read carefully how to use the tool "vi"

Alternatively you can install WinSCP (http://winscp.net/eng/download.php) on your Windows computer.
With WinSCP you can browse the filestructure on the nas and edit the configuration files under Windows with the "WinSCP Text Editor" (Example: edditing of the twonky configuration file).

Please use the Intructions for the new SBS version (v7.6.0) there you don't need the MySQL installation anymore to make it run.

I hope that you will have luck with the installation.

Kind regards,

gabbel.

[halliwells99]

I'm trying to install the Squeezebox Server on mu WD MyBook,

I'm reasonably literate with SSH etc. I regularly change and install software on my Apple TV through SSH, but the WD MyBook is driving me mad, don't know where I'm going wrong.
I'm logged in successfully as root but my terminal (Putty) keeps giving me back errors whenever I input commands. Can someone please tell me where I'm going wrong.

First I'm trying to disable Twonky, but when I put in..

/etc/init.d/twonky stop

I get the error message...

=sh: /etc/init.d/twonky: not found.

My Twonky server is definitely up and running, I've checked through he browser.

Any suggestions?

[ply3908]

Why not just install Vortexbox (http://vortexbox.org/about/) on MyBook Live? You need to use a USB CD drive for installation. I don't know if the NAS powerful enough for ripping tho.

[halliwells99]

Has anyone tried the vortexbox solution on the mybook? I've done a quick google search and it doesn't look feasible. Anyone?