Creating Filesystems with Openmediavault (Solved)

[Mark Greaves (PCNetSpec)]

Actually unless the system does a lot of swapping (in which case SeZo is right) I doubt if HDD orientation will make a major difference .. effectively this is only going to have to keep up with an ethernet link.
(theoretically what SeZo says does make sense though)

Putting the CD-ROM at the end would also make it easier to replace it with a hdd at a later date for maximum storage without disrupting the rest of the setup.

That kinda makes sense .. I thought Debian uses UUID's to identify partitions .. that said it would certainly make more sense to a human trying to make sense of it as we saw before

[SeZo]

Although I have the usb device plugged in it is not showing at all under network interfaces, how should I proceed from here

You could start with this:

OK, you're going to NEED an active internet connection (ethernet cable) to add the non-free repo, then install the firmware (firmware-atheros)

see here:
http://wiki.debian.org/ar9170usb

[EDIT]

Or you could download the deb from here:
http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/f/firmware-nonfree/firmware-atheros_0.28+squeeze1_all.deb
transfer it across and install it with

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dpkg -i firmware-atheros_0.28+squeeze1_all.deb

but it would probably be easier with an ethernet connection

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[Mark Greaves (PCNetSpec)]

Have you got an ethernet connection to the internet ?

[Emegra]

Ok I have an active ethernet connection and I can log into the Web GUI so I'm good to go that way if that's ok

[Mark Greaves (PCNetSpec)]

2 secs .. it would be easier to add the repo to /etc/apt/sources.list

then just download/install it along with wpasupplicant

Do you remember how to add the repo to sources.list ?

[Emegra]

Do you remember how to add the repo to sources.list ?

Sorry I don't there was so much going on when we did it last time I can't take it all in 

[Mark Greaves (PCNetSpec)]

Run

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nano /etc/apt/sources.list

and add 2 NEW lines at the bottom that reads:-

# Debian repos added by Emegra
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free

SAVE the file, and then run:

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apt-get update

then

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apt-get install firmware-atheros wpasupplicant

did that work ?

[Emegra]

There is an update manager within the Web GUI with a whole lot of available updates it may be in there

[Mark Greaves (PCNetSpec)]

it might be  .. but I'm guessing sources.list only contains the security update repos  .. like it did before

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[Mark Greaves (PCNetSpec)]

If you've added the repo as I said .. DO NOT .. use the update manager in the webUI yet.

[Emegra]

E: Could not get lock /var/cache/apt/archives/lock - open (11: Resource temporarilly unavailable)
E: Unable to lock directory /var/cache/apt/archives/

[Mark Greaves (PCNetSpec)]

what gave that ?

have you got the update manager open in the webui ?

[Emegra]

what gave that ?

apt-get install firmware-atheros wpasupplicant

have you got the update manager open in the webui ?

Yes

[Mark Greaves (PCNetSpec)]

Close the update manager .. then try again.

and can we slow down a bit here .. until we get the wireless stuff installed and that repo disabled again.

[EDIT]

The update manager wasn't actually getting updates was it ? .. if so let it finish.

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[Emegra]

Ok I closed out of the Web GUI completely and tried and getting the same results

The update manager wasn't actually getting updates was it ?

No, the updates have to be selected manually and I didn't set anything running