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amouiche / qnap_mtd_resize_for_bullseye

Script for resizing MTD partitions on a QNAP device in order to be able to upgrade from buster to bullseye
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How can I reinstall Debian after resize? #46

Open Conan179 opened 9 months ago

Conan179 commented 9 months ago

Hi first. I messed up... I managed to completely delete my /usr/ folder. How do I reinstall Debian now? I don't mean recover, I mean completely reinstall.

lpaolini commented 9 months ago

Hi. Do you have serial console access? If so, see issue #44. You'll need to reinstall Debian 10, then upgrade to 11, then upgrade to 12. It'll take time but it's perfectly doable.

Conan179 commented 9 months ago

No idont have a seriel console access. How can I reinstall Debian 10?

lpaolini commented 9 months ago

I don't think it's possible without serial console, after the partition resize.

amouiche commented 9 months ago

It is, but you way just tweek the debian install script. It will be 

- Follow https://github.com/amouiche/qnap_mtd_resize_for_bullseye/blob/master/Recovery.md  to re-intall the QNAP original firmware using the QNAP TFTP method

Just tell me what you experience, and we will update the recorvery documentation along. Arnaud

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Conan179 commented 9 months ago

ok i try it.

I'll edit the post to avoid spamming.

1.Recover via qnap live disk. Went without any problems [~] # cat /proc/mtd dev: size erasesize name mtd0: 00080000 00010000 "U-Boot" mtd1: 00200000 00010000 "Kernel" mtd2: 00900000 00010000 "RootFS1" mtd3: 00300000 00010000 "RootFS2" mtd4: 00040000 00010000 "U-Boot Config" mtd5: 00140000 00010000 "NAS Config" under qnap fw.

Edit 19:11: Debian 10 is anstalled and running. root@qnas:~# sudo ./qnap_mtd_resize.py --dry-run

[Check of the QNAP model and see if supported] kirkwood-qnap: machine: QNAP TS419 family DTB file: kirkwood-ts419-6282.dtb Kernel has already been resized. Can't process further safely.

So upgrade to bookworm is currently in progress.

It took me all afternoon, but I was able to reinstall Debian without accessing the serial console. @amouiche

edit: 23:38 Upgrade to bookworm is finished and Nas is purring like a kitten. So that this doesn't happen to me again, I selected when installing that /, /var/, /tmp/ and /home/ are on spare partitions and I can backup the pure /. df -h Dateisystem Größe Benutzt Verf. Verw% Eingehängt auf udev 371M 0 371M 0% /dev tmpfs 76M 272K 76M 1% /run /dev/sda2 23G 761M 21G 4% / tmpfs 377M 0 377M 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 5,0M 0 5,0M 0% /run/lock /dev/sda5 1,8G 40K 1,7G 1% /tmp /dev/sda3 9,1G 293M 8,4G 4% /var /dev/sda1 234M 17M 205M 8% /boot /dev/sda6 x,xx 48K x,xx x% /home tmpfs 76M 0 76M 0% /run/user/0

Conan179 commented 9 months ago

It is, but you way just tweek the debian install script. It will be  - Follow https://github.com/amouiche/qnap_mtd_resize_for_bullseye/blob/master/Recovery.md  to re-intall the QNAP original firmware using the QNAP TFTP method - re-install debian 10  as usual. - you will not need to do the partitionning again, it will already be set. Just tell me what you experience, and we will update the recorvery documentation along. Arnaud

@amouiche Thanks for your help, it worked perfectly. Luckily I have to say, the serial to USB adapter I bought from Amazon doesn't fit the pins on the board of my TS-421, the plugs are too big...