DiskStation Software¶
Additional software for the power user.
PowerPC (ppc) based Diskstations¶
Big ups to the folks at NSLU2-Linux.org who provide lots of additional packages for the DiskStation (called Optware) and other NAS. They use the ipkg package management system. In order to use this and install packages, you need to «bootstrap» as described in their wiki in the document DS101BootStrap.
It is highly recommended to thoroughly read all the documents in the Wiki and all post in the ds101-linux Yahoo group.
For experienced users a snapshot of a minimal environment to use #ipkg## and the Optware feed (cross/stable is preconfigured here) is provided here.
- bootstrap-ppc.tar.gz (2.5 MB)
Possible installation procedure:
cd /; tar -xzvf /volume1/public/bootstrap-ppc.tar.gz; ln -s /volume1/opt /opt; export PATH=/opt/bin:/opt/sbin:$PATH /opt/bin/ipkg update; /opt/bin/ipkg upgrade
You might want to have the DS start the Optware services automatically on boot (/opt/etc/rc.optware):
echo ". /opt/etc/rc.optware" >> /etc/rc.local sh /opt/etc/rc.optware
ARMv5tejl based Diskstations (DS-107+, DS-207+, CS-407)¶
There is an Optware feed for these at http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/syno-x07/cross/unstable/. Lots of information about this can be found in Synology's forum (e.g. here).
See also the Mods for ... page in Synology’s wiki.
Alternative¶
SSODS comes with a variety of programmes you can use without installing SqueezeCenter. See [[ssods_source?|this list]] for details. Basically you just install SSODS and then use the programmes found in /volume1/SSODS/bin.
Other people have successfully used individual binaries from Debian GNU/Linux. You want to look for packages in the ppc or armeb release (arch). Note: .deb files are ar(1) archives, which contain .tar.gz archives and scripts. I think you can use [new:www.izarc.org IzArc] to extract them under Windoze.