The Thecus N1200 box has a serial port prepared. If you connect to it, you
can see it got booted. This page documents the way of doing.
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Random notes about N1200
CPU et al
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NFS module
This is the NFS daemon module for Thecus N1200. I made it based on the version 1.1.00 of the N2100 NFSD module by Lzimmerma Mshapf, with the binary executables replaced with the PowerPC counterpart from Debian woody, as well as with the install.rdf file modified to fit the N1200 architecture....
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Firmware Handling
The Thecus firmware is actually a tarball but encrypted with DES. Interesting
enough, the key for the DES encryption is actually the model number: n1200 for
my box and n2100 for another model.
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Spamassassin
Setup spamassassin in Debian is easy: just apt-get. Exim users might need sa-exim for rejecting mails at the gateway.
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