Installing MySQL 4.1.22

cd /mnt/hda/misc
wget http://ftp.up.ac.za/pub/windows/MySQL/Downloads/MySQL-4.1/mysql-4.1.22.tar.gz
tar -zxvf mysql-4.1.22.tar.gz
cd mysql-4.1.22
groupadd mysql
useradd -g mysql mysql
export CFLAGS=-O3
export CXXFLAGS=-O3
./configure –prefix=/mnt/hda/opt/mysql –with-readline –without-debug
make
make install

Then install the Dev tools

cd /mnt/hda/misc
wget http://momonga.nahi.to/pub/mips/mipsel/MySQL-devel-4.0.25-1m.mipsel.rpm
rpm2cpio MySQL-devel-4.0.25-1m.mipsel.rpm | cpio -di
cp -r usr/* /usr

SQL Done

These articles are not complete but they should be able to assist with baselining the NAS with Linux:

Flash here:

http://linkstationwiki.net/index.php?title=The_LinkStation_firmware_flasher

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Start by creating the following

mkdir /mnt/hda/misc
mkdir /mnt/hda/opt
After that you should install the development tools. cd /mnt/hda/misc
wget http://downloads.linkstationwiki.net/development_tools/mipsel-tools-2_1.tgz
mkdir devtools
cd devtools
tar -xzvf ../mipsel-tools-2_1.tgz
./install.sh

Install expat
cd /mnt/hda/misc
wget http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/expat/expat-1.95.8.tar.gz
tar -xzvf /mnt/hda/misc/expat-1.95.8.tar.gz
cd expat-1.95.8
./configure –prefix=/usr
make install

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