Unsling Made Easy

The instructions on how to unsling a NSLU2 are quite hard to find on the website.  So I wanted to document them for myself.  This is how I unslung my NSLU2.  You'll need access to Perl.

1. Boot up the NSLU2 without any drives attached
2. Download the firmware
3. Upgrade the firmware from the web interface
4. Plug in drive to Disk 1
5. Format drive
6. In the Administration | Advanced | Backup section, download the config file (takes a while for it to generate the config.bin file)
7. Save config.bin
8. Rename config.bin to config.tar
9. Untar config.tar
10. Edit config/passwd
11. perl -e 'printf "%s\n", crypt("mypassword","na");'
12. Change the 'root' password to the one that was spit out by the above command
13. Tar config.tar with the new passwd file
14. Rename config.tar to config.bin
15. Restore the config.bin
16. Use web interface to enable telnet
17. Telnet into NSLU2 as root
18. Run /sbin/unsling disk1
19. Done