Hello, my nextbox finally arrived 
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I want to use the internal disk to backup my box. So I have to replace the internal disk. I have not started the Nextbox to directly start with the new disk. I found the ‚prepare_harddrive.sh‘ script on github to prepare the disk but wasn‘t able to finish the setup. My questions are the following:
Where should the script be executed?
Can this be processed without the inital box setup?
Where do I get the serial as the second input parameter for the script?
Is this process documented anywhere? Couldn‘t find any information.
Regards
Hey @Griswold,
generally the documentation for hard-disk replacement is not yet there, see the todo here: NextBox: Missing documentation · Issue #38 · Nitrokey/nitrokey-documentation · GitHub
Overall you’ve already found the right file prepare_harddrive.sh but this one is mainly for production therefore the serial, which will lead to a token, which is saved on the drive (used as identification for the backwards proxy).
Generally, you could make it work like that:
- remove line 28 in
prepare_harddrive.sh (the python call)
- remove line 60 in
prepare_harddrive.sh, which copies the nextbox.conf generated by the python script
- now you can run
prepare_harddrive.sh for the designated hard-drive (use 12345678 as serial it’s only used by the python script)
- further you have to copy the
nextbox.conf from /nextbox/ on your internal drive to the same location on the new harddrive
Mechanical the replacement of the hard-drive is quite straight forward, a phillips screwdriver should be enough, anyways be careful with the connectors and the wiring.
hope this helps until the docs are updated,
best
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Thank you, this worked for me perfectly, box was up after 3 minutes and is now ready for configuration.
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