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Is it possible to still find the original Excito installers online? Both for the original pre-3TB version and for the later 3TB version? (I do have a zip file from 2021 containing a file intall/version = "2.4.1.1")


I think you are confusing the Excito installers with the u-boot images ...

Thanks for that! Are the LED signals on boot described somewhere?

Nope and I admit I'm kinda lazy to write it.


Still, the B3 seems to be a bit unstable at the moment. On some boot attempts with the rescue stick, the LED never went on at all. Other times when the booting was successful I was ...

BTW, when trying to boot with USB rescue stick (b3-bullseye-install, rescue only), the B3 LED ends up in a loop blinking: 1/2 sec yellow, out,1/2 sec purple/pink, out, 3 sec green, out, repeat.

Does this mean someting?

Yes, the rescue script on the key is supposed to spell relevant number from ...

Thanks for moving the forum to excito.org. I was happy to find it again after some time the forum was not reachable. Meanwhile running kernel 6.1.128-1
CODE: SELECT ALL

Linux b3-hiiumaa.6.1.128-1 #1 Sun Feb 2 04:45:08 CET 2025 armv5tel GNU/Linux


Thanks. The kernel packaging routines were ...

Hello everyone,

I've just released the debian trixie image for the B3. As usual for the debian images, this image is constructed from 3 different projects : the bookworm OS image itself, an install/rescue system and an installer script.

Current users of the bookworm image can also directly ...

OK after a awful lot of cleaning work (the wiki was filled with more than 500k spam articles and users) the wiki is back online on https://wiki.excito.org with proper locks in place. Let's hope it'll hold better.

ahoff wrote: 14 Apr 2025, 13:39 Nice.
I've found the site to be very slow lately. Hope it gets a little faster on your server.

Yes apparently it was the wiki that was causing issues. I don't know if I'll restart it or not as most of its contents are outdated anyway...

Hello all,

In the last few days there has been some changes regarding hosting of excito websites (mainly forum, wiki and install server). I've managed to have the excito.org domain transferred to me ; I will move all service on my own server for time being on this domain. forum.excito.org is now ...

What is the delay with renewing the domain? Is there anything we can do to help, such as crowdfunding?

The excito domains (including excito.com and excito.org) is owned by B2BCS company in Canada, they are responsible for renewing the domains (I don't have access to that). They don't mind paying ...

While you recover the domain, where can we find b3-bookworm-install-1.0.zip?

I have setup install.excito.com to the same location, install files are available at http://install.excito.com/latest/b3/

I don't see the install script in this image here: https://github.com/Excito/bookworm-image ...

OldB3User wrote: 01 Apr 2024, 10:48 Is anyone else getting a 403 error when trying to update from repo.excito.org?

Yes I'm aware, domain was parked, we are working on it to get it back online.

I only can install Bookworm with 10Gb space.
I want to use the whole disk with Debian bookworm.

As stated in the install.ini file :
## size (default: 10; minimal 8): size of system partition to create in GiB (if applicable). Use 'full' to use
## all the available space.
You need to set size ...

What OS are you guys running? i am used to run Debian based distros so the Debian image for B3 is most natural if i decide to start tinkering and go down that road.
With the Debian image, will i get the same web user interface, services and experience as with original Excito right after install ...

Hello,


Thinking of installing an SSD. Is it something i should think about if doing so?
Can i change some settings to prolong the life of the SSD, or some other settings that puts B3/SSD to sleep when it's not needed, fast access time is not of importance in this case.

Using SSD in a B3 is ...

It's much easier to download the bookworm image and remove the image parameter in the install.ini file