I think, it's better to use debian installer apt-get
there are some preinstalled debian packages:
http://pastebin.com/72NhujEX
MyBookLive:~# dpkg -l
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-======================-======================-============================================================
ii ack-grep 1.92-1 grep-like program specifically for large source trees
ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups
ii apache2 2.2.9-10+lenny6 Apache HTTP Server metapackage
...snip...
with optware you dont know the corresponding gcc/glibc=libc6/kernel versions from the nslu2 cross compile environment
you linked to
feed=http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/ds101g/cross/stable/
some optware packages working good / some not
further infos:
http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/Optware/Platforms
Synology DS101G
Processor: Freescale MPC8241, 266MHz
Architecture: ppc32
Memory: 64MB RAM, 16MB Flash
Current toolchain: powerpc-603e-linux/gcc-3.3.4-glibc-2.3.3
My Book Live is a PowerPC 44x with kernel 2.6.32 / gcc 4.2.2 / glibc 2.11.2
libc6 2.11.2-2 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared libraries
MyBookLive:~# uname -a
Linux MyBookLive 2.6.32.11-svn21605 #1 Fri Oct 15 17:13:23 PDT 2010 ppc GNU/Linux
# cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.32.11-svn21605 (steveh@steveh-desktop) (gcc version 4.2.2) #1 Fri Oct 15 17:13:23 PDT 2010
full dmesg see here:
http://pastebin.com/W0WfT4Wp