Latest concise installation guide for PogoPlug E02

I followed the http://projects.doozan.com/debian/ a couple of years ago, it worked. somehow, USB went bad, trying to creating a new one. But get lost. Neither wheezy nor squeeze was working. reading the sticky thread trying to go with uboot and kernel 3.16, but unsuccessful.

Do we have the latest instructions that work for E02 PogoPlug?

Here is what I did

1) u-boot following http://projects.doozan.com/uboot/
cd /tmp
wget http://projects.doozan.com/uboot/install_uboot_mtd0.sh
chmod +x install_uboot_mtd0.sh
./install_uboot_mtd0.sh

2) mke2fs -L rootfs /dev/sda1

3) mount /dev/sda1 /tmp/media

4) untar kernel 3.16 to /tmp/media, create /tmp/media/etc/fstab to mount /dev/sda1 to root as ext2

5) sync/reboot

it didn't work

Log in to stock OS or Debian and then:

Create rootfs:
http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,12096

Install new u-boot:
http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?3,12381

That's it. You can do both while SSH into stock OS or Debian.

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thanks for links. Was having problems creating rootfs from OSX. Will try to do so from a regular Linux and report status.

Following instructions from bodhi, Pogo E02 was successfully installed with latest 3.18-5 debian.

Building rootfs using macosx was the culprit. Package osxfuse and fuse-ext2 on osx didn't work well. Once rebuilt from a Ubuntu station, it worked.

The pogoplug has some NAND error when checked, but it came up fine as well. I don't recall if the exact u-boot steps were followed. Need to dig it up.

Question: why the system come up with no swap?

root@debian:~# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 6.7G 655M 5.7G 11% /
udev 10M 0 10M 0% /dev
tmpfs 25M 104K 25M 1% /run
tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
tmpfs 50M 0 50M 0% /run/shm
tmpfs 123M 0 123M 0% /tmp

Swap is not enabled by default because bodhi tries to keep the Debian image as stock and light as possible. It's easy enough to create a swap file which performs similarly to a swap partition. In fact a swap file might be better because you can adjust it as needed.