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Re: Debian Wheezy on Pogoplug Pro V3 - 9 years ago

Thanks Bodhi! this should be simpler to use. will look for it, although doubt if it would be available.

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Re: Debian Wheezy on Pogoplug Pro V3 - 9 years ago

Thanks Bodhi! the SATA-eSATA cable and the eSATA enclosure thing had crossed my mind earlier, but they are tough to find here online (only eSATA-to-eSATA cable available), and whatever is available is ridiculously costly. i will check the local computer parts market and tech forums here soon now. also, if an enclosure is not used, how will the HDD get the power supply is what i have a doubt

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Re: Debian Wheezy on Pogoplug Pro V3 - 9 years ago

Hello Bodhi! the device's been lying idle since sometime now. i wanted to attach an HDD to it using the SATA port, purchased a 3.5" USB-SATA casing too for the purpose, and wrote to the person from whom i had purchased the pogo on how to attach the HDD, but haven't got any reply till now. searched for the same on the web, but found nothing. then got caught up in other stuff and

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Re: Debian Wheezy on Pogoplug Pro V3 - 9 years ago

thanks @Gravelrash and @bodhi! i will be using the plug just for the purposes mentioned in pt. #2, and hence it will make sense to use USB-stick for the rootfs. i will connect the HDD and check and will then post back here.

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Re: Debian Wheezy on Pogoplug Pro V3 - 9 years ago

alright. thanks! some trivial questions that i have: 1. i hope a sandisk cruzer blade 4gb would be good enough for debian? or 8gb would be better? i will be replacing the present USB-stick with this. 2. will also be connecting an HDD via SATA to the plug. would you recommend installing debian to that instead and booting from it? or USB is fine? pls suggest.

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Re: Debian Wheezy on Pogoplug Pro V3 - 9 years ago

alright. so booted the Pogo on debian! i recalled that i had replaced the original bootfiles of rootfs y'day with the ones in the latest kernel archive, so i just re-installed the rootfs on the USB-stick, ignoring step 4 of the installation-process, connected the stick to the Pogo, and was able to boot into debian. have done update and upgrade too. so now bodhi, in order to upgrade the

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Re: Debian Wheezy on Pogoplug Pro V3 - 9 years ago

thanks! yes, even i had the same doubt, but was lost at step 4 of kernel installation. will try this and report back.

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Re: Debian Wheezy on Pogoplug Pro V3 - 9 years ago

Okay, so Debain's not booting. the light on the USB-stick blinks 3-4 times, then nothing. no IP address being assigned by the router. posting what i had done: 1. formatted a USB-stick to ext3 on a separate linux-box; extracted the rootfs Debian-3.17.0-oxnas-tld-1-rootfs-bodhi.tar.bz2 to it. for the installation, i had followed the below steps: Quotebodhi INSTALLATION: Installati

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Re: Debian Wheezy on Pogoplug Pro V3 - 9 years ago

alright. thanks! :thumbsup:

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Re: Debian Wheezy on Pogoplug Pro V3 - 9 years ago

thanks @GraveIrash! understood. @bodhi - i ran through the steps mentioned in the 2013.10 U-Boot for Pogoplug V3 (OXNAS) thread. it went fine. however, i halted at step 9, which is: Quotebodhi 9. Erase 1 block starting 0x00100000 (See caveat in step 2, do not do this step this if the kernel is stock kernel, or not a FDT kernel) /usr/sbin/flash_erase /dev/mtd0 0x00100000 1 Erasing

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Re: Debian Wheezy on Pogoplug Pro V3 - 9 years ago

so this is how i should proceed i think: 1. prepare a rootfs with Debian-3.17.0-oxnas-tld-1-rootfs-bodhi.tar.bz2 on a linux-box 2. then install the new u-boot on pogo pro 3. plug in the new rootfs in pogo pro 4. install the latest kernel linux-3.18.5-oxnas-tld-1-bodhi.tar.bz2 (using the procedure outlined for plug with new u-boot) correct?! P.S. - i would also be using an HDD

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Re: Debian Wheezy on Pogoplug Pro V3 - 9 years ago

thanks! yes, looks like will need the same parts as i found out.

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Re: Best Torrent Software ? - 9 years ago

Thanks Don! yes, can't go wrong with bodhi. ;)

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Re: Debian Wheezy on Pogoplug Pro V3 - 9 years ago

thanks bodhi! and sorry for late reply. for a serial connection, would these be reqd? 1. USB to TTL converter - PL-2303HX (or PL-2303TA?!) 2. a DVD-ROM drive audio-cable if yes, i'll be getting them from ebay. also, i understand that proceeding without a serial connection is risky, but alternatively, we can SSH into the Pogo too, correct?!

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Re: Best Torrent Software ? - 9 years ago

Hello Don! am looking forward to installing Debain Wheezy on a recently acquired (used) Pogoplug Pro . i have created a thread asking for suggestions on where to start from. i have used Deluge earlier on my Goflex Home. i had installed it using the guide for raspberry pi. i had really liked Deluge. simple to set up. although rtorrent+rutorrent is still lighter on the resources i guess, but

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Debian Wheezy on Pogoplug Pro V3 - 9 years ago

Hello! i recently got a used Pogoplug Pro V3. its in factory-condition. i have also registered at pogoplug's site for the service. however, i wish to install Debian Wheezy on it. am not sure from where to start. i searched the forum, and found some threads from the forum's star 'bodhi', which are: Linux Kernel 3.18 Pogo V3 (Oxnas OX820) package and rootfs (Flattened Devi

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Re: Build your own Pro NAS – Seagate Goflex Net with Debian Linux, RAID1 and OpenMediaVault - 10 years ago

IanD Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Ok, I've tried 3 different usb drives with various > combinations of etx2 & ext3(updated accordingly in > uBoot), with DavyGravy & Bohdis' images, with the > SATA disk plugged in or not... still nothing. > I'm wondering now if my USB drives are too > old/unsuitable, so I will buy

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Re: practical learning - where to start from?! - 10 years ago

hello there! wanted to tell that the spare laptop HDD that i was using with the dock, it crashed one day. i tried to run fsck for it on Ubuntu, but the drive would just keep busy, and used to get stuck in being mounted on the OS. i then tried to create an img of the HDD, but there too, it got stuck at 85%, citing various errors. moreover, it started making loud noises (apart from clicking-soun

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Re: Build your own Pro NAS – Seagate Goflex Net with Debian Linux, RAID1 and OpenMediaVault - 10 years ago

yes, do try the last step suggested by bodhi. even i had problem booting in using Jeff's method as well as with davygravy's img, while the front LED on my GFH stayed solid green (though i hadn't set up NC at that time). i then later used bodhi's rootfs, plus update the uboot to the latest one uploaded by bodhi, and haven't looked back since! now am engaged in performing a

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Re: practical learning - where to start from?! - 10 years ago

aha! thanks! will make changes and a note of all the 3 above.

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Re: practical learning - where to start from?! - 10 years ago

bodhi, a few queries: 1. many-a-times, when i do 'apt-get update', i get error linking to the mirror. only after repeatedly trying (3-4 times) is debian able to successfully connect to the links and get update-info. should i change the mirror to the one nearest to my location, as instructed by Jeff? currently its the US mirror. 2. also, have been getting the 'FATAL: failed to

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Re: practical learning - where to start from?! - 10 years ago

thanks! i did an 'apt-get upgrade' a day back. nothing upgraded. but will keep a note about regeneration of ulnitrd img in case if its reqd. anytime. also, i had put the mount command for the HDD at the last of all the statements in rc.local (just above exit 0), but still, have made the changes to rc.local as told by you, as may be later on i put some script in there below HDD forget

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Re: practical learning - where to start from?! - 10 years ago

done! added an entry in rc.local as following: mount /dev/disk/by-label/LHDD /media/LHDD where, LHDD is the label of my laptop-HDD presently connected to the dock via SATA, and a dir i created by the same name (for easy identification) in /media to mount the HDD to. tested it. mounting fine upon boot. so the difference between (auto)mounting via entry in fstab & rc.local is that the

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Re: practical learning - where to start from?! - 10 years ago

ohk! thanks for informing about that! though i would seldom be unplugging/swapping the HDD, i had this in mind while putting an entry in the fstab with UUID, that perhaps, instead of UUID, putting an entry with the label would also work good. i will try that too now. also, will check mounting with /etc/rc.local. didn't know about that. one thing - if i run 'apt-get upgrade' so

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Re: practical learning - where to start from?! - 10 years ago

UPDATE: got the HDD mounted to a pre-created dir in /media, and added an entry for it using UUID in fstab, with the option of autoboot enabled. then created various folders in the mounted HDD, and configured samba to share the HDD with Windows. :) now onto setting up logitech media server. :)

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Re: practical learning - where to start from?! - 10 years ago

thanks bodhi! that was helpful. i tried to mount the HDD using pmount, but was given the error that the drive is not removable. came to know that for it to be mounted, will have to edit /etc/pmount.allow. anyway, i've slightly changed the requirement, and now want to create UUID entries for both my HDDs in fstab, and mount them on boot (whichever is plugged in at that time), as well as share

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Re: practical learning - where to start from?! - 10 years ago

thanks! now am stuck at one more (i presume 'trivial') point. LoL. now that the HDD is being detected, arises the issue of mounting and using it, or specifically, WHERE to mount it. i installed and set-up samba y'day, using the short and good guide from 'petergunn' here: http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,2340,2351#msg-2351 so now, i have created a folder name

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Re: practical learning - where to start from?! - 10 years ago

thanks a lot bodhi for that! clears it up well for me. option no. 4 it is for me then! and i just took the risk & flashed the new uBoot too successfully! :) i saw that you uploaded new rootfs and kernel images. tempted to try those too; although there's no real need to do that i suppose, but just itchy fingers of a learning neophyte; then i'll have 3 debian boot flash-drives w

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Re: practical learning - where to start from?! - 10 years ago

congrats bodhi! freeagent goflex too successfully recognised! :D after testing the laptop-HDD and writing the above post, i suddenly had an inkling to try and remove the freeagent drive's jacket and then try to mount it on the dock. but did a few tests afterwards. however, tried that thing now, pried open the enclosure of the freeagent HDD, mounted it on the dock, and voila! drive recogni

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Re: practical learning - where to start from?! - 10 years ago

should i attempt booting from SATA rootfs, after editing the uboot env variables? A GLEEFUL UPDATE!: i tested a spare laptop HDD with the SATA port on my GFH. got detected just fine! please have a look. 'fdisk' output: root@debian:~# fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 8076 MB, 8076132352 bytes 249 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1021 cylinders, total 15773696 sectors Units = sectors of

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