So bummed that I missed this and the sony refurbs on woot too. I believe that the mobo has a minisd on it to provide the boot environment. It should be pretty easy to load a new OS and make it do whatever you want. Not to mention an easy way to back up the current system. :)by gzader - Debian
Try starting here: http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,1042,1111#msg-1111by gzader - Debian
If you get it working, another option is rdiff-backup. It's like rsync but it does offsets for your file changes. So if you delete a file and x amount of time later you realize your mistake it might still be in the backup depending on how full that TB drive gets. I've got a two nas systems I built. The primary is 2.3TB and the backup is 5.5TB. The nice thing is I can restore withby gzader - Debian
http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/armel/vlc/download Does it not work if you use apt-get? Assuming you already have sound working, I would think installing vlc would be pretty easy.by gzader - Debian
Just for the record this works on what I'll guess is the cheaper one PG referred to: lsusb shows: Bus 001 Device 004: ID 1267:0a01 Logic3 / SpectraVideo plc Which I'm going to guess is it. Back of the plug says: Model PD552 USB 3d sound I looked over my own config and was on a similar path but the asound.conf is what did it. Thanks PG btw: two stations for fun...by gzader - Debian
I've heard that the different version have different amounts of memory. Can anyone confirm this? I have two US versions, that look to be only different by the lan cable it came with and printing on the box. Both have 128MB.by gzader - Debian
I run both of mine on a 8GB stick. It gives me enough room to share a few files on the flash rather than having to mess with a hard drive. You can also do this right off the dockstar. Basically copying everything from one stick to the other. There is a post already in this forum on how to do it. It's from a few months ago.by gzader - Debian
I have an 8GB Verbatim. It ONLY boots on warm boots, not cold. I have the same model on two DS's with the same warm boot results. I assume the drive speeds would be the same. The lsusb says (if I read it correctly) that it's a Kingston product. >sudo hdparm -tT /dev/sda /dev/sda: Timing cached reads: 516 MB in 2.00 seconds = 257.54 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads:by gzader - Debian
That's fantastic. Can you post source and the model number in case others would like to play with it?by gzader - Debian
sudo apt-get install usbutils Thanks!!! My life is better now.by gzader - Debian
A couple of us are looking at this on another forum. A member their found a similar datasheet for the processor. Temps measured have been in the 100-120f range so it's inside the curve with room to spare. The device does get warm. A few more more holes to vent heat might help but it seems to be fine. If you start getting your CPU running under a heavier load you may want to monitor tempby gzader - Debian
How did you get lsusb? I dont seem to have that on mine. I did get a very crummy sound card to work but it's distorted. It's also distorted in windows so I don't feel so bad. I just wanted to see if it could work. Next up might be a budget internet radio player. One thing I saw is their are settings for changing latency. No idea if that will help or not. On the off chance yoby gzader - Debian
I used DD rather than TAR because I had a lot of mounted directories so the exclude list was getting pretty annoying. I agree though, TAR for most systems would likely be a better system. Another option would be using rsync. You can use that to do incremental backups. I've built two NAS boxes and use RSYNC to copy the contents from one to the other on a regular basis. So far I've nby gzader - Debian
Some where along the way I started getting: No usable dialog-like program is installed, so the dialog based frontend cannot be used. My fix (I believe it's fixed, haven't seen the error so far) was: sudo apt-get install whiptail I'm not running root so I have to use sudo. If you are running as root you can omit the "sudo" part. Hope that helps someone or geneby gzader - Debian
Oops. Didnt see yours when I posted mine. I've mod alerted mine to get it killed. :) I'm back in for one more!by gzader - Debian
I used DD to copy my working Deb install to a larger usb stick (already partitioned). Of course because I used DD I ended up with the wrong sized partition. Here's a fix to get the size restored. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/df-reports-wrong-disk-size-681952/#post3339615 But skip step 8. That would turn on the journal and make your partition an ext3 rather tby gzader - Debian
You might start here: http://community.zenoss.org/docs/DOC-5838 The source builds work on non-x86 so ARM should have a shot. The above link will have you get all the apt's you need and then check out the source via SVN. Or source tarball here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/zenoss/files/zenoss-3.0%20%28Latest%20Stable%29/zenoss-3.0.2/zenoss-3.0.2.tar.gz/downloadby gzader - Debian
Just a thought... how much cache is the system using? Have you tried playing with the swapiness setting? Here's a faq on it: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq Might be worth a test.by gzader - Debian
At first it didn't work and I posted that here, but after unplugging it and unplugging the network cable (may or may not be needed) it worked fine the second time. Gotta remove that other post too now. :) The mount command for those who might need it: mount /dev/sda1 /mnt :) Thanks all, hkramski, ano !by gzader - Debian
Broke mine! woohoo! So after getting most of my config right, I've killed it with the kernel update. I'm very used to using apt-get update / upgrade as a matter of course. In the dockstar realm, that killed me as described by the reason above. I can get into the dockstar but not into debian. The dmesg dump ends with: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready -- edit--by gzader - Debian
I looked at the script but don't understand the language enough to see whats missing. It might be as simple as some quotes. I don't think it made it far enough to cause you harm but can't say that for sure either. I would avoid rebooting until there is an update. It looks like it's writing a built system to the nand so it should be able to recover regardless. I'mby gzader - Rescue System
Perhaps a script that would get the latest uboot, make it executable and run it, as well as one for debian?by gzader - Rescue System
To save googling: APIPA range 169.254.0.0 -169.254.255.255 The only issue with the "rescueboot" filename option is that it becomes a point for something malicious to happen. Granted the chance of this happening are very low but if hacker X wanted to cause mayhem, just dropping that file onto your stick could cause your system to get rebuilt. Now, if you did something like that andby gzader - Rescue System
What is that taking up in resources? Memory and disk space? Thanks!! I was debating doing this and now it looks to be quite easy thanks to you both.by gzader - Debian
Hopefully you found an answer to this. On mine, I had one IP for the debian boot and another for the pogo plug boot. This is before I made changes to my network config. The reason for this (I think) is pogo boots with no hostname and debian boots with "debian" as the host name. My linksys box gave each one a different IP address. Best bet is to look at what addresses have been aby gzader - Debian
I think the general consensus is that it's likely an issue with the flash drive you have selected. If you search some of the other posts here you'll see more info. My flash has the opposite problem. It seems to prefer cold boots.by gzader - Debian
The price has gone back up on the 16. The other is still $15 with it looks like free shipping. Is it just me or would this just about fit on the dockstars top port. The cable would likely break it off but with right hack you could get this into one very small box. If anyone finds a cheap 7-10 inch display, please do post it. I'm thinking car pc. :)by gzader - Debian
Argh, ate my post somehow. I'd add a vote for nano as well. Netcat sounds like a good option. Is there a benefit with having two IPs for the box, a fixed known good IP and DHCP address? The known would be the fall back method in case you can't get DHCP for whatever reason. A webmin style interface would likely help the most users (least experienced). I'm not sure how muchby gzader - Rescue System
Some USB sticks tend to only work on warm boots or cold boots. If you find lots of input output errors it can mean your stick is going bad. I've got an ativa (office depot brand) 4GB stick that works well on cold starts and tends to fail out on warm starts. Was about to try an 8GB verbatim... ah well. :)by gzader - uBoot
Adding Ubuntu to your windows box is very easy. Plus it makes a great rescue environment. Knoppix is great and it's how I got back into unix/linux. But the extra speed of having it on disk is really worth it. At least try it on a USB stick. :)by gzader - uBoot