I'm waiting with bated breath :-) too.by bodhi - uBoot
codier, Sorry, what is GV?by bodhi - Debian
Thanks Peter. TightVNC-java works great with Firefox. Very fast.by bodhi - Debian
Here is how to install CUPS: # apt-get install cups foomatic-filters cups-driver-gutenprint ghostscript-cups - Out of the box supported printers: BubbleJet DeskJet HP LaserJet Series PCL 6 HP Color LaserJet Series PCL 6 Generic text-only printer Generic PostScript Printer - To manage the printer (e.g. installing correct driver), use a browser and log in using root password (orby bodhi - Debian
You can control Transmission using Web browser, see info here. To set up, using SSH, log in to the box, stop transmission, and edit the file /var/lib/transmission-daemon/info/settings.json. The most relevant parameters are user name, password, and port. To keep it simple, use "transmission" as user name, and choose any unused port number in the high range such as one below, and tby bodhi - Debian
Peter, thanks for your help. However, I could not install tightvnc-java # apt-get install tightvnc-java Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package tightvnc-java is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source E: Packagby bodhi - Debian
petergunn Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > VNC server can be accessed through a web browser > without installing any software on the client PC. > Just browse to http://:5800 when vnc server is > running. > > You could also install xrdp on top of VNC server > and use Windows rdesktop for access. > > -PG Peter, I tried gnome-by bodhi - Debian
Thanks peter, it's great to know. I'll try the combination Gnome/VNC server/Web browser to see if the Dockstar can handle it well enough with its limited memory. I think using this occasionally should not be a problem.by bodhi - Debian
rat-netbook, This is a great low power Linux box. Like you've said, it can do most things I'd want to use it for. The only thing so far that I have not been able to find is a desktop such as Gnome and you can use it with a browser. One that's similar to this Sun Secure Global Desktop. I've tried many different solutions that others have used and posted here (fluxbox, Gnby bodhi - Debian
I've setup a 2nd Dockstar using the Debian USB stick from my first Dockstar. Worked great after installing UBoot as described in Jeff's script wget -P /tmp http://jeff.doozan.com/debian/uboot/install_uboot_mtd0.sh chmod +x /tmp/install_uboot_mtd0.sh /tmp/install_uboot_mtd0.sh --nopromptby bodhi - uBoot
Can we install Debian on it ? i.e. does Jeff's script work with this Pogoplug?by bodhi - Debian
kraqh3d, That would be great! And thanks for your work on XBMC early days. It's the best media player software I've ever used. I've learned a lot about how to build user interface with XML since I've started using it. Just like I've learned a lot about Linux system admin here in this forum. Many thanks to Jeff for his works and hosting this. bodhiby bodhi - Debian
Swap file is great. I created the swapfile at the root of the boot drive. So if the boot drive designation was moved around by other drive such as the Seagate GO drive connected to the small USB port, then it's still correct in fstab because it is simply stated as a file at root directory. I've barely used up memory, unless running a lot of video streaming while also using webmin to monby bodhi - Debian
kraqh3d, Thanks for this restart automount mod! fantastic! It is as flexible as it can be. Especially when using a swap file on the boot USB thumb drive (my boot drive has a single partition). I can now connect the boot drive to any of 4 USB ports. No need for hard coded fstab entry :-) I've also defined /media as samba share, so all automounted USB drives are visible to other PCs inby bodhi - Debian
The output of blkid command: # blkid /dev/sda1: UUID="2f55c61c-11c5-4bca-8ccf-50d2a2ffe970" TYPE="ext2" /dev/sdb1: LABEL="USBTEST1" UUID="E20C879F0C876D7B" TYPE="ntfs" I was thinking this could be piped to awk or regex to extract the sd devices and pmount them with either label or device name. Would that work? (I've only used awk occaby bodhi - Debian
Cool! that works great. No longer seeing the filesystem mount warning messages. I'm guessing the typo was related to ENV{fs}="-t %E{ID_FS_TYPE}".by bodhi - Debian
Strange, I'm still seeing the same pmount messages with the new rules (I restarted the dockstar to make sure the rules take effect).by bodhi - Debian
Perhaps you can post your dmesg contents for both of your dockstars after reboot? there must be some differences.by bodhi - Debian
kraqh3d, it did not work. I assume we're still having the startup order problem?by bodhi - Debian
Yes, busybox-syslogd is really nice that all logging going to RAM, without the logging it's like we're blind :-) And no, I'm not concerned about those mounting messages, as long as it mount the correct filesystem, it's all that matter. Just thought that it seems odd because it behaves like the old version of pmount (according to the man page, this new version of "pmount&by bodhi - Debian
kraqh3d, Question: if we implement the script to automount the USB disk at startup, would that be executed at the end of /etc/rc.local ? is that early enough? FYI. These aumounting messages were also logged in dmesg: [ 475.688583] UDF-fs: No anchor found [ 475.692094] UDF-fs: Rescanning with blocksize 2048 [ 475.787084] UDF-fs: No anchor found [ 475.790595] UDF-fs: No partitionby bodhi - Debian
kraqh3d, I've also looked at usbmount option, in the usbmount.conf file it has a list of file systems to try: ... # Filesystem types: removable storage devices are only mounted if they # contain a filesystem type which is in this list. FILESYSTEMS="vfat ext2 ext3 ext4 hfsplus" ... So it seems possible to use this wrapper to force pmount to mount the interested file syby bodhi - Debian
I used busybox-syslogd to see the kernel messages. And the logread showed pmount tried all these file systems until it hits NTFS! UDF-fs, ISOFS, FAT, VFS, hfs, VFS, EXT4-fs, REISERFS, SGI XFS, XFS, JFS, omfs I've just tried the option --type auto in the udev rules as you've suggested, and pmount did not attempt to mount at all (I guess it does not understand the option so it exiteby bodhi - Debian
I see. Tried it and saw that message. It's really handy if you have some non-tech users using the dockstar. This addition will help a lot. That and a warning "don't unplug it while you're using it" LOL. Update: pmount is still logging a lot of kernel messages while trying to get file systems info. Even though the man page said it should not in version 0.9.17 or newer (by bodhi - Debian
LOL. That's really cool! it does work :-). What happen? did it parse the whole string for the word lazy?by bodhi - Debian
kraqh3d, thanks for the new udev rules. It works very well. A really nice touch is using the label mount point. I've also tried to reboot and found the same behavior, I had to unplug and replug the drives to get them auto-mounted. Also, one more thing. When I'm at the directory where the drive is, just for testing purpose I unplugged that USB drive and udev can't unmount itby bodhi - Debian
My approach is for this is: after you've installed samba package, look at the installation log right away to see which packages are recommended and install them, too. Sometime there are also suggested packages on the list. When you've noticed something is missing, go back to the installation log and look at that list.by bodhi - Debian
kraqh3d Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You don't need autofs. Some simple udev rules > will do this for you. I like to use pmount since > it handles the creation and removal the mount > points in /media/{DEVICE} without any extra > effort. > > This is my rules file: > > root@debian:~# cat > /etc/udev/rules.d/99-auby bodhi - Debian
Thanks kraqh3d. You're absolutely right about the sync vs async option. Writing over the network is pretty slow anyway, and my main purpose for this Dockstar is to serve files to other PCs and XBMC, too. So the disk write is not a priority. I've downloaded webmin a while ago but have not installed it, because I still want to try to figure out why autofs does not work the way we thinkby bodhi - Debian