Re: pogoplug saga
On Sun, 18 May 2014 08:49:18 -0400
Nigel Sollars <nsollars@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> For the last parts ( DHCP SSH ), does the pogoplug have a serial
> console?. I stayed away from anything *plug since each iteration
> seamed to have serious errata in hardware. This included shiva and
> friends.
>
> Regards
Hi Nigel, thanks for the reply
No , unfortunately it doesn't. It would make things a lot easier if it
had.
But if I can get it running on the usb hd I can always mount it on this
laptop.
Thanks
>
>
> On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 5:45 AM, RichardBown <richard@g8jvm.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi
> > fstab question
> >
> > is there any order in which the logical partitions should be
> > numbered ? ie as deboostrap doesn't create fstab
> > I've used
> > # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> > #
> > # file system mount point type options
> > dump pass /dev/sda / ext3
> > defaults 0 1 /dev/sda1 /boot
> > ext3 ro,nosuid,nodev 0 2
> >
> > /dev/sda2 none swap sw
> > 0 0 proc /proc proc
> > defaults 0 0
> >
> > #/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,rw,sync,user,exec
> > 0 0 #/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom iso9660
> > noauto,ro,user,exec 0 0
> >
> > /dev/sda3 /tmp ext3 rw,nosuid,nodev
> > 0 2 /dev/sda4 /var ext3
> > rw,nosuid,nodev 0 2 /dev/sda5 /usr
> > ext3 rw,nodev 0
> > 2 /dev/sda6 /home ext3 rw,nosuid,nodev
> > 0 2
> >
> > and just numbered sequentially.
> >
> > Kernel question
> >
> > I've copied the kernel image from Arch as it was on a memory stick
> > that boots OK
> > is it still named uImage in debian ?
> >
> >
> > Bootloader question
> >
> > Is a bootloader required if uboot is being used ?
> >
> >
> > With drive plugged in now I added the above fstab and kernel
> > image , its trying to do something, but its not sending dhcp
> > requests. my /etc/network/interfaces looks like this
> >
> > auto lo
> > iface lo inet loopback
> >
> > # To use dhcp:
> > #
> > auto eth0
> > iface eth0 inet dhcp
> >
> > The router is telling me its not connected so dhcp is not running
> > and still how to get ssl running as this is a headless unit
> >
> > TIA
> >
>
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Best wishes /73
Richard Bown
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