Re: pogoplug saga
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 10:45:43AM +0100, RichardBown 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
Clearly that has to be wrong. /dev/sda is the entire device without
partitions, so if / is the entire disk, then it can't have partitions,
so that does not work. No way.
> 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 ?
The bootloader is not really something debian can control for most systems
(excluding x86 PCs and a few specific machines like powerpc and sparc
systems with openfirmware which have standard boot interfaces).
> 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
Probably worth starting with a static IP until you get things working.
You should be able to ask debootstrap to add the 'ssh' package (I assume
you wanted ssh, not ssl).
--
Len Sorensen
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