Re: pogoplugV2
On Sun, 18 May 2014 11:31:19 -0400
"Lennart Sorensen" <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 04:07:17PM +0100, RichardBown wrote:
> > Hi Guys
> > Running Arch on my pogopig at the moment , using motion with a
> > webcam. It using a 8GB USB stick, I have, which I dont use, a 150GB
> > HD in a USB caddy.
> > Can I get Deb arm running on that, Arch is OK , but its got some
> > strange behaviour, and I'm reasonably familiar with Debian as I run
> > Mint on both machines here.
> >
> > What I'd like to do is,
> > continue using Motion on it, but also be able to use it for back up
> > from both the other computers, and maybe for my sons, but that would
> > mean some form of FTP, secure, remote access.
> > Am I right that it would run a little faster with a USB HD than
> > using the USB memory stick, I'd be able to a swap partion on it
> > without problems.
> > Or am I dreaming in cloud cuckoo land as normal :)
> > The pogopig is V2 , and running ARM5 arch at the moment.
> >
> > One thing that gave problems with Arch was it would only use 2.7GB
> > of the stick until I upgraded the kernel to later than 3.10.
> >
> > Is the install procedure similar, mount the usb hd and down load a
> > tarball and then unpack,,
>
> Did you try following something like this:
>
> http://www.miim.com/thebside/pogoplug/index.html
>
Something like that, without the mods for ext3,
strangely enough, I've just tried doing an install of Arch on the USD
HD , and thats failed to boot up, its dropped back to the ceadmin
password, so I'll try using those scripts and see if it will install on
the same USB HD.
Thanks
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Best wishes /73
Richard Bown
Email : richard@g8jvm.com
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