Comments on Installing Debian Squeeze On Pogoplug v3/Oxnas Cleanly

Just wanted to say thanks for posting this! Happily running Debian now.

Hi, how to install ftdi driver on this system?? Please for help!!

Quote: "The Pogoplug v3/Oxnas kernel supports only ext3 though"

 I guess you mean the Oxnas kernel supports ext3 only for its boot drive. Archlinux on the Pogoplug v3 with Oxnas kernel supports ext4 just fine, at least for non-boot drives.
(I'm currently running Archlinux on my Pogoplug v3 and have two ext4 formatted drives installed for samba shares.)

 Anyway, I'm thinking about moving on to Debian. What's your experience with Deabian on the Pogoplug so far? How is the package support? Do you have any experience with samba shares and how they perform on Debian/Pogoplug (transfer rates)?

 Thanks,

 Timo

Just 2 remarks:

To install qemu-arm-static package, be sure to enable the Universe depot on your live Ubuntu first, then update the depot sudo apt-get update 

There is a typo on base configuration on the system, LED shutdown. it should be /etc/rc0.d/K08halt not /etc/rc0.d/K081halt

Thanks for this very good manual. I thought I bricked my Pogoplug after an Arch-update, but now it's running perfect. One thing: under a not-live Linux you have to sudo mkdir /home/ubuntu; cd /home/ubuntu (perhaps also chown and chgrp).

Really thank you for this tuto, really, really, REALLY useful, i'll finally have a debian and ended with this Archlinux distribution which is unstable I found. I'm running on a Pogo for my domotica installation, it was ALWAYS loud to install something, because every time, the system was broken through different update... Good to know that I 'll manage better all this stuff with Debian now... THANK YOU, A LOT, REALLY !!!

hi,

 Thanks for this setup howto, it is very good. Only thing that might be worth adding, is how to setup the time (as we don't have a hardware clock, and my pogoplug keeps thinking it is 1970)

I'm installing ntp now, hoping that will fix it.

Another thing, I was wondering about the 

sudo mount --rbind /dev $pogodebian/dev

doesn't that mean the whole /dev folder from my ubuntu system will be copied to the usb drive? if not, why not? (apart from that it is not really possible)

Here is a hint for all of those facing failures after following the above directions. Instead of using the latest archive http://os.archlinuxarm.org/os/oxnas/ArchLinuxARM-2012.12-oxnas.tar.gz  use the older archive  - http://os.archlinuxarm.org/os/oxnas/ArchLinuxARM-2012.02-oxnas.tar.gz and you should be able to boot squeeze without any issues.

Would this work just as well on a sata drive?

I have a flash sata drive that I have put into the pogoplug case.

James

• Installing of the Wifi Driver for the Pogoplug Pro is not covered here, thus the resulting rootfs has no wifi support without executing additional steps.

Where can I find this steps?

TNX

Thanks, it resurrected an old pogoplug pro I'd long since given up on.

However, I also have a pogoplug pink which could do with this too. Any suggestions for the debootstrap and wget? 

after some night passed to try with arch linux without success.... :(

this guide solved me any problem!!!!

many many thanks!!

Mauro

An excellent step-by-step tutorial. I can't wait to get started. I have a newbee question regarding the initial requirements..."ALARM installed on your Pogoplug v3/Oxnas according to the official (link) tutorial".. (This link is dead)...and how do you get the ALARM installed? and I don't think there is any way to get SSH installed...Is it needed?

If anyone want an easier method, I prebuilt everything above. You just need to put all files on your USB drive and change to your MAC address.

Plus, I changed to Debian Archive source and disabled PGP check, so you can install packages with `apt-get`

https://github.com/louislam/pogoplug-v3-oxnas-debian-squeeze