Next, you will want to partition your flash drive using fdisk.
The first drive you plug in usually becomes /dev/sda1 but you can easily check that by running dmesg. Next thing you want to do is to plug in the flash drive you will be using for installation. You will probably notice that most filesystems other than /tmp are mounted read-only and what you can do with the device is rather limited.
#Install debian wheezy dockstar password
As soon as the device grabs a lease from DHCP you should be able to ssh to it: ssh default password is ceadmin.įrom here, you can explore a little bit and poke around the device. Let’s say that address is 192.168.1.100 or something like that. That’s because I gave it a unique low IP just to make it easy to remember. In my DHCP list you can see PogoPlug on top. But since I use a lot of roaming mobile devices and share the network with people who couldn’t be bothered to set up static IP on their machines I use DHCP reservations to accomplish that. This makes network issues easier to troubleshoot, and actually lets me make sense network logs. I permanently assign IP addresses to machines on my network. You will probably notice that my DHCP leases are set to never expire – that’s actually on purpose. For example, my D-Link router shows me something like this: The easiest way to do this is to log into your router and watch it’s DHCP client list. The first step is figuring out the IP your PogoPlug will get from the DHCP. It is more or less a push-button setup… Only you have to push a few dozen buttons, and they need to spell out a few unix commands.
#Install debian wheezy dockstar how to
I can’t take any credit for figuring out how to perform this installation – I simply followed this excellent writeup an used one of their provided self-installation scripts. This is exactly what I did – I installed Debian Squeeze on an external 2GB flash drive connected to the device and so far it has been working great. Which is great, because if you manage to fuck up the installation somehow, all you need to do to go back to square one is to pull out the flash drive and power cycle. Or better yet, you can configure it to boot from an attached flash drive instead of the internal storage. Out of the box it is running a locked down version of Arch Linux with proprietary extensions. By default, it ships without a hard drive, which is likely why it is so inexpensive. It is driven by low power, Feroceon 88FR131 rev 1 (v5l) CPU and has 256MB of RAM, a Gigabit Ethernet card, and 4 USB 2.0 pots which is actually not bad for a super-cheep NAS device. The device you are looking at here is called PogoPlug and it is probably one of the best purchases I have made in the last few months.
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