N00bie trying to reinstall Everything from the scratch!

[montsa007]

Hello all,

First things first, am a complete n00b to linux, and know nothing about it. All I can do is login to putty, nothing else.

I had purchased this Goflex base, a pen drive with Webmin, Itransmission and Samba on it plugged into the base and a 1 TB Seagate hard drive to store the downloads.

Used to download everything fine but I had a bad habit of just switching off the device without doing a proper shutdown by going into webmin (Because I had to run for office in the morning and was a pain in the bum to do the whole proper shutdown, which I believe caused the software to break). It wont let me login to Itransmission or Webmin lately.

I formatted the pen drive yesterday on a windows laptop and inserted it in the base, removed the HDD and tried the following without any success - http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv5 ... oflex-home

ssh USERNAME_hipserv2_seagateplug_XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX@GOFLEX_HOME_IP
(put the username as 'root' as this is what I used to login into putty)
Tried both commands
ssh root_hipserv2_seagateplug_XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX@GOFLEX_HOME_192.168.0.150
root_hipserv2_seagateplug_XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX@GOFLEX_HOME_192.168.0.150
Can someone please help me as to how to proceed?

P.S. - The device was previously running absolutely fine so am pretty sure, what you call bootloader/kernel on the base is hacked?

[moonman]

Yes, bootloader was overwritten so that's why it won't boot up.

There are 2 options:
1.restore the device to factory and then start over, like you did last time: http://support.goflexhome.hipserv.com/e ... index.html

2. Get a linux Live cd, format the USB drive as ext3, and extract archlinuxarm tarball into it.

First is self explanatory, second is all over this forum

[montsa007]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('moonman', 'Y')es, bootloader was overwritten so that's why it won't boot up.

There are 2 options:
1.restore the device to factory and then start over, like you did last time: http://support.goflexhome.hipserv.com/e ... index.html

2. Get a linux Live cd, format the USB drive as ext3, and extract archlinuxarm tarball into it.

First is self explanatory, second is all over this forum

[WarheadsSE]

http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv5 ... oflex-home

Click on the Installation tab.

[montsa007]

I really tried everything you guys posted here.

-The Goflex home does not have a white light
-I cannot get the Goflex home connect to the Seagate Dashboard software (It just doesn't want to find it)
-I logged in to putty and somehow found that it has UBoot installed (The seller must have done something)


Here is what I did after I came home
-Tried to restore the base to stock/factory firmware but, it shows blinking green, then blinking orange and then steady green light
-Formatted the external HDD on a Windows PC, inserted in the base (Can see it now in the DHCP list)
-Tried running a bunch of commands without knowing what I am doing (Pen drive was removed, just the HDD was connected)

I'll pay anyone $10-20 to please fix this mess + provide me a way to restore the image on the pen drive if something happens in future.

This ***** is something I cannot clean

[montsa007]

As a last attempt, am writing the archlinux image in the pen drive and will try to get something done.

[montsa007]

Tried writing the archlinux image in the pen drive, booted and logged into putty, dont know what to do next.
Can't even flash it back to factory firmware

[WarheadsSE]

Did you extract it as root, not sudo

[montsa007]

I don't know what you mean by that, also my computers drivers went crazy, no sound USB ports don't work and wifi won't work either. Have to reinstall windows

[montsa007]

I want to do this, but dont know what commands to put
http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,8416,8422
Once am on stock 2.5 I can download torrents directly from the default software Seagate has