oxnas-install.sh from running arch-pogo

[litewait]

I have the Pink Pogo and I am struggling to upgrade all my packages (glibc is giving me fits). I thought a simpler way would be to grab another flash drive and just provision it with a new install and boot from that.

I tried getting blparam and such and modifying oxnas-install.sh, but there are too many dependencies on the original Pogo OS to make that feasible.

Is there instructions on how to provision a bootable Arch Pogo from an existing Arch Pogo system?

Thanks!

[WarheadsSE]

Extract the rootfs. Done.

[litewait]

Sorry, just to be clear:

cd /tmp/usb
tar xzf ArchLinuxARM-oxnas-latest.tar.gz

???

[litewait]

If that is what is required. As I try to unbundle the tar file, about a minute into it I get:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', './usr/lib/systemd/system/quotaon.service
tar: ./usr/lib/systemd: Cannot mkdir: Read-only file system
tar: ./usr/lib/systemd/system/quotaon.service: Cannot open: No such file or directory
./usr/lib/systemd/system/graphical.target
tar: ./usr/lib/systemd: Cannot mkdir: Read-only file system')

and the flash drive unmounts itself and I have to unplug/plug it to remount it.

Ideas?

[WarheadsSE]

You need to make sure the file system is writable. Duh.

[litewait]

Seeing as tar created 1245 files in /usr/ before I get that error I don't think the file system was read-only.

[WarheadsSE]

Well find out what changed then. Filesystems don't just switch without evidence.

[litewait]

Well I just moved the game over to an Ubuntu laptop.

1. Cleaned and created a partition on the 8GB flash drive and made it bootable.
2. mk2efs on the partition and labeled rootfs
3. Brought down the latest oxnas tar.gz
4. untar'ed into the drive
5. sync
6. Unmount

Put it in the PinkPogo and I just get a flashing green light.

Am I missing a step here?

[litewait]

Strange. Repeated those steps and now it boots!

Thanks for the help.

[pepedog]

You did this as root?
Has to be root when you extract.
Next thing to try mkfs.ext3