Pogoplug V4 for newbs doesn't show ALARM Help!

[hale93]

Hi my name is Joe, I am such a newbie to the pogoplug products, I have a series 4 that I need help on. First of all I need help because I am not familiar with all the terms and knowledge on arch linux so bear with me. Ok I have installed arch linux arm on a 32 gig thumb drive and it has the alarm boot on it, and the other seagate 1 TB plugged in on the top for storage, everything works fine. Then when I had a power outage, I see that the storage has a red x so it must be offline. So I did all the unplug and remove the usb stick and plug it in, and remove the storage hdd also and no luck. I have rebooted my modem and router and still nothing, there is no trace of the isp # and do not see any alarm address, and no LAN address numbers at all.
Now I can't see it on my network, I have tried all the reboot, unplug routers and modems, unplug the pogoplug removed the 1 TB hard drive and I have to leave the usb stick in if not the pogoplug green light will just blink. So how can I fix this or if I have to go do it all over again? I can't even SSH into ALARM because I have no clue what is the ip address.
Please help me, please direct me as to direction after direction on what to do. I don't have another pogoplug product and I do not have another computer with linux installed. I will take any advice and please keep it simple or so I can copy paste into ways so I can ssh into my pogoplug again. Thank you so much in advance.

[moonman]

Download kubuntu iso. Burn the iso to a cd/dvd or make a bootable usb stick (there are plenty of guides how to do it).
Boot it up from usb/cd.
Open terminal.
Plugin your usb stick that contains your alarm install.
Run "dmesg" in terminal and note what the name of the stick is (it will look something like sdb or sdc or sdd)
Now run "sudo fsck /dev/sdd2" and fix any errors that come up.

[hale93]

Thank you for all your help, I got to work thanks for all your help you guys are the best. One more question can someone give me directions on line for line how to install samba so I can copy line for line to ssh, I am still too new, so please give instructions on a webpage or anything that can be descriptive enough so I can add samba for all my media to share off my pogoplug v4. Thank you so much in advance you guys are so helpful, I can not praise how much you guys save me a lot of grief for all this help, and I am searching a lot on the forums for more help thanks again.

[grayman4hire]

http://bit.ly/17PF189

[hale93]

Ok thanks i have searched through a lot of websites, and most are a little confusing. So I have tried this website: http://blog.qnology.com/2013/03/tutoria ... linux.html . It helped me a lot, but I am stuck on one part of the commands, I have done all of these commands till this point.
#Create a 2nd Partition on your USB Drive
/sbin/fdisk /dev/sda

# Type in the following commands to create a 2nd
# partition on your USB hard drive
#
# WARNING - HARD DRIVE SHOULD NOT CONTAIN ANY DATA,
# EXCEPT ALARM INSTALLATION ON 1st PARTITION:
#
# p # list current partitions
# n # new partition
# p # primary partition
# <enter> # default to second partition
# <enter> # default start block
# <enter> # default end block #use the whole flash drive
# w # write new partition to disk

#Format newly created 2nd partition, label as USB
#a reboot may be required for new partition
#to be recognized
mkfs.ext3 -L USB /dev/sda2

#mount disk
mkdir -p /media/usb

#mount 2nd partition (/dev/sdb1)
mount /dev/sda2 /media/usb

#install samba and upgrade everything
pacman -Syu samba

#Create folder we'll be sharing
#will also hide the swap and lost+found folder
mkdir -p /media/usb/share

#download example smb.conf for public share
#no authentication require, everyone has
#read/write access to / (root$) and usb (/media/usb/share)
cd /etc/samba

Now when I add this next line here: wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/42238/pogoplug/v2/smb.conf , it says: -bash wget: command is not found. So if anyone can help me please give me the correct line to add in and where exactly do I put it, I am sorry I am still learning, and you guys help me out a lot so please tell me how to fix this and please be descriptive as a newbie perspective. Thank you in advance.

[moonman]

Just an FYI you can google "what is wget in linux" and then "install wget in archlinux" or something along the lines. Not to be rude or anything, but we can't hold your hand everytime whenever a little problem like this arises.

To answer your question, you need to install wget. Run this command:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'pacman -Sy wget')

[hale93]

Thanks moonman, it worked and sorry for asking too many question, it won't happen again i didn't know all I had to do was add that one line. Sorry and thanks again.