Obligatory dumb post ;)

[rev667]

Hi everyone

I have a couple of noob questions regarding the Pogoplug E02.

Currently I have a Pogoplug E02 in a fetching shade of pink, a 4gb memory stick running alarm, this was done some time ago, everything worked and so I left it alone.
It is running a bunch of stuff, samba, a webserver, the original mypogo functionality (thanks moonman)

Now I have a Raspberry Pi running XBMC, and I am getting a new mobile 500gb usb hard drive...

My plan is to use the pogo to share this drive over the network and with mypogo share on the internet. However, if I understand correctly, my pogoplug uboot is out of date, there is some kind of 'new' kernel (kirkwood?) and probably a bunch of other software updates too.

So, option 1 :-

ssh into my existing pogoplug, and update uboot with "pacman -Sy uboot-pogo_e02".
Plug brand new 500gb usb hdd into my linux mint desktop, partition (8gb enough?) and format (ext2,3 or 4?) labelling the partition as 'rootfs'.
Then mount and extract the latest kernel (armv5, armv5te or kirkwood?) to the rootfs. unmount and unplug.
Powerdown the Pogoplug, remove the old memory stick, plug in the new hdd and power up.
ssh into new pogo with root/root then do all the other stuff...

Option 2 :-

Powerdown the pogoplug, remove memory stick, reboot (it should run the stock pogoplug os)
Connect new hdd, follow instructions from http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv5 ... 2-pinkgray
Install all the other stuff...

Am I doing it right?

So which is best?

Hope I haven't rambled on too much, it's a bit warm here

Rev667

[WarheadsSE]

I would suggest a proper upgrade _then_ installing the newer uboot. But yeah, you're on the mark.

[grayman4hire]

Skip updating your uBoot. No point, high risk and you'll lose the ability to boot up in the default Pogoplug OS.

Unplug your existing USB stick.
Boot up your Pogoplug to the default OS.
Setup your new USB Hard Drive following my tutorial (skip the uBoot section) - http://blog.qnology.com/2013/03/tutoria ... linux.html

[rev667]

Cool!

Thanks for the replys guys.

I am going to re-boot to stock Pogo OS

Plug in the usb hdd and follow greymans tutorial (keeping the old uboot just in case)

Then I need the missus to go away for a weekend so I can play without having to do stuff for her, she hates to see me sat still for too long. Last weekend I had to build a garden shed, this weekend I suspect she wants the kitchen decorating, the weekend after other rooms will follow, then something else...

Wonder if it would be worth giving her a "pamper" weekend, I get to fiddle about without interference

So...
New Arch, samba, original pogo functionality, maybe opencloud for fun, then set up XBMC on the Pi (openelec or even Arch+xbmc).

Later folks

Rev

[moonman]

I have to disagree about upgrading uboot. You can boot from ext4 partition, you can use linux-kirkwood-dt kernel with frequency scaling and you can edit uboot environment without modifying the pne in nand. Not booting into stock is a minor inconvenience which shouldn't matter anyway since you are installong arch. Plus nobody really tried to chainload stock uboot, it might just work

[grayman4hire]

@moonman, thanks for your input regarding the new uboot.

On the topic of chainloading the stock uboot, I'm interested in doing this on the Pogoplug Series 4 and Mobile. Do you know how the "uboot-original-mtd0.kwb" file is generated?

I asked about it here:
http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?3,1659 ... #msg-16600

Any input is appreciated. Thanks