Problems with my device

[Dammer]

Hi All,
I have problems with my GoFlex Net. I will give you some history:
I attempted to install Arch Linux ARM Linux on it as per the wiki, however for some reason it could not download the tarball. As it was late, I turned off the device and waited until the next day. Next day - flashing green light and problems so I joined the Arch Linux ARM mirc room and asked around. As per a recommendation, I formatted a USB key to ext3 and unpacked the tarball onto it. When I plugged the USB into the GoFlex and restarted, it seemed to access the USB a lot and the flashing green light is now a solid green light. However, it is not receiving an IP from my router and I cannot find a way to ssh into the device.

Any recommendations?

Thanks,

Rich

[kmihelich]

Try a different USB drive. Be sure to label the partition you are extracting the tarball onto as "rootfs" (tune2fs -L "rootfs" /dev/whatever). As always, be sure to safely umount the drive from the linux computer you're working on with it. If things went right, it should boot right up.

[espressionist]

Hello..! just a newbie here, but i experienced the same thing like you with my goflex home...
this thread was really helpful: viewtopic.php?f=18&t=762
since you got your green led solid, seems (from my in-experienced point of view) that the box did some kind of a boot.. whats your netcat output?

note that if you "nc -lu 10.10.10.2 6666" you'll get your goflex's IP address...

ps: your goflex's MAC address may have changed and will be different than the one printed on the device... in case you dont succeed with netcat, search again in your router log files for any unknown MAC addresses...

[Dammer]

Fantastic!

I'll try both of these when I get home tonight.

As I don't have Linux on a computer, I used the Ubuntu Live USB. Could this be causing the problem? I might try to install Linux on a new partition tonight and then create the USB from that. Unfortunately, I'm not too familiar with Linux - could someone give me a quick guide to creating this USB to make sure I'm doing everything correctly? It can be as simple as 'Open the console, type this..'.

Thanks so much!

[WarheadsSE]

The Live CD is not the problem, at all.

[Dammer]

OK - I'll continue to use it then!

I thought that could be the case as I was receiving some errors 'unpacking' the tarball. I was using the Ubuntu built-in unpacking program (I forget what it's called now, sorry!) but eventually had to unpack it in Windows and then just copy the files onto the formatted USB in Linux. This process seems far from ideal and I'd much rather set up the USB using a set of console commands.

[Dammer]

I decided to install Ubuntu on my laptop anyway, but am still receiving an error when trying to unpack the tarball. The .tar.gz is the one from the wiki (http://plugboxlinux.org/os/2011.02/Plug ... tfs.tar.gz) and I'm trying to unpack it using Archive Manager.

Please help!

[pepedog]

I modified this http://Arch Linux ARM.com/index.php5/Official_install_on_Seagate_Dockstar
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Plug in the usb drive
Open a terminal session in Ubuntu

su
now put in your root password

dmesg
Look at the bottom and see what device was found, it will be /dev/sd(something)
Say it was /dev/sdb, then below is ok, if something else then modify
umount /dev/sdb1

/dev/sdb is the drive and /dev/sdb1 is the partition

fdisk /dev/sdb
1b. At the fdisk prompt, delete old partitions and create a new one:

Now type p. This will list any partitions on your disk drive.
Type d 1, d 2, and so on to delete all partitions.
Type p to list partitions. There should be no partitions left.
Now type n, then p for primary, 1 for the first partition on the drive, and then press ENTER, accepting default values.
Exit by typing w.
1c. After you create a new partition, create the ext2 filesystem:

mke2fs /dev/sdc1
mkdir usb
mount /dev/sdc1 usb
2. Download and install Arch Linux ARM Linux:

cd usb
wget http://Arch Linux ARM.com/os/2011.02/PlugApps-Linux-2011.02-rootfs.tar.gz
tar -xzvf PlugApps-Linux-2011.02-rootfs.tar.gz # This will take a long time
rm PlugApps-Linux-2011.02-rootfs.tar.gz

tune2fs -L "rootfs" /dev/sdc1

Now safely shut down your laptop and remove the usb drive')