SqueezePlug (official thread)

[truehl]

Hello again,

I finally caved in and today purchased the standard sheevaplug with the esata port, as well as a 4GB SD card.

Looking on the wiki it seems i have 2 choices to get squeezeplug installed, using either the sheevaimage or the sheevainstaller. What would be best for me? My linux knowledge is pretty sketchy, although i will be wanting to set up a samba server on it using my external usb disk.

Any advice on what way to go would be much appreciated!

Thanks

Please try the SqueezePlug_Image method first, because that does not alter the boot environment. Try to boot with that image. You can install a simple samba server from the setup/misc option in my setup script. It's fully automated but a very simple configuration without any security or right-management. But I think it's o.k. for a local network!

Greetings,
Thomas

[Partridge]

Thanks very much, I shall try with the image first. Those server settings sound fine for my home network. One thing I've never been sure of is whether it's ok for me to have the disk formatted as ntfs? I'll be needig read and write access to it. Fingers crossed the plug arrives by the weekend!

[truehl]

Thanks very much, I shall try with the image first. Those server settings sound fine for my home network. One thing I've never been sure of is whether it's ok for me to have the disk formatted as ntfs? I'll be needig read and write access to it. Fingers crossed the plug arrives by the weekend!

NTFS should also be o.k., I've installed the Linux drivers for that. The setup script should recognize this and mount the NTFS-Drive automatically.

Greetings,
Thomas

[Partridge]

Excellant. Looking forward to getting this all setup now. You've been a massive help so far, and i wouldn't have gone for this without the support available. So thanks again.

Will keep you updated on how i get on.

[truehl]

Excellant. Looking forward to getting this all setup now. You've been a massive help so far, and i wouldn't have gone for this without the support available. So thanks again.

Will keep you updated on how i get on.

Please be careful to be not to enthusiastic! Officially I don't support the eSata version. But the last days someone told it's running. So good luck and keep me informed!

Greetings
Thomas

[golddustpeak]

Originally Posted by truehl View Post
golddustpeak: Did you trie the 3.50 version??? I think no, because it's out only for one day! Please try!

Greetings, Thomas

Thomas,
Ive used the new 3.5 image and installed 7.5.3 r31792 on the SheevaPlug.

We'll see what happens next.......

Neil

I was the one with the Server that would crash every 2 or 3 days.

I did the new install Feb 3, 2011 and so far I've not had a crash.

I'll report again later....

[truehl]

Hi,
there was a problem with the Tonido Image 3.50. I've updated the file and now it should work!

Greetings,
Thomas

[Partridge]

Loaded the 3.50 image onto my eSata Sheevaplug, and I can confirm that it works perfectly. Just remember not to update U-boot, otherwise it won't boot. You'll have to use this version from New IT: http://www.newit.co.uk/u-boot/uboot-sata-090903.bin.md5. This is only for the eSata version.

Another thing to remember is to back up your favourites - I didn't....

Again, thank you, Thomas.

sorry for the thick question that follows. My sheevaplug esata arrived today. Do I need to download and install that file from newit above, or can I just leave uboot alone? I'll be using the sheeva image to setup squeezeplug.

Thanks

[truehl]

sorry for the thick question that follows. My sheevaplug esata arrived today. Do I need to download and install that file from newit above, or can I just leave uboot alone? I'll be using the sheeva image to setup squeezeplug.

Thanks

Don't update u-boot. Try to boot simply with your SD-Card with my image! If that won't work we will see!

Greetings,
Thomas

[Percival Sweetwater]

sorry for the thick question that follows. My sheevaplug esata arrived today. Do I need to download and install that file from newit above, or can I just leave uboot alone? I'll be using the sheeva image to setup squeezeplug.

Thanks

Yes, sorry for the confusion; don't update the U boot version. I foolishly did, and had to download it again from the above site.