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Getting started with a new SheevaPlug
by John Winters
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I've just received a SheevaPlug freshly delivered and obviously I didn't
read any of the instructions before powering it up. I'm slightly puzzled. I connect the USB lead to another box, fire up a connection over ttyUSB0 and am immediately presented with a login which says: Ubuntu jaunty (development branch) debian ttyS0 debian login: I wasn't expecting to find Ubuntu pre-installed. I've had a little hunt to see if I can find the login information, but without luck so far. Is it normal for these to come with a booting Ubuntu system pre-installed? TIA, John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-REQUEST@... with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@... |
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Re: Getting started with a new SheevaPlug
by Lluís Batlle
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passwd: nosoup4u The manuals say that they provide either an Ubuntu or a Gentoo. I still have to see where to get that gentoo from. Welcome to the SheevaPlug world! 2009/9/11 John Winters <john@...>: > I've just received a SheevaPlug freshly delivered and obviously I didn't > read any of the instructions before powering it up. > > I'm slightly puzzled. I connect the USB lead to another box, fire up a > connection over ttyUSB0 and am immediately presented with a login which > says: > > Ubuntu jaunty (development branch) debian ttyS0 > > debian login: > > > I wasn't expecting to find Ubuntu pre-installed. I've had a little hunt > to see if I can find the login information, but without luck so far. > > Is it normal for these to come with a booting Ubuntu system pre-installed? > > TIA, > John > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-REQUEST@... > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@... > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-REQUEST@... with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@... |
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Re: Getting started with a new SheevaPlug
by Stephen Pirk
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On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:12, John Winters <john@...> wrote: I've just received a SheevaPlug freshly delivered and obviously I didn't John, Yes, quite a few of us were surprised to see it grab a dhcp address and come right up. If you want an alternative to debian/ubuntu, the is armedslack, Slackware distribution for ARM and Sheevaplugs as an arm package. Very slick so far... armedslack.org -steve -- steve pirk refiamerica.org "father... the sleeper has awakened..." paul atreides - dune Sent from Bremerton, WA, United States |
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Re: Getting started with a new SheevaPlug
by Michael Shuler-5
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On 09/11/2009 12:12 PM, John Winters wrote:
> I've just received a SheevaPlug Looks like you got a reply with the root pass. http://plugcomputer.org/ is one of the best resources I've found with my week-old sheevaplug First thing I would suggest is to update the u-boot environment - the latest version supports booting from SD card. So far I have updated u-boot, pushed their alpha6 Ubuntu image to NAND, then set up dual-booting Lenny from SD and NAND. Next thing I'd like to try is sort out how the alpha6 installer works and get a Debian install to NAND working right. -- Kind regards, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-REQUEST@... with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@... |
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Re: Getting started with a new SheevaPlug
by Stephen Pirk
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On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:04, Stephen Pirk <steve@...> wrote:
Steve's insensitive reply: ;-]
My apologies gents, forgot this was the debian-arm mailing list - thought it was the sheevaplug one. Very not cool to point to the slack-arm distro. mea culpa. -steve [egrep] -- steve pirk refiamerica.org "father... the sleeper has awakened..." paul atreides - dune Sent from Bremerton, WA, United States |
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Re: Getting started with a new SheevaPlug
by David Given
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John Winters wrote:
> I wasn't expecting to find Ubuntu pre-installed. I've had a little hunt > to see if I can find the login information, but without luck so far. > > Is it normal for these to come with a booting Ubuntu system pre-installed? > Yes, that's quite normal. (Although finding it on /dev/ttyUSB0 isn't --- USB0 is usually the JTAG port and USB1 is the serial console.) The Ubuntu installation's actually in pretty poor shape and apt won't work out of the box. (You can't use apt on a jffs2 filesystem since it doesn't support writeable mmap.) Recommendations are to install Martin Michlmayr's u-boot upgrade (which allows booting off SD card) and then to put Debian on it... I have a writeup here, although it's now a bit old and out of date: http://www.cowlark.com/2009-04-15-sheevaplug/ -- David Given dg@... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-REQUEST@... with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@... |
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Re: Getting started with a new SheevaPlug
by John Winters
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David Given wrote:
> John Winters wrote: >> I wasn't expecting to find Ubuntu pre-installed. I've had a little hunt >> to see if I can find the login information, but without luck so far. >> >> Is it normal for these to come with a booting Ubuntu system >> pre-installed? >> > > Yes, that's quite normal. (Although finding it on /dev/ttyUSB0 isn't --- > USB0 is usually the JTAG port and USB1 is the serial console.) I've connected my SheevaPlug to 3 different Linux systems and on all of them it produces only a /dev/ttyUSB0, which is the console. > > The Ubuntu installation's actually in pretty poor shape and apt won't > work out of the box. (You can't use apt on a jffs2 filesystem since it > doesn't support writeable mmap.) Recommendations are to install Martin > Michlmayr's u-boot upgrade (which allows booting off SD card) Done that. > and then to put Debian on it... And that, but then I did an "apt-get dist-upgrade" and that seems to have broken booting again. Waiting in hope for clues about why. Cheers, John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-REQUEST@... with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@... |
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Re: Getting started with a new SheevaPlug
by Rafal Czlonka-2
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David Given wrote:
> The Ubuntu installation's actually in pretty poor shape and apt > won't work out of the box. (You can't use apt on a jffs2 filesystem Worked fine here. -- Raf http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-REQUEST@... with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@... |
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Re: Getting started with a new SheevaPlug
by John Winters
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David Given wrote:
> Yes, that's quite normal. (Although finding it on /dev/ttyUSB0 isn't --- > USB0 is usually the JTAG port and USB1 is the serial console.) I've done a bit of research and explained this. Recent Linux kernels apparently recognise JTAG ports explicitly and don't assign them a serial port. Instead you access them with openocd. Now I just need to find out why the kernel doesn't boot. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-REQUEST@... with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@... |
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Re: Getting started with a new SheevaPlug
by David Given
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Rafal Czlonka wrote:
> David Given wrote: >> The Ubuntu installation's actually in pretty poor shape and apt >> won't work out of the box. (You can't use apt on a jffs2 filesystem > > Worked fine here. It's entirely possible they've fixed it. My system came with /var/cache/apt on a ramdisk to get around this, except they hadn't put in the script to populate it on startup (creating the 'archives' directory, etc), which meant that apt would get confused and fail. Possibly they've switched to yaffs; jffs2 works very badly on big disks and yaffs is a much better choice. I don't use the flash for anything, instead running Debian off USB, so I wasn't terribly interesting in delving deeply into then workings of the Ubuntu system on it. -- David Given dg@... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-REQUEST@... with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@... |
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Re: Getting started with a new SheevaPlug
by JK Scheinberg-2
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Just FYI
I followed Martin's awesome page on installing debian and my plug has been up awhile now local@plug:~$ uptime 21:13:54 up 44 days, 3:46, 1 user, load average: 0.05, 0.04, 0.00 local@plug:~$ uname -a Linux plug 2.6.30-1-kirkwood #1 Mon Aug 17 14:01:54 UTC 2009 armv5tel GNU/Linux local@plug:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo Processor : Feroceon 88FR131 rev 1 (v5l) BogoMIPS : 1192.75 Features : swp half thumb fastmult edsp CPU implementer : 0x56 CPU architecture: 5TE CPU variant : 0x2 CPU part : 0x131 CPU revision : 1 Hardware : Marvell SheevaPlug Reference Board Revision : 0000 Serial : 0000000000000000 I have a 30GB USB SSD attached to it as the root device and I'm using it as an rsync repository for a server I have out on the net. It's been rock rock solid and seems quite fast as well. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-REQUEST@... with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@... |
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