Difference between revisions of "Amahi Plug Edition"
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| − | Step 1: | + | Step 1: '''Prepare your disk.''' Connect your media (usb disk, flash drive, or SD card)into a working Linux machine and open your preferred partitioning software (Gparted, fdisk,etc). Partition and format the drive with your file system of choice (ext2,ext3,etc), the usual warnings apply all data will be lost. If a swap partition is desired (highly recommended for the Dockstar)leave up to 512MB available, and format as Linux swap. Next, download the [http://dl.amahi.org/marvell/create-clean-f12-disk.sh script] and [http://dl.amahi.org/marvell/amahi-marvell-0.8.tar.bz2 Image] to the disk. Run the script and it will give a warning to edit the script to match your drive designation. This is what your disk is on the current machine (i.e. sdb1,sdc1), care should be taken here to correctly identify the disk or you could wipe the wrong disk. Now run the script and it will automagically prepare your disk. |
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| + | Step 2: '''Boot''' the device with your newly created disk attached. Give it a few minutes to boot, and it will be ready for the Amahi installation. | ||
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Revision as of 13:13, 3 August 2010
Supported devices
- SheevaPlug
- GuruPlug
- Pogoplug
- DockStar
- Any other Plug Computer based on the Marvell Plug Computer
How to install Amahi
Step 1: Prepare your disk. Connect your media (usb disk, flash drive, or SD card)into a working Linux machine and open your preferred partitioning software (Gparted, fdisk,etc). Partition and format the drive with your file system of choice (ext2,ext3,etc), the usual warnings apply all data will be lost. If a swap partition is desired (highly recommended for the Dockstar)leave up to 512MB available, and format as Linux swap. Next, download the script and Image to the disk. Run the script and it will give a warning to edit the script to match your drive designation. This is what your disk is on the current machine (i.e. sdb1,sdc1), care should be taken here to correctly identify the disk or you could wipe the wrong disk. Now run the script and it will automagically prepare your disk.
Step 2: Boot the device with your newly created disk attached. Give it a few minutes to boot, and it will be ready for the Amahi installation.
Step 3: Install Amahi.
