Dockstar

Creator: Brimstone Status: Documentation Born On: 17:43, 23 August 2010 (CDT) Last Updated: 17:43, 23 August 2010 (CDT)

Overview

This is my notes and brief instructions for running Debian on your dockstar. Most steps are taking from Jeff Doozan's webpage.

Rooting the device

For mine device, bought in August 2010, I was able to ssh into the device with the following:

username: root
password: stxadmin

Your mileage may vary.

Replacing U-Boot

I had problems with installing U-Boot to mtd3 and had to replace the original uboot in mtd0. The following is meant to be run from inside the original firmware, as root, with access to the Internet.

cd /tmp
wget http://jeff.doozan.com/debian/uboot/install_uboot_mtd0.sh
chmod +x install_uboot_mtd0.sh
./install_uboot_mtd0.sh

It's worked fine since.

Building a Debian usb drive

From any sane computer, partition and format a usb drive with the first partition being ext2, and the second being swap. Then run the following install script from inside your dockstar as root, with the usb drive in:

cd /tmp
wget http://jeff.doozan.com/debian/dockstar.debian-squeeze.sh
chmod +x dockstar.debian-squeeze.sh
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin:/sbin
./dockstar.debian-squeeze.sh 

• Upgrade to ext3
  • fstab
  • usb_rootfs nvram