Support email sent. This sucks bigtime. I guess all of the above is delayed in this case.

It has to be the hardware - I did SSH in, but only to see what was around the filesystem, but made no modifications, just ran uname -a and ls'ed some directories and exited cleanly, then unplugged it. Now it's looping - so it must be the hardware then. Oh well, **** happens. I emailed support and they'll help me out further.

Edit: Nah, I didn't do a nandwrite or any FS modifications or anything else for that matter. I was *going* to, but wanted to put my Pogoplug at it's new home after having pulled it out of the box and sticking it in the first outlet I found out of anxiety. ;)

Support is exchanging my Pogoplug - I bought another one though - just in case.

So here's where we're at in terms of apps. I started out small and useful: GNU nano. It runs fine after a lot of time working with the default terminal nano wanted (it called for xterm-color, the Pogoplug obviously doesn't have xterm, had to change it to linux-lat).

Next up, I plan to port over a simple package-management system, possibly Pacman from Arch Linux due to it's low dependency requirements and speed. I'll keep everyone posted.

So, if anyone is brave enough to take on this first challenge of installing Nano, the text editor, in about 3-5 copy-pasted commands, reply here.

The testing is appreciated.

Thanks ianjb. I've slimmed it down pretty much to barebones while still providing functionality. 547KB installed, 255KB compressed.

Here are the instructions. Following these will most likely void your warranty and are for testing purposes ONLY.

Edit: COMING SOON!

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And that was the first, preliminary "package". Expect more, along with scripts to automate the procedure. Let me know how this goes.

Fixed the bug by having the user create a root bash_profile - this will be automated in the final version of this base package. Any other bugs?

Ooh, ipkg is a new one, haven't seen it. I'll take a look because it looks like it works out of the box without any dependencies. I'm also a nano fan myself because it's not worth the time to learn a text editor IMHO ;).

I'm going to use ipkg since it's basically apt-get in terms of usage. The SheevaPlug repo is only for kernel modules, while the ARMel one is for all packages. I'm fiddling around with putting together a package to easily install and configure ipkg for end users. After that, they'd use "ipkg install nano", substituting in nano with samba, apache, lighttpd, nfs, afp....the possibilities are endless, unless you run out of space of course. :P I can't get the 450MB jffs2 partition to mount.

Also, a question for CloudEngines: How would I get "/sbin/shutdown" to work. I have an ARM binary for it, but while running it, the connection is refused. My first guess is that the problem lies in the init scripts. Help? I hate running over to my Pogoplug every time I want to "freshen" it up.