Here is my contribution to the site. Once again, thanks to admin and all the others before me that figured this out. I am just consolidating.
I kept this as a running log as I went so I could learn from it and so I can do it again if my card dies or I brick my plug
Here we go:
Step by Step Windows Vista SheevaPlug PlugPBX Installation Instructions
SD Card: Lexar Platinum II Class 6 4GB from Target $18.99
1. Download the latest Plugpbx image from Download section on main page - Do this first as it takes a while to download!
1. Plug in Sheeva Plug to outlet
2. Plug in Mini USB to PC and Sheeva plug and install driver - My computer did not find the USB drivers.
Use CD or download from here:
http://www.plugcomputer.org/index.php/us/resources/downloads?func=startdown&id=44My plug did not come with a CD, should I ask for a refund???
If you want more official install instructions, Here is the openplug Wiki entry:
http://www.openplug.org/plugwiki/index.php/How-to_setup_PuTTY_for_the_SheevaPlug_on_Windows3. Download Putty from here:
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html4. Open Putty and on the first page, change from SSH to Serial, choose Com Port (Check Device Manager) and speed to 115200.
I actually had to reboot and run and close Putty about 3 times to finally get to a terminal window
5. When you get a terminal window, left click on it hit <Enter>. Login: root Password: nosoup4u
6. Type: shutdown -r now OR reboot (looks like regular linux commands work!) This will reboot the plug.
7. The plug will reboot and say "Hit any key to stop autoboot", hit the any key :<)
8. Type: version which will show your Uboot version. Mine is 3.4.16 - so it looks like I am upgrading...
Upgrading Uboot. Well documented here:
http://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/sheevaplug/uboot-upgrade.htmlI will post any snafus I find below
Uboot issues to watchout for:
I did the USB version. Did a quick format FAT on the drive and had no issues with the above instructions. Now I have Marvell version 3.4.27
I also did the TFTP version. Both very easy. I don't know if it makes a difference or not which one you do. The USB version does not ask
you if you want to "override Env parameters"
9. Go to Install Guide-> Windows Card Imaging
http://www.plugpbx.org/?page_id=11010. Download winmd5sum and install. In Vista, it locked up on first run after install and so tried again in Xp compatiblity mode.
Checksum checked out
11. I decided to go ahead and format the card to prevent future issues, may not be necessary SDCARD.org formatter:
http://www.sdcard.org/consumers/formatter_3/ (thanks pbx_2010!)
12. Download Roadkil’s DiskImage Tool. I got the standalone version, so I don't have to install.
13. Major problems.. My computer is showing the image is bigger than my SD card, nothing has worked as of yet. Writing zeros, reformatting, writing with 3 different programs.
Probably going to have to get another card reader from work...
14. With the current image, 3 out of the 4 cards I tried were too small. See post on "Known Working Cards" until this gets fixed.
Finding a card that fit the image has been the hardest part!
15. Downloaded SD Formatter Beta 3.0 (Actually 2.9XX something right now) from:
http://www.sdcard.org/consumers/formatter_3/ and formatted the card.
16. Ended up using win32diskimager to do the imaging. Link:
https://launchpad.net/win32-image-writer17. Now configure the Sheeva to boot from SD Card. Found here BELOW video:
http://www.plugpbx.org/?page_id=119Copied here from above link...
* Now with your UBOOT at 3.4.19 or greater you need to setup your Sheeva to boot from SD card full time (and how to boot Linux).
* You’ll enter the following parameters one at a time exactly as shown here. Copy and paste into you serial terminal program of choice.
setenv mainlineLinux yes
setenv arcNumber 2097
setenv bootargs_console console=ttyS0,115200
setenv bootcmd_mmc 'mmcinit; ext2load mmc 0 0x0800000 /uInitrd; ext2load mmc 0 0x400000 /uImage'
setenv bootcmd 'setenv bootargs $(bootargs_console); run bootcmd_mmc; bootm 0x400000 0x0800000'
saveenv
* Now you can insert your SD card and power cycle the device or just type (Mac users, power cycling without first disconnecting the USB cable can cause Mac panics, or dead driver, FTDI’s drivers do not handle APCI events cleanly…)
reset
18. Upon issuing reset, your plug will reboot. At this point, I will open my router's status page and watch to see if the PlugPBX will
grab an IP address. It may take 30 seconds to a minute to show up.
**One note ** When I rebooted, and I was still connected serially thru putty; I get the regular boot start
process then it will start spitting out information on your sdcard. Then it will start mounting linux. At this point, my
terminal goes to gibberish. Just garbage all over the screen. Only one other person has reported this issue and I have not
found the cause, but my plug is working just the same. So I am ignoring the problem for now.
19. I then will log back into the plug with Putty but over SSH now using the IP Address and port 22 (default SSH port)
Login: root Password: password
20. Once you login, then type "password" and <Enter> then enter your new password that is NOT the default. Don't forget it, or you will
have to reimage your card.
21. Once that is done, or once your router shows up with PLUGPBX in its DHCP routing table, then you can
type
http://PLUGPBX into your browser or just enter the IP address of the plug into the browser.
You should see: PlugPBX v1.00 - Initial Release - Beta with a picture of a sheevaplug.
Congrats. You have your PlugPBX up and running.
You can configure FreePBX or continue on and get it running with Flashybrid. See Dev Section as a few guys figured this out and I pulled together a step by step on Pg 3 to contribute to the cause.
ONCE AGAIN, you gurus check my steps and point out any errors or omissions. I did most of this as I was working, so it should be mostly complete.
Thanks again to the PlugADMIN as he made all this possible!!!
