NSLU2-->Alix3D3, starting migration

[bobball]

When I start a backup, the Meteohub log tells me:
Mon Mar 21 09:53:11 EDT 2011: full backup started...
tar: data/weather/19*: Cannot stat: No such file or directory.
Hours later, it produces a 57mb Meteohub.backup. Is that a good backup? The correct size?
I haven't yet succeeded in installing a Meteohub image in the Alix, but I hope to enlist local help with that problem.

[dls903]

There is no weather data from the years 19**.
The backup is a good backup. If you have more weather data the size will be bigger from this file

[bobball]

I’ve attempted for a couple of days to put meteohub on a 4GB CF card and into an Alix 3D3 without success.

Message from Alix to monitor:
PXE-E61 Media test failure, check cable
PXE-MOF: Exiting Intel PXE ROM.
disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter.

Extracting image.bin and installing it on the card seemed to be uneventful. The instructions for installing to 3D2, because they’re an exception to other Alix and similar boxes, are a little difficult to follow. Are there some tricks, considerations, issues I should be aware of? Is there something in the 3D3 BIOS I should change? I'm inexperienced at these issues, although today I enlisted the IT pro at the non-profit I'm connected with. His first effort at installation fared no better than mine.

[Aussie101]

How are you going with this?

I installed on 3D3 a while ago with no issues at all.

[bobball]

The IT specialist at my nonprofit wasn't able to transfer operation from my NSLU2 to an Alix 3D3, so I'm back to square one. Question: On page 16 of the manual, I'm told that Alix 3D2 is a special case, that loading the Meteohub OS into it doesn't use a stick. Does that apply as well to the 3D3, or is the 3D3 prepared in the same way as other Alix xDx models, using both a stick and a CF card?

[wfpost]

what program and what windows version did you use to write the image to the usb-stick??

[bobball]

I did this too many months ago to remember, but I believe I assumed the 3D3 installation would be similar to the 3D2 and skipped the stick. Whatever I did was with Win7, on a MacBook Pro, possibly using -- what was it? -- Roadkill? -- all at the hands of a user who knows Macs a lot better than Windows and Linux hardly at all. Your question, though, suggests that I should have followed the non-3D2 steps and used the stick.

[wfpost]

well, from your error message it looks like the image on the usb-stick hasn´t been written correctly and therefore no bootable image has been tranferred to the CF-card.
I´ve done the same migration a couple of months ago w/o any problems.

Win7 and Roadkill seems to be not the best combination.
I have mentioned an alternative which worked pretty well with my Win7 ...
viewtopic.php?f=9&t=8103&p=9014&hilit=suse#p9014

you might give that a try - also you can avoid the mistake appearing very often with roadkill in not selecting Physical disk
which leads to the image written in a wrong way to the usb-stick

[bobball]

The good news is that I eventually got the Meteohub running in the 3D3. The bad news is that it was a few weeks ago, I'm in a different part of the country and I can't recall what I did to make it work. At one point Boris entered the system to fix a problem, but it was somewhat up and running by then.

[admin]

The manual explains the steps, but here again:

1) Download http://www.meteohub.de/files/meteohub-v4.9.zip
2) extract meteohub-v4.9.img from this
3) put this onto a USB stick with DiskImage (select target drive as "physical disk") or ImageWriter
4) open resulting USB stick with your PC's explorer and copy meteohub-x86-4GB.gz to your desktop
5) unpack meteohub-x86-4GB.gz
6) copy resulting image.bin onto CF card, of course again with DiskImage (in physical disk mode) or ImageWriter

[bobball]

And those were more or less the steps I followed, although I encountered other forks in the path: I started out following 3D2's different direction thinking that 3D3 would be the same. I use a Mac, and unfamiliarity with the Win7 side of my Mac got in the way. I also had access to Linux but don't remember if I used it. Anyway, it's done and it works. It's in MI, I'm in AZ, and if the power goes off for a while, I'm certain the weather station will come up as well. As with the NSLU2, I can upgrade Meteohub from here. Next step: Finding out if Meteohub can upload images from a compatible webcam to Weather Underground without help from an outside file such as ImageMagick. I saw a reference in the forum to uploading an image as if it's a Meteohub graph. I'll keep looking. I've converted both NSLU2s to webcam use, but the Linux app I installed has no easy provision for uploading that I can see.

[bobball]

Looking at my own installation, it appears that working on setup push service and graph uploads pages will work for me, assuming my Logitech 310 is truly compatible.