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Flash SheevaPlug to MeteoPlug using Ubuntu 9.04

You dont have to install Ubuntu to your computer, you can use Live CD by using the option "Test Ubuntu without installing"

1. Get Ubuntu Desktop CD download at http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download and burn it to a CD.

2. Boot Ubuntu from CD and choose your language and with F3 you can choose your keyboard layout.

3. When Ubuntu is fully booted you have to change setting for login as root user.

4. To enable root login (according to the Ubuntu Guide), do the following:
1. System -> Administration -> Login Screen Setup
2. Security Tab -> Options -> Allow root to login with GDM (Checked)

4. Open a Terminal window: Applications -> Accessoiries -> Terminal

5. to set the root password use command in terminal window: sudo passwd and type the new password as asked.

6. Logout and login again as user: root and as password: your password you have chosen.

7. open places and copy meteoplug-installer.tgz to HOME.

8. open Terminal window and type: cd /home

9. Than you extract the file meteoplug-installer.tgz with command: tar xzpf meteoplug-installer.tgz

10. type: cd meteoplug-installer

11. for all the rest follow these instructions: http://www.meteohub.de/joomla/index.php ... &Itemid=29

For a non Linux user you must be able to complete the job.

Hope this help people to install the MeteoPlug.

Thank you for the tutorial, it helped me a lot!

From my side some tipps & tricks:

I installed MeteoPlug with Fedora, but the hardest part was to login as root. In the terminal it worked only with the command: su
all other commands like: login root
or so didn't do the job.

Flashing the installer was easy, I made it with the direct input of the MAC-address.

The SD-Card were installed with the DiskImage from roadkil.net, but under Vista it didn't worked, then I tried it with XP (you must select the physical mode) and there it was: MeteoPlug!

Next thing to do is, to stick everything together and then login in your router to see the IP-address of the MeteoPlug. Login in MeteoPlug and you can start testing.