This article is about installing Debian on a flash disk, like SD card, flash disk, Solid State Disk etc. The goal is to have the data on a hard disk. This will increase the lifetime of the flash disk.

Assumption of this article is that Debian is already installed on a flash disk in the root …

After installing Debian on SD card, it was booting successfully with the ‘run bootcmd’. But when I switched off the power and plugged in again, I was getting the following error messages:

Error! cmd : 8, err : 0201
Error! cmd : 1, err : 0201
Error! cmd : 1, err : 0201
Error! cmd : 1, err …

The next step in this SheevaPlug guide is installing Debian on the SheevaPlug. Default on the SheevaPlug, Ubuntu 9.04 is provided. Ubuntu 9.04 will not be supported for a very long time any more and a Ubuntu 9.10 or higher is not available. That is why I want to install Debian on the Kingston 4GB …

The architectural setup

The following list I want to connect to my eSATA SheevaPlug:

• Flashdisk 4 GB SDHC class 4 (for the Debian root filesystem)
• Eexternal USB or eSATA hard-disk 2GB or 4GB (for datastorage and variable data)
• Network cable (supplied in kit)
• miniUSB cable for serial access to the …

I ordered the eSata SheevaPlug at New IT in the UK and received it 4 days later in the Netherlands.

Here are some photos of the SheevaPlug, the box with all contents.

And that, I was curious about the build quality of my SheevaPlug. Therefore I needed to break the warranty seal.

I was surprised …

Update 3-4-2012:

The solution that I would choose this moment is the CuBox, it is not available in every country yet. If it is available, it will be added to the list.

I am using the Linksys NSLU2 with SlugOS installed. See my posts in Dutch about the NSLU2 /tag/nslu2/.

The pros of the NSLU …