installing eniugma2 on cube revo

Installing Enigma 2 to flash drive on AB IPbox 9xxx HD.

I've seen some long winded guides for installing Enigma2 on flash which make it more complicated than it needs to be. I do it in the following way, which I find much more simple.

This guide is specific to the IPBox 9000 HD (and its equivalents). I don't own any of the other variants so cant test, but the process should be the same with possibly different paths.

You'll need to set your box up so that you can choose to boot from either flash, USB Drive, HDD .......
To do that install Multiboot (Attached below). Its a normal USB upgrade, see your manual for instructions on how to install USB upgrades.

I had problems installing it via a USB pen drive, installing via Flash Tools worked.

Once multiboot has been installed installed you can continue to install Enigma2 on USB Drive. I'll be assuming that you have a DG Station based image in flash.

Download the Enigma2 image you want to install. It should be called something along the lines of imagename-version.tar.gz.

Boot to your DGS based image and start a telnet session with it.

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1: Insert your USB drive and format it as follows in your telnet session. Execute the commands one at a time.
Code:
umount /dev/sdb1
mkfs.ext2 /dev/sdb1
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb/usb0

2: Use your favourite FTP program to tansfer the downloaded image file to your usb drive, which should be mounted at /mnt/usb/usb0 at this stage.

3: Extract the image to the pen drive.....
Code:
cd /mnt/usb/usb0
tar xzvf imagename-version.tar.gz

When this completes, you should be able to reboot and boot into Enigma2 by pressing and holding the corresponding button on your remote while the LCD display reads 'Booting'. (In my case with a HDD fitted, this would be number 2).


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It will take quite a while for Enigma to boot on the first fun, so don't pull the plug too soon.

If you have a PC running Linux, the above process can be carried out on the PC. Its much quicker this way because extraction on the AB IPbox takes quite a while.
Multiboot startup options......


if you want multiboot function, download attached usb_config.img.
Then press number button which you want on RCU when start up from shutdown.
Multiboot function supports as below style.

# 1 boot with CDKroot(NFS)
# 2 boot from USB memory stick, with internal HDD
# 3 original images as current flash memory
# 4 boot with NFS
# 5 boot from USB memory stick, but without internal HDD
# 6 boot from internal SATA HDD
# 7 boot from flash memory for another image

Default value : no.3

It sounds like the USB pen drive is either not mounted when you run the command to extract the image, or you are working from the wrong directory.

To check that the pen drive is mounted, run the mount command. It will output a number of lines, one of which should read Code:
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb/usb0

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If this line is not displayed, simply remove the pen drive and replace it, then try the mount command again.

If it is mounted, check that you are working from the correct directory by running the 'pwd' (present working directory) command. You should be in /mnt/usb/usb0. If not, cd to /mnt/usb/usb0 before running the extraction command.

If you are still having problems, run the following command and paste the output here.
Code:
df -h


If you were working from the wrong directory and ran the command I use to extract, you could end up extracting the image to internal flash, hence the lack of space. Just a possibility
They are different drives. Different partitions would be listed as sdb0, sdb1, sda0, sda1 etc.
If you use 7zip (or similar prog of your choice) on a windows box and extract the image file to a .tar before ftping it to the receiver, extracting on the IPBox takes very little time. (tar -xvf imagefile.tar)

It's the combination of gunzip and tar extraction which makes it so much slower on the IPBox. Especially as the gunzip expands the image to ~100Mb tar file to extract.