[Pogoplug] Hacking Pogoplug Gray version

Around 2 months ago, I got a Pogoplug gray version when BB had it on sale.

The exciting thing about this box is:
- It's linux based which means you can hack in it and add on packages you want.
- It's small, low noise, energy saving.

I've been looking for a low budget NAS for a long time. So the chance is here.

The software with this box provides online access and Windows/Mac/Linux drive driver. But it's not enough for me. I also need it to be able to download, and link to my WDTV as a media center. To modify this pogoplug into my ideal NAS, I searched online and read a lot articles about it. PlugApps is the most complete and successful one I found so far. Here is what I did.

First I installed PlugApps to a USB flash drive based on
OpenPogo:Installing Base Package - USB
and
How to Install (or remove) OpenPogo on Your Pogoplug-Attached USB Drive.

It provides additional features to the existing Pogoplug software by creating an opt folder on the USB drive that allows installation of Optware ipkg applications.

** Since Pogoplug disabled ssh by default, ssh must be enabled from the settings page of my.pogoplug.com before starting this installation.

What I used:
- I downloaded putty to my Asus EeePC (Windows XP) to SSH into pogoplug and execute all the commands;
- a 8GB Kingston USB flash drive formatted to ext2 attached to pogoplug.

When the basic stuff are in place, I added more packages such as: Samba (file sharing), Transmission(BT download), Lighttpd Web Server with PHP , MySQL and PHPMyAdmin ...

Then the most important part, install NFS server to share media to WDTV.

OK. That's it. I'll put more details in later posts.