How to use an USB-stick.

This page wil try to describe how to install a new or used USB-Stick on the dreambox. If you follow the complete procedure, youre contents will be lost. It is advised to use cut and paste for the telnet command's.


First connect youre USB stick on your dreambox. (if not already done) 
Power on dreambox 
Check if USB stick is recognised 
ls /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc 
If this gives an error, Youre device is not recognised and you cannot continue.

Clean disk pationing: 
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc count=10 
Shutdown enigma en let the DB go out. This is for 2 reasons 
Save enigma settings 
Make shure that stick is NOT mounted

Partition USB-Stick 
sfdisk /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc 
Press enter 4 times. sfdisk is asking questions about how to create 1th, 2nd, 3th, 4th partition. Defaults are fine

Now you get a warning 'no primary partition is marked bootable (active)' and a question if you want to write this to disk. Answer y to that question. 
If everything is OK, you are back on the telnet pronpt. 
Make an ext3 filesystem on the stick (reiserfs is NOT recommended for small devices) 
mke2fs -j /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 
sync

Now reboot the dreambox again. And the stick shoul be mounted in /m/scsi

When dreambox is up, check if stick is mounted. If it is not mounted, start over again and read more careful. 
cd /m/scsi 
ls 
You MUST see a directory called 'lost+found'. If you don't see that dir, you must start over again from the top. 
If you want to mount /var on USB stick do the following command, if you want to use the stick for other stuff skip it: 
cp -a /var /m/scsi 
touch /m/scsi/var/tmp/init 
sync 
Now reboot dreambox again and you should have a big /var filesystem