OpenBlocks

1. Guides
2. Firmware
3. Serial setup tool
4. Images
5. OBS CD-ROM contents
6. Compiled Software
7. SSD/Linux Development Environment
8. Links

Guides

• Quick Setup Guide (Last update: Sep 04th, 2008)
• User's Guide (Last update: Sep 04th, 2008)
• Serial Setup Tool Guide (Last update: Sep 04th, 2008)
• Hardware Guide (Last update: Sep 04th, 2008)
• Development Environment Guide (Last update: Sep 04th, 2008)
• Web Setup Guide (Last update: Sep 04th, 2008)
• Compact Flash Card Initialization Howto
• Firmware Update Howto
• VoIP (SIP) Server with OpenBlockS and Asterisk
• Reliable small-scale webserver with OBS, Apache, Mysql and PHP

Model numbering

Example: OBS266/128/16R

OBS - OpenBlockS
266 - processor speed (MHz)
128 - RAM size (MB)
16 - Internal flash ROM size (MB)
R - RoHS compliant

Firmware

The following firmware versions for the OBS are available:

Firmware types

STABLE

Safe production version. Use when you have problems with other versions or in production environments where reliability is key.

RELEASE

Official release version. Use for all normal purposes. Update to the newest version to get all features and bugfixes.

CURRENT

Developer version. Includes all newest updates, but may contain bugs or be unreliable. Use at your own risk.

Please see the User's Guide for update procedures.

Serial Setup Tool

With this tool, you can log into the OpenBlockS server from your PC over the serial port.

# /usr/sbin/flashcfg -c hda1
	

Images

SSD/Linux for OBS

0.4-RELEASE-20071020 (23 Oct 2007)

File contents

• binary
  A HDD image, split up in base.cf.tgz, base.tgz, comp.tgz, contrib.tgz, etc.cf.tgz, etc.tgz, kern.tgz, man.tgz. If it is installed on a Compact Flash Card or HDD, you can boot from that device.
• distfiles
  Source files of all software
• installation-08, installatione-16
  RAM disk images of all firmware
  • zImage.initrd.treeboot-product
    Basic image that contains all necessary commands.
  • zImage.initrd.treeboot
    As zImage.initrd.treeboot-product but does not include Web setup tool
  • zImage.initrd.treeboot.big-product
    Image with additional programs. Contrary to zImage.initrd.treeboot-product, the RAM disk size is 32MB. bash is included instead of sh, and it contains sshd.
  • zImage.initrd.treeboot.big
    As zImage.initrd.treeboot.big-product but does not include Web setup tool
  • zImage.initrd.treeboot.pcmcia-product
    Different from zImage.initrd.treeboot-product, the RAM disk size is 32MB and it contains bash instead of sh. Drivers for the optional PCMCIA module are included.
  • zImage.initrd.treeboot.pcmcia
    As zImage.initrd.treeboot.pcmcia-product but does not include Web setup tool
  • ramdisk*
    By mounting a file as a loop device, different commands can be customized within. Corresponds to the firmware above.
• SerialTool
  Tool for setup over the serial port
• source
  Source files

Debian for OMS

Debian HDD Image (02 Jun 2007)

OBS CD-ROM contents

STABLE-20030708 (26 Aug 2003)

Other tools

Warning: The following packages are unsupported. Use at your own risk. Please confer to the readme file.

Macros for Tera Term Pro

Tera Term Pro is a Windows-based terminal software. Please refer to the README files for details.

• flashcfg.ttl (README - Japanese)
  Firmware update
• cfmake.ttl (README - Japanese)
  Creates a bootable CF card
• hdmake.ttl (README - Japanese)
  Creates a bootable hard disk.

Additional packages

Warning: The following packages are unsupported. Use at your own risk. Please confer to the readme file.

README, LIST, MEMO, ChangeLog
Download folder

Development environment

SSD/Linux Distribution for x86

About SSD/Linux

References

• SSD/Linux User Guide
• SSD/Linux sysinst(8) Howto
• SSD/Linux Developer's Notes
• SSD/Linux /etc

Links

Contact

For questions and support on the OpenBlockS, contact us at support@plathome.com.