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13. INSTALLING/REINSTALLING SOFTWARE
It is possible to reinstall a destroyed system. This is useful if you have
unintentionally destroyed something, have a disk crash or wish to
exchange the disk drive. The exact same procedure is used when
installing a new disk, either after an exchange, or if purchasing Bubba
without disk in the first place.
Note: All your personal data will be lost if doing this operation. A
complete hard drive format will be done.
Follow these instructions:
1. Download the recovery image at:
http://update.excito.net/install/latest
2. Insert a standard USB memory stick in to your PC (minimum size
128 MByte), and format it. Select FAT32 as file system if prompted.
3. Rename the file to ‘bubba.img’, and place it on the USB stick.
4. Shut down BUBBA.
5. Remove power to BUBBA.
6. Place the USB memory in BUBBA.
7. Make sure that BUBBA is connected to internet; this is needed
during installation (to set time etc.).
8. Hold the power button keeping it pressed, and plug in power cord
to BUBBA again.
9. Wait until BUBBA begins to flash it’s LED, now it’s safe to release
the button. BUBBA will now automatically format the disk, and
install the Linux file system on it. Note that this may take a while,
about 30 minutes with a 320 GB disk. Wait until the LED stops
flashing.
10.
Enter the web interface and do a firmware update (as
described in chapter
FIRMWARE UPGRADE
). All done!
