I'll see what I can figure out when I find my Eee's box..

Some hours later, I've found it. But there's no access key on my 701's user manual. And I love how you have to log in in order to get to the help page. ..But not the FAQ page, which I'm supposing are the same thing.

Anyone with a 901 or the like, does the number on your user manual correspond to any other numbers? Say, the serial + something else?

Last edited by Hazor (2008-09-08 4:51:22 pm)

The code should be on the cover of one of your manuals, but only the 901/1000/1000H have the code. I have looked at the scripts very quickly on Xandros, but they are listed as zero byte .sh files, but when you click on them they bring up a GUI dialog box. I have no ideas how they are achieving this as they are not symbolic links to apps. If someone can tell me how they are achieving this, then I will get the code off for others to play with. On the yostore site the only download they offer is a windows client, but here on Xandros there is a fully working Linux client. Yet another schizophrenic option from Asus or Xandros, not sure which.

Until a solution is found I would recommend either using jungle or drop box both have ubuntu clients, the yostore did seem slow in comparison anyway.

Cod

I've got a code from YoStore. They have a Windows client for download, but that's about all I could find. I works (albeit s... l... o... w... - The band width is throtteled at 512 kbps, and I think there's a not too generous max file size limit too) just like a HDD. In Ubuntu, all I can do is access the web interface, which only allows for download. If/when the Linux client is released, hopefully it won't require KDE libraries, as the CNR client does...

/Zilver

laharrin wrote:

in the meantime, use the web interface?

If it allowed for upload, it'd be nice...

/Zilver

All,

It is possible to use the Eee Storage on Ubuntu (on any PC not just Eee PCs), but not without messing about.  One of the disks that comes with your Eee should be a bootable install DVD for the distro originally on the Eee (the Xandros one).  And it's possible to get the linux 'yostore' application off that DVD, and run it on Ubuntu.  On the DVD that came with mine there was a fail called P701L.gz, which is a compressed HDD image.

It is all very annoying but this is how I got it working:
- Uncompressed the P701L.gz file from the DVD
- Discovered the P701L file is a HDD image (with partition table and one ext2/3 partition, which happens to be the root partition)
- Used 'parted' and 'dd' to extract the ext2/3 partition
- Mounted the partition as a loopback device
- Copied the /opt/yostore directory and all of its contents

At this point I had the program on another laptop.  An initial read of the scripts in the yostore directory, and initial attempts of running the 'start.sh' script showed that the program expected a couple of files in order to run:

/opt/yostore/.yostore_dmi.txt
/home/user/.yostore
/home/user/.yostoreproxy
/etc/os-version

.yostore and .yostoreproxy can be empty files (touch /home/user/.yostore /home/user/.yostoreproxy).  I copied /etc/os-version file from the partition image found on the DVD.  The os-version file is some kind of Redhat convention.

.yostore_dmi.txt is generated for each Eee PC, there just happens to be a script called '/opt/yostore/dmi.sh' which generates the file.  You can run this script on your EeePC (so long as you have copied the os-version file into /etc) to generated the required '.yostore_dmi.txt' file.

The yostore thing works once all of these files are in place.

The only other thing is to install the required software dependencies, and enable fuse - no biggy just a Mono library, the 'libmono-winforms2.0-cil' package (there may be others, it depends on what is installed on your system to begin with).  Fuse is enabled by uncommenting the '#user_allow_other' line in '/etc/fuse.conf'.

After all of this is in place, you can run the '/opt/yostore/start.sh' to mount the Eee Storage to '/home/user/Eee Storage' and '/etc/yostore/stop.sh' to unmount it.

You can change the mount location by editing the 'start.sh' and 'stop.sh' file.  But whichever user runs the scripts, must have write access to '/home/user/{.yostore,.yostoreproxy}'.  That is to say that the location of those file is hardcoded, as is the location of the yostore executable (i.e. '/opt/yostore/').

Then, there is the issue of not having an access key - it is a non issue.  After the 'start.sh' program starts properly, some files will appear in '/home/user/Eee Storage'.  As so as you access the '/home/user/Eee Storage/Setup Account.sh' file, you will (assuming everything is working...) be greeted with an account registration form, where you accept terms and agreements and choose a username and password etc.  After which you can use the web gui, or the mount point for uploading/downloading file.

In my opinion, this yostore setup is rubbish - why couldn't they just use webdav or something?  Crazy times.

Hope it works for you!

Interestingly , it is possible to run the install DVD in virtualisation programs, such as virtualbox-ose, but the resulting installation didn't boot for me though...

Keep it real.

To peeeple,

I don't know how to mount a file as a whole disk.  I really want to take advantage from Yostore under Ubuntu.  Would you like to attach the listed files in your post?

Thanks,

Xiaoyong

Thanks peeeple, that was really helpful.  I just got it working after a few minor tweaks.

The eee PC 1000 I just got has a slightly different set of files and structure.  Here's how I got it going (going to borrow some of peeeple's code snippets):

Get the yostore files from the Linux Recovery DVD (mine is Rev.1.3) - this took about 3.2GB for me:

gunzip -cd P701L.gz | dd of=eeepc_hda1.img bs=512 skip=63

Mount the eeepc_hda1.img file:

sudo mkdir /mnt/eee_image

sudo mount -o loop,ro eeepc_hda1.img /mnt/eee_image

Now, on the eee PC, copy the /opt/yostore and /etc/os-version where they need to go:

sudo cp -R /mnt/eee_image/opt/yostore /opt
sudo cp /mnt/eee_img/etc/os-version /etc

Again, on the eee PC, run the dmi.sh (as root), and create the /home/user/.yostore and /home/user/.yostoreproxy files:

sudo /opt/yostore/dmi.sh
touch /home/user/.{yostoreproxy,yostore}

You may (I did) need to add the write permissions to the user 'user' for .yostoreproxy and .yostore:

chmod 755 /home/user/.yostore
chmod 755 /home/user/.yostoreproxy

And make sure to edit the /etc/fuse.conf to set 'user_allow_other'

sudo vim /etc/fuse.conf

I used vim here...you could use your favorite text editor. - Just remove the # in front of "#user_allow_other"

Next, add the software dependencies (libmono-winforms2.0-cil):

sudo apt-get install libmono-winforms2.0-cil

I'm had a little trouble with the start and stop scripts.  I had to sudo them:

sudo /opt/yostore/start.sh
sudo /opt/yostore/stop.sh

If anyone knows how to get this to work another way, let me know!

I also had to change the mount point to something else, since the stop.sh script unmounts the default /home/user/YoStore/, and when I try to restart using the start.sh script, it complained that
can't file /home/user/.yostoreproxy :Document element did not appear.  Line 1, position 1.

When I changed the start.sh and stop.sh scripts to use the mount point /home/user/YoDrive, it seemed to work.

The files appearing in my YoDrive are a little different from peeeple's also:
Activate my account.sh
Login.sh
Login Instructions.sh
Retrieve My Password.sh
YoStore Website.sh

Then, once logged in, the contents change to:
Logout.sh
My Contact.sh
Quick User Guide.sh
Settings.sh
What is Eee Storage.htm
YoStore Website.sh

and 3 directories:
Application Center
Sharing Center
Web Storage

which you will recognize once you've activated your advanced account from the web interface at
http://www.eeestorage.com/

Hope this helps somebody!

can you guys upload the disk somewhere (I don't know why you are complaining about copyrights, the software is OPEN SOURCE!). I have the Eee 901 windows because I could not wait for the Eee Linux and then I loaded Ubuntu on it so I don't have a Linux rescue disk.

Speed capped, file size limit, free for eee owners. Rather **** IMO.

/Zilver

It's all there at yostore. I didn't have a sticker, but after mailing them my serial they set me up. Not that I use it...

/Zilver