Pathagar OPDS Book Server - SheevaPlug Edition

Brief instructions:

This is a project that originated after meetings at the OLPC San Francisco Community Summit 2011. This image is a ready-to-go image that can be bitcopied using dd to a 2GB or greater USB stick, and plugged into a off-the-shelf SheevaPlug to run a Pathagar OPDS Book Server.  Get the image via torrent at http://www.clearbits.net/torrents/1865-pathagar---sheevaplug-edition-v001

dd if=pathagar-sheevaplug-0.01.img of=/dev/sdb

where sdb is your USB Stick. This process will create a boot partition, a root partition and a swap partition on the USB Stick.

The image is a Debian Squeeze image for ARM with Apache, sqlite, python, and python-django (Pathagar is written atop python-django). The image has two accounts:

• root (password is password. Change it ASAP!)
• bookserver (password is password. Change it ASAP!)

Pathagar runs in the bookserver account and the code sits at /home/bookserver/pathagar. The code we've used for this iteration is git'able from https://github.com/manuq/pathagar

The image runs a dhcp client, so you'll have to get clever to figure out the IP it gets from your DHCP server. We use wireshark with a filter looking for the SheevaPlug's MAC address. you can always change the IP behavior using the Debian Way. Once running, you can find the book server interface at <yourIPaddress> running at port 80. To administer Pathagar, go to <yourIPaddress>/admin and use the account "curator" with password password (change it ASAP!) to admin the account.

Anything else? Let us know. sverma@sfsu.edu or discuss on the mailing list at http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library