[Elphel-support] LiveDVD, Firmware upgrades, etc

[Felix Schill]

Hi,

I have an Elphel 353 which was bought a year or two ago. The camera
works through the web interface, but not with mplayer (connection refused).
I am trying to update the firmware and start testing it. I spend quite
some time reading the wiki and everything I could find but I'm having no
success. My questions:

- Which way is currently recommended to update the firmware?

- Where can I find the LiveDVD 2.0 ? I only found the tar package on
SourceForge. I followed the instructions in the README provided, trying
to compile it with  the KNOPPIX_V4.0.2CD-2005-09-23-EN.iso image as
recommended, but it produces errors. I tried patching whatever I could
guess from the error messages but it keeps running into more errors.
The current error I get is:
[...]

+ test -n 'UCSRC5/new/*'
+ test -L 'UCSRC5/new/*' -o -e 'UCSRC5/new/*'
+ insmod cloop
+ true
+ test -e SRC/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX5
+ continue
+ read verison j
./livecd-make: line 204: UCSRC/new/etc/knoppix-version: No such file or directory
WAS ERRORS! See report in livecd-make.log


Isn't there a complete image somewhere, like for version 1.5? The
concept of a LiveDVD is great but not if you have to struggle to build
it yourself.
I also tried the version 1.5 (the iso image from SourceForge). It loads
the kernel but then bails claiming that it can't find the Knoppix file
system. I'm running a Dell Optiplex on Ubuntu 9.04. Maybe it doesn't
recognise my CD-ROM?

After that I tried using Prod353, but it seems that the instructions at
http://wiki.elphel.com/index.php?title=Prod353  are  out of date - the
commands provided seem to be in the wrong directory, and even after
running ./install_elphel the files "etraxfsboot" and "cmdline" are not
to be found where they are supposed to be.

Any help would be appreciated.

Felix