Thanks for the links! I'll remember to do that on the next one.
Last night, I reset my dockstar...well, really I unplugged it to try the second box. As I was still puzzeled on HOW to keep it from accessing ONLY those few sites (again, thanks for the link...and wow, my IT days were long behind me...so I forgot about the hosts file!), I turned tha tone off and decided to try the first box again.
As soon as it turned on this time, my DHCP was still assigning it a gateway / etc. HOWEVER, this time, when I logged in with my ROOT password (set by the pogo cloud), I didn't get the:
"-bash" prompt
I got:
"Pogoplug:"
Since this was different, I plugged my previously fdisked hard drive back in. Waited 30 seconds until it spun up (and I assumed registered). I then ran:
"fdisk /dev/sda" WITHOUT the "busybox" prefix. Since that worked, I assumed I was in a "good" place to run the install script.
This time, the script ran flawlessly. Within 15 minutes, I had debian installed! Now, I just have to get a 1-16GB thumbdrive, so I can do this more permanently! Right now, I used a USB hard drive, as that's all I had laying around. That and 256MB and 512MB thumbdrives.
GREAT first step! Thanks for lighting the fire under my butt to try this! Now, I just have to figure out how (through command line) to change the sleep timeout for hard drives, as well as figure out how to install a RAID5 partition to my bunch of hard drives. I'd prefer ZFS, but I think only Ubuntu and FreeNas has that right now.
--Dan