Remove this and the case comes apart pretty easily revealling the SD card. Removing the four rubber pads from the DreamPlug gives you access to four small screws. Again there are (probably) a number of ways to do that, however since the internal memory is just an internal SD Card I decided to remove it and reimage it. I wanted to keep the interfaces free so that meant storing it on the internal memory. You can even multiboot from external memory be it SD card or USB stick. There are a number of ways to change the OS on the DreamPlug. So Debian Squeeze seemed a likely candidate.

The first thing I wanted to do was upgrade the OS to something more recent but still stable. I also know it has an old version of bare bones version of Debian (Lenny) on it.

I know this because I can log into it through the JTAG connection. So to recap, the plug computer seem a cheap way to have your own bit of the cloud both in terms of capital cost and running costs. It is a pain but you only have to do it once and it works. I can confirm that the instructions here do work. Getting Putty to work with the dream plug and JTAG and SSH

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