And I did drop it in, and indeed it functions very well as a replacement. Now to explore the more advanced possibilities of the bubba2 (network storage, overnight torrent downloading, etc.).
At the last moment an almost-disaster occurred. I noticed a thing called ifplugd and thought: WTH? My debian desktop ("vega") doesn't run this, nor does procyon, why should it be necessary? So I cheerfully typed
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update-rc.d -f ifplugd remove
So now to the rescue stick. Set install, format, partitioning, setting the time, all to zero. Installed a dhcp server (udhcpd) on vega. In its config, offered a range of "leases" from 192.168.1.20 to 192.168.1.40 (on the same subnet that I normally use with static addresses). Pulled plug on antares (reset button did not work). Put stick in, kept button pressed for 5 seconds after putting plug back in.
The light never stopped flashing. Obviously the operation had failed. Out of a sense of gallows humour I tried pinging 192.168.1.20 through the WAN interface. Amazingly the pings came back. Then SSH'd to that address with password "excito". This also worked. You arrive in a strange desert. The command
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ls
Then cd / followed by ls revealed a directory called /mnt, with two subdirectories: usb and disk. usb contained my usb stick. disk was empty. After
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cd /
mount -t ext3 /mnt/disk /dev/sda1
The bubba2 "user manual", such as it is, says the "rescue" operation is the same as the "complete wipe and restore" operation. So one would expect that after a successful rescue the light would stop blinking. But it never does. The user manual should have a better description of the "rescue" feature. But it does work.