On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Bill Gatliff <[email protected]> wrote: > Paul Thomas wrote: >> >> I know this is a lot of info, but I would appreciate any help anyone >> can offer. When I get this all worked out I plan to publish a >> mini-tutorial on the opencircuits site. >> > > I've taught on this topic at the Embedded Systems Conference, actually. I'd > be happy to help you with that tutorial if you like! > > The first-stage debootstrap doesn't create very many device nodes, in > particular the console node and most of the ttyS*'s. I haven't bothered to > track the reason down, but I bet it's because they're created in a script > that will only run during the second stage of the bootstrapping process--- > and a foreign-architecture debootstrap only runs the first stage. So I just > create them manually. > > Then I boot the board to a shell, either nfsroot'ing to the new filesystem > or in a chroot. Then I run /debootstrap/debootstrap --second-stage. After > that, you'll just need things like an fstab, /etc/network/interfaces, and > such. > > Once you've got that all set, you have a fully-functional [em]Debian > environment. > > > b.g. > > -- > Bill Gatliff > [email protected] >
Thanks Bill, I'll try that. I actually attended one of you sessions at the 2007 ESC thanks, Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
