On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Paul Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
"debootstrap --second-stage" did the trick. There were a few issues with udev, so I removed it (I didn't want udev anyway), and now it's working correctly. thanks, Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
