Hi Neil, As suggested by you, I am using Grip for my ARM board. I have the tarball after following the following steps, on my Debian based desktop.
$ mkdir grip/ $ sudo debootstrap --arch=arm --foreign lenny grip/ http://www.emdebian.org/grip/ $ cd grip/ $ sudo tar -czf ../emdebian-grip-arm-debootstrap.tgz . $ cd ../ $ sudo rm -rf ./grip/ What do we do next with this tarball? Thanks. On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Neil Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 5 Jun 2009 13:32:11 -0300 > Amandeep Bhullar <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Thanks Neil for the detailed reply. I now understand what you mean. I > > have this situation: My major objective of installing Emdebian Crush > > on the ARM board was to run Qt for Embedded Linux on the board. Since > > Qt need to be configured and built after downloading .tar file, and > > in absence of g++ or gcc running on the board, I wont be able to do > > it. This is what I want to do > > - http://doc.qtsoftware.com/4.5/qt-embedded-install.html > > There's a reason why Qt is not already in Emdebian Crush . . . . > > > Is there an alternative to having Qt installed on my board? Which of > > the follwoing two alternative you suggest or any other you have in > > your mind. > > > > 1. I dont mind a bigger (up to 70 - 80MB) filesystem but should have > > ability to compile and build packages. > > Then use Emdebian Grip - although you'll need to be running armel. I'm > working on adding the relevant -dev packages and support tools for Grip > but you can always pull in the packages from Debian Sid instead because > Grip is binary compatible with Debian. > > > I was wondering if I can use > > # debootstrap --arch arm lenny /RootFS > > See multistrap or the Grip installation guides. > > > to create a filesystem and then create a jffs2 image from it and use > > it. I tried it and it loads the filesystem just fine on the baord but > > after that an error comes up - unable to open initial console. > > Your /etc/inittab needs adjustment before packing up the files to > create the image. > > > Also > > the file system created this way has no inittab under etc folder. I > > wonder if you can comment on what in addition i must do to do this > > file system work. Emdebian used Busybox initailly, I dont know what > > the filesystem created like this is using. > > You have a chance to modify any file before you create the image. > > > 2. Second option is to keep using Emdebian Crush , configure and make > > Qt for arm on my Debian desktop, bring entire Qt folder to arm board > > and then just do a make install on the board. I am absolutely > > clueless, if it is a good (workable) option at all or it sounds very > > foolish. > > Using Crush for Qt is not a practical option. > > -- > > > Neil Williams > ============= > http://www.data-freedom.org/ > http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ > http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms/ > >
