On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 12:43:19PM +0200, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > Recently I bought a Freecom FSG device. > > It has 64 MB RAM, 266 MHz ARM CPU, built-in HDD, 4 ethernet ports, 4 USB > ports, 1 SATA port. > > Quite powerful as for a small device, I'd say it's enough to replace > some old servers. > > It runs some sort of Linux (big-endian), but I thought it would be a > better idea to try to run Debian-armeb on this device. > > To do this, I would need some sort of a "base filesystem" of a > Debian-armeb installation - that is, a minimal install, to which I could > chroot. > > I found something similar on Martin Michlmayr's website - > http://www.cyrius.com/debian/bcm947xx/wgt634u/ - a minimal Debian-mipsel > system in a tar.bz2 package. > > Is it possible to get such a minimal tar.bz2 package for Debian-armeb? > I don't have any other ARM machine where I could copy it from.
You can get debootstrap and run it on your existing linux install to create a chroot. That is what I did last time I had an arm machine with no debian support yet. I think all it requires is perl, wget and a couple of other standard components you should easily be able to get onto the existing system. A working kernel and modules is of course your own problem since debian likely doesn't have one for your system. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
