+++ Amandeep Bhullar [2009-04-22 10:04 -0300]: > Hi Friends, > > I am new to this so I might be asking something very simple. But I do need > your help. > I have an ARM based board AT91SAM9263-EK and I want to run Debian on it. I > am running U-Boot 2009.03. > What options do I have for installation. I don't have a CD-ROM interface > or Hard disk on it where I can boot from but I do have USB device ports > and can use USB stick. > Can I do it using USB stick?
The HD-media version of debian-installer is designed to install from USB-sticks. However there are a number of issues you wil face: The installer can not yet install to onboard (MTD) flash, only disks (including USB sticks) (you could have two?). There probably isn't a kernel in Debian to support your device so you'll have to mess about quite a lot to get a working kernel and corresponding modules installed, and the installer may not boot at all without finding out how to put a substitute kernel/modules in. > How will I do it. If you want to install to internal flash then Debian-installer is not much use. If installing to a USB drive/SD card/HD is OK then find the wiki pages on substituting a kernel and use your kernel+HD-media installer to install. An alternative is to make a rootfs with emdebian multistrap (or a debian rootfs with debootstrap), get that copied onto your device and boot into it with your normal kernel. This is how I install onto MTD devices (using a buildroot minimal rootfs to do the copying and installing). Wookey -- Principal hats: iEndian - Balloonboard - Toby Churchill - Emdebian http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
