On Sat, 2008-08-30 at 11:32 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > Dear developers, > > with great interest I read your message of running debian on freerunner. > > According to this, I asked myself, if there might be an easy way to install > debian on a Sharp Zaurus SL-C1000. I googled, but I only found some homebrew > images and ways of install with very oold kernels (or japanese environments > and so on).
Probably better to discuss this on the debian-embedded mailing list. CC'd. > I hope, that the knowledge of "installing debian on freerunner" might be > easyly transferred to be able to install debian on the Zaurus machine. The > Zaurus got a strong-arm cpu, as well as the freerunner. Depending on the amount of storage available, you might want to use Debian or Emdebian but Emdebian for armel is not ready yet. > Maybe it might be much more easy to build a kernel and the required content > on > the sd-card ? The main problem, IMO is to create the kernel. It must be in > the flashable format (at the moment I am using angstrom-distribution). If a > kernel can be flashed, you need the rest of the content (the "initrd") which > must be put onto the sd-card. A file in tgz-style should do it (can be > unpacked onto the sd-card using a cardreader). > > Are there efforts at the moment to get debian in an easy way(!) on the > Zaurus-series ? > > I am no coder, but feel free to ask for help (i.e. testing and feedback) > > Regards > > Hans > > -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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