Re: [iPAQ] debian-arm success

Stupendous!
                                - Jim

> Sender: ipaq-admin@handhelds.org
> From: Vladimir Vukicevic <vladimir@helixcode.com>
> Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 03:22:46 -0400
> To: ipaq@handhelds.org
> Subject: [iPAQ] debian-arm success
> -----
> I've just finished setting up a debian-arm system over NFS on the
> iPAQ, based on Jim Pick's Netwinder debian-arm starter image. The
> process is fairly straightforward.. first, get Jim's image from
> http://jimpick.com/pub/debian/arm/image/ and untar it on a box that
> will be the server. Make sure you untar as root, so that the proper
> owners and permissions can be set. Then, export that directory over
> NFS -- make sure you give the no_root_squash option in the export
> line.
>
> On the iPAQ, mount that directory somewhere, /skiff works. I'd
> suggest using soft,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 as the mount options -- the
> 8k block sizes help transfers, and it's a little unclear as to what
> the defaults are. If you get RPC errors, unmount, and remount with
> 'nolock' -- you either have to have a working lockd setup, or no
> locking at all, otherwise things will fail that try to lock. One thing
> you should also do now is set the ipaq's clock (using date), since it
> seems to start at 0. :-)
>
> Now chroot to this new directory. chroot is available on the nfs you
> just mounted -- '/skiff/usr/sbin/chroot /skiff' should do it. Do ls
> /. You should see things like /Image and stuff which aren't on your
> iPAQ / image. Great! Now, mount proc -- 'mount -t proc /proc
> /proc'. Now edit /etc/apt/sources.list and comment out all the lines
> and add:
>
> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free
>
> [Note to veteran debian users: do NOT use unstable. unstable in arm
> doesn't quite mean the same thing as it does in x86 -- it means that
> not only are packages bleeding edge, but 75% of the time they won't
> even install correctly. Save yourself some grief. :-) ]. Now, you will
> have to update apt by hand -- the version that's on the image is old,
> and will segfault when you try to do anything. Grab
> http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/binary-arm/base/apt_0.3.19.
> deb
> and put it somewhere within the nfs tree (/tmp works great). [Note
> that you can do this on either the iPAQ or the server, doesn't
> matter.] Then, on the ipaq, cd into /tmp or wherever, and type 'dpkg
> -i apt_0.3.19.deb'. Now, with a working apt, you can type
> 'apt-get update' and then 'apt-get dist-upgrade'. It will churn for
> a while, then have you download a bunch of packages, then churn for a
> while more. When it's done, you'll have a very minimal, but
> up-to-date, debian-arm system.
>
> The next thing to do is install useful packages -- task-c-dev is a
> good one. The one major issue is that the X packages there are still
> 3.3.6 -- I'm going to see if I can somehow cobble in the 4.0 bits
> (install 3.3.6, build 4.0 from the CVS source, and install on top of
> it). (If you're not familiar with debian, you can use dselect, or read
> the apt-get and apt-cache man pages.)
>
> Even with a ton of stuff installed (i.e. full GNOME and X, plus
> development), it's still under 300MB -- make sure you run 'apt-get
> clean' when you're done getting stuff to get rid of the downloaded
> .debs.
>
> Now to set up nfsroot (first to find out how to get rid of 512k kernel
> limit...)..
>
> - Vlad
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Jim Gettys
Technology and Corporate Development
Compaq Computer Corporation
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