All, I got the Debian install to fit in flash, even with several extra things (like vim-gtk) installed, and it's currently showing 53M free. Here are (somewhat cleaned up) instructions:
Using the install.sh, installed Debian on my 4GB uSD card. Booted into Debian, did my apt-get stuff to add packages. In particular, I added: apt-get install subversion python-crypto python-gdbm python-gtk2 xauth x2x python-pysqlite2 vim-gtk gpaint tangogps gpsd apmd patch patchutils You probably will want to "apt-get clean" at this point. mkdir /var/tmp/root mount /dev/root /var/tmp/root On my workstation: ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] "mkfs.jffs2 -d /var/tmp/root -e 128 --pad --no-cleanmarkers" | pv -W > debian-rootfs.jffs2 (The "| pv -W" is optional, it just gives you something to watch as the bytes fly by.) Copy the /boot/uImage.bin to the workstation. (Or wget the one the install.sh grabbed.) Use dfu-util to flash the kernel image and the rootfs. Boot into Debian from the uSD again. mount /mnt/flash vim /mnt/flash/etc/fstab 1) Change the filesystem type for the rootfs line to jffs2 2) Comment out the mmcblk0p1 and mtdblock6 lines 3) Add a line: tmpfs /var/cache/apt tmpfs defaults,noatime 0 0 ... and save your changes. rm -rf /mnt/flash/var/cache/apt/* umount /mnt/flash Reboot, and let the FR boot from its internal flash. It will take a while, but debian should boot. If you want to run apt-get, you will need to mkdir -p /var/cache/apt/archives/partial (This http://www.nabble.com/Bug-314334:-apt:-APT-doesn't-work-on-filesystems-without-shared-writeable-mmap(),-like-JFFS2-td19080729.html may be a better solution, but I haven't tried it.) apt-get update took 5 minutes for me, and used a dozen MB in the rootfs temporarily, but I'm not anticipating apt-get to be a daily task on this once I get the basics worked out. The tmpfs for /var/cache/apt is necessary because apt uses mmap for some stuff in /var/cache/apt, and that doesn't appear to play well with jffs2. Comments, suggestions, etc, welcome. Eli ------------------. "If it ain't broke now, Eli Carter \ it will be soon." -- crypto-gram [EMAIL PROTECTED] `------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
