On 24 May 2011 23:48, Phil Endecott <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear All, > > I now have an i.MX53 "quick start" board, which I have connected to a SATA > disk > and it is running the Freescale-supplied Ubuntu from it. > > Next I need to decide whether to try to install some form of Debian. (I guess > the alternative is to use this Ubuntu image as a starting point and to strip > it > down to something usable - but I don't know how well Ubuntu would cope with > the > sort of surgery that I have in mind.) > > I think this comes down to: > > - Will the Freescale-supplied Ubuntu kernel work with the Debian userspace(s)?
It should, the kernel is quite agnostic with regards to the float-abi. > - Is Debian armhf in a state where I can expect it to function? It depends what you want to do, 88% of the debian archive is built, but it's possible some of the packages you need are not there yet. > - Will debootstrap work, or is there some other suggested process for > installing > a base system? I have a 2GB sd card image at: http://freevec.org/packages/efikamx-armhf.img.xz just dd it on a SD card, change the kernel uImage/uInitrd (and the modules on the root fs) with your own and it should boot. it might be slightly older so just do an apt-get update/upgrade soon. > Looking slightly ahead, my next question will be whether I want to build > locally > on the device or to tackle the perennial pain of cross-compilation... Native should work :) > p.s. I am going to try to record my progress here: > http://chezphil.org/tvcomputer/ Thanks I'll take a look. Konstantinos -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
