Hi, I have a bunch of boards running versions of Debian that I stripped of all the obvious unneeded files (like documentation). They are i386 boards (such as the PcEngines WRAP boards. Generating these was relatively easy as the PCs I run are all Debian boxes, so I built a disk image, stripped the unwanted files and copied them onto CF, ran Grub or Lilo to set up the boot loader and away we go.
Then OpenWRT came along, and I tried that, but I have had all manner of performance problems with that (for some reason the same boards run much slower and go into a serious slowdown when lots of ethernet traffic appears). OpenWRT does however have a complete config system (which is a little hard to automate, but it is possible) and does have lots of kernel patches for various boards (such as the Microtik RB1xx ADM5120 based boards). OpenWRT also specialises in making very small file images for machine (such as the WGT634U and the more recent Asus routers) but I do not really need that, building with a target CF size of about 64MB will do me fine - my old system achieved 80MB and I made little effort to remove unneeded base packages. Well I came across emdebian, and I thought that is much more what I want, and much closer to what I need and also closer to what I know. So looked for documentations, and found some bits and pieces in the Wiki, but what I need to get started (and could not find) was a simple howto which takes me from installing the tools, selecting the packages that I want beyond the basic set, downloading them and building them, and then building the target "disk" image installing all the packages that I have build. Does such a HowTo exist anywhere? If not I will try to write it as I go along, and contribute it back. To that end when I try to use emsource I get all kind of messages about not finding the source files - this may I suppose be a problem with the mirror I normally use, or it may be something I have missed along the way. My sources.list is set up just fine, and has both deb and deb-src entries in it. I thought the problem might be that I was using an apt-cacher, and so I removed that but it did not help. The error messages say that it can not find the dsc, tar and diff files for nano on that mirror. But looking at the mirror directly through a browser the relevant files are there (and with the right version). Any ideas? David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
