On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 09:28 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > I'll add a check to emchain so that if the toolchains are already > installed, it tells you not to bother trying to build them.
Well, hopefully not too many people are as dense as me 8) > So far, Emdebian has only booted on a balloon3 board - it is as far as > we have got. It's all yet to be done. > > Unfortunately, you are on your own at that stage and the solution > depends entirely on your hardware. I am looking at weaving emsandbox > into the Debian installer but as I've only managed to get a bootable > root filesystem in the last few weeks, there hasn't been time. Ah that explains it. I've at least figured out how to uncompress the archive - because it has /dev linux won't let me decompress into the main filesystem. I eventually figured out I could mount an empty disk image (empty initrd.img) and decompress onto that. I was looking at putting everything into an initrd but the gpe install required a 30mb initrd. Sooo, I've downsized to the buildd version (I only have 32mb each of ram/nand). I'd like to get a gui going but I think I need to get a handle on the whole bootloader-zImage-initrd process before I start figuring out how to strip down the GUI install. I've abandoned the initramfs idea for now. There are a lot more examples of initrd boots on the net than initramfs so thats probably my best chance at getting windows off this unit and linux on! If I run into much more trouble I think I'll just order a development board from someplace reputable that already has linux and all the instructions on how to set up the system. Right now I'm working blind! The units I'm working with are the IntelliLCD and CUWin from cubloc.com which are WinCE based and meant to simply run serial commands or windows apps from a nand disk. http://cubloc.com/product/05_01.php http://cubloc.com/product/02_05.php The CUWin is real nice with that mountable bezel and all the IO extras and my ultimate target. I would be nice to get one with more ram and nand though. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
