-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi!
I'm trying to get Debian running on a Windows Mobile based PDA using HaRET. I have already managed to get a properly patched kernel booting on it, so the problem is reduced to having a working rootfs. Other, prepackaged rootfses like those of wing-linux (android) and gizard (gentoo-based) work fine, so now all that's left is figuring out how to do it with my favorite distribution. The device is a Qtek S200 (aka HTC Prophet, which is very close to a HTC Wizard). The arch I should be running is armel. - From searching the mailing lists, I've figured out that running Crush is probably a bad idea, because it does not have binary armel packages. This isn't so much of a disaster -- the main goal is to fit on SD cards, and the smallest ones I can buy in stores here are 1G/2G, so I don't really need the tinyness of Crush. The recommended installation methods for Grip seem to rely on debian-installer -- I'm not sure how to start that in my setup. I don't think the device can be convinced to try to boot from an USB stick. The crush page's section titled `daily builds and auto-install (> 1.3)` wouldn't work because I can't type in the 'www.emdebian.org' line. Anyway, I tried installing Grip using debootstrap (as described on http://www.emdebian.org/grip/ under Cross debootstrap) with the following command: sudo debootstrap --arch=armel --foreign --include=python2.5 lenny grip/ http://www.emdebian.org/grip/ This appeared to work, but when booting, I get the following messages (apparently the debootstrapped version does not come with an inittab): INIT: version 2.86 booting INIT: No inittab file found INIT: Entering runlevel: 4 INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel I'm guessing I need to create my own inittab, but I'd rather check with you people first to make sure I'm not missing any vital documentation that I should be reading, since the page doesn't mention anything about inittab :-) The goal would be to get a rootfs into which I can ssh/telnet to do stuff. The existing packages (wing-linux and gizard) do this with ethernet over USB. Thanks in advance, Laurens -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Use GnuPG with Firefox : http://getfiregpg.org (Version: 0.7.8) iEYEARECAAYFAkqO4AgACgkQT5v5zGkvKT5NgACg2xSuvWU+xQ3FXzZCe+gEbnJx RZcAn2GwIBnu18o45HeiP5op8GqSVb+Z =Wt7p -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
