On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 10:58:16AM +0200, Christian Walther wrote: > I brought a Zaurus 5500 recently and I'm trying to find out what ROM > suits my needs best. I like the idea of having Debian running on my > Zaurus without any chroot-jail.So, is there any need to to have Debian > chrooted, or would it be possible to install it on a SD-card normally, > and use the card as the root, probably doing a pivot_root, or even by > compiling a kernel with root=/dev/mmcda1?
It is possible to run native Debian using pivot_root, I'm running it that way on my system. I don't have the resources to maintain a distribution for that, the advantage of the chroot approach is that it has few hardware dependencies. > Compiling opie and gpe on Debian should be possible, so both could be > used. (There are some gpe-packages in testing/unstable, so this has > been done at least partialy). If you create Debian packages for opie/gpe that work in an X11 environment that would be very useful. Last time I checked the ones in unstable didn't work, but that was a long time ago. > And my last question: When it is possible to do a "native" debian > install, what binaries of a Sharp/OE ROM are needed, are there any > binaries that are Zaurus specific? My innstall it was basically a one-shot approach based on taking pieces from the Sharp ROM as needed, and that isn't redistributable. You'll need the kernel, SD/MMC driver, and a minimal system (capable of running a shell script) to do the pivot_root. I used some of the Sharp components for pcmcia related things such as the iwconfig tool and /etc/pcmcia/* contents on top of the Debian pcmcia-cs package. Let me know if you want the shell script I use for the pivot_root. -Klaus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
