On Feb 28, 2011, at 12:18 AM, Arun Khan wrote: > On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Hal Vaughan <[email protected]> wrote: >> Either last week or the week before I was complaining that the wiki pages >> didn't make it clear >> enough what to do regarding the baud rate issue with the serial port when >> installing Debian Linux from a PXE boot. >> >> I've added a few lines to the entries I thought needed clarification and I'm >> still working on a new >> page that I should be able to post in 1-2 days about >> installing Debian Squeeze on a Soekris. But I have also completed something >> that took a little >> more work than just documentation (which we all know is hard enough!). >> >> I've created a Debian Squeeze image that can be installed directly on a >> compact flash (CF) card, >> then plugged into a Soekris box (I'm doing it on a Net5501, so I don't know >> what else it works on) and booted immediately. > > Another alternative is Voyage Linux (www.voyagelinux.hk). It is a > Debian derivative; v0.7 is based off Squeeze. It comes with a CLI > installer that can customize your CF for Soekris or ALIX boards. The > base install comes to about 128MB. You can extend it by adding your > favorite Debian repos and installing additional packages.
128MB? Interesting. I think the size of my default install was between 600-700 MB. I figured if I ever wanted smaller or if anyone using it wanted smaller, they could use apt to uninstall and put it in a script to run after the base install. Hal _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
