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Subject: [ts-7000] 7260: Installing Debian distro on an SD Card
From: "jywmpg" <>
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 15:33:05 -0000
Hi All,

I have a new 7260 and a new SanDisk 2.0GB SD card and would like to
install a clean Debian distribution on the SD card, then set up to
boot and pivot to the  SD card.

I have done the second part (boot and pivot) before, but haven't seen
a writeup on the first part (installing a clean Debian distro on a new
 SD card).

It looks like the three partition setup is required for the pivot so
the process seems like it should be:

1. Run fdisk on /dev/sdcard0/disc0/disc to create the three
partitions, resulting in the following map:

                  Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdcard0/disc0/part1   *   1   4        8032+  da Unknown
/dev/sdcard0/disc0/part2       5   8        8064   da Unknown
/dev/sdcard0/disc0/part3       9   984     1967616 83 Linux

2. Run mkfs.ext3 to create a file system on part3
3. Mount the file system on part3 as, say /sdcard. 
4. ftp the Debian tar file into /sdcard
5. untar the Debian distro into /sdcard

6. Set up the boot and pivot as described in 
http://www.seiner.com/ts7000/index.php/Booting%20to%20SDCard

Should this procedure work?

I ran into some h/w problems in the middle of this process, so I did
not get to find out if this approach is workable


If there are any errors or omissions in the above, I would grateful if
 someone would point them out.

Thanks very much,


jw








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