--- In Jim Jackson <> wrote:
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, 5 Aug 2007, j.chitte wrote:
>
> > Sure I could do all this by hand the hard way and research the
> > depandancies on the net but the whole point of using a distro is
that
> > all this hard work has already been done and kept upto date.
Debain
> > maintains ARM arch so it's stupid to take advantage of what is
> > available.
>
> Or you do it the hardway by starting from the debian image and
removing
> packages to strip the image down to as small as you can get it. If
oyu can
> get it small enough to fit in the onboard flash then you've got a
winner.
> If, as I suspect, you find it won't strip down small enough - well
you'll
> still have learnt something :-(
>
thanks for the reply Jim.
I'm sure TS spent a lot of time shoehorning TSlinux down to a
minimum, I'd like to build on that not repeat the job.
I'm trying a crude cut and paste attempt and grafting the debain
image apt into TSlinux. I dont really expect it to work but it's
worth a shot.
If not I suspect if I spend half a day digging into the apt-get doc I
could configure some directory options somewhere and get it to dump a
particular pkg into a prefix which could be my TS image.
like you say , this is Linux ... ;)
> But, the TSLinux on-board image doesn't have package management.
The full
> blown debain image does. By the way, you don't have to run the full
debian
> image via NFS. On the TS7200 you can put it on, and run it from a
CFDisk -
> on the other boards I assume you can run it from an SDcard. I'm
sure you
> can boot to the debian image on a USB filesystem with a suitable
initrd
> setup. The possibilities are endless - this is Linux, and this is
why TS
> can't meet all possibilities - unless you pay them :-)
I'm working on a 7250 , without SD. In view of the baudrate of the
USB2 interface (USB1.1 speeds) I think that would be horribly slow.
I've sorted the nfs problem and it boots fine to my TSlinux image on
the server now.
It's taken be quite a bit more time than I expected to get it set up
but I'm pretty pleased with what TS supplied. In view of the
footprint I think they've got quite a lot of useful functionality
into a very small space.
I just hope there's enough functionality in BusyBox to support debian
arm packages.
/js
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