Re: [ts-7000] TS-7800 Running Debian etch on this board?

[Andrew Taylor <>]

On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 02:07:38PM -0800, Arthur Bebak wrote:
> Has anybody had any success running Debian Etch on the TS-7800?
> There appears to be an etch distribution here:
> ftp://oz.embeddedarm.com/ts-7800-linux-sd/distributions/debian-etch-eabi-armel-512MB-oct042007.tar.gz
> ....
> Apparently you get an error because the etch distribution tarball does not
> have /dev/ttyS0 defined. This causes an error message about missing /dev/ttyS0
> at that line.

I NFS booted this distribution succesfully by creating
/dev/ttyS0 (mknod dev/ttyS0 c 4 64 I think) in the tree
after untarring it.  You should be able to do this after untarring to
the SDcard I assume.

Another gotcha in that tarball.  /etc/hosts had an apparently incorrect
address for armel-debs.applieddata.net hard-wired which stopped apt-get
working.

Andrew