Andrew Taylor wrote:
> 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.
>
That worked, thank you very much. The distribution boots from the SD card and
produces a login prompt, however not without errors which are apparently
related to corrupt files on the SD card - that may just be a bad copy to the
SD card.
> Another gotcha in that tarball. /etc/hosts had an apparently incorrect
> address for armel-debs.applieddata.net hard-wired which stopped apt-get
> working.
Indeed. In addition the /etc/apt/sources.list in the tarball also appears point
to some servers with a mixture of sid and sarge. It consists
of the following lines, which certainly don't point at etch stable:
deb http://armel-debs.applieddata.net/debian sid main
deb-src http://nl.arm.mirror.debian.net/debian/ sarge main
deb-src http://nl.arm.mirror.debian.net/debian/ sid main
Anyway, there is some progress in that I can log in as root at the console.
--
Arthur Bebak
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