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Subject: [ts-7000] Want to boot 7250 into Debian Sarge
From: "Mike Dodd" <>
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2011 03:30:49 -0000
I think I've almost figured out what I need to do to boot a 7250 into Debian 
over NFS or on a USB drive.

Will someone please tell me if I'm on the right track?

* Reading the TS ARM Linux Developer's Manual, I see the section about 
partitioning and formatting a CF card. Does this apply to a USB drive as well?

* The manual also says, "...then unpack the Development file system for NFS 
root or Compact Flash." I have downloaded 
debian-sarge-256MB-05-01-2006.tar.bz2. I How do I find the correct file system 
for NFS _or_ CF in it? If I do 'tar xjf filename' it seems that tar will 
extract eerything.

* Looking through the barball contents listing, I see (for example) gcc and 
arm-gcc. Are both of these installed with Debian? Do they both compile for the 
7000-series?

I know how to set up an NFS share, and the manual tells me how to boot to it 
from RedBoot, so I should be good to go once I find the NFS system in the 
tarball.

Maybe I misunderstood the manual. Is it the _same_ system for both NFS and 
CF/USB? If so, should I just extract everything into a directory tree and mount 
that tree on NFS?

Or, to use a USB drive, do I fdisk/format it ext2, then copy the entire tree to 
it?

Thanks for any guidance.

--- Mike




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