>ramdisk. My idea is to make an ext2 ramdisk on a debian-i386 system, >install a base debian-arm system with some extra packages (PPP, for >example) on it, compress the ramdisk and burn it into the flash memory on >the SA-1100 board. Is this idea possible at all? Yes, that should be no problem. The ext2 filesystem is portable across architectures, even those of different endianness or word size. p.