Re: howto install debian on netwinder?

[Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>]

>Is it possible to "build" NeTTrom from "source" using available Debian 
>tools?

I don't know.  I've never seen any source to NeTTrom, but I guess it must be 
at least partially under the GPL.  Maybe Rod will enlighten us.

>its own package.  After all, we want a complete free system, right?  I'm 
>not sure I understand your hesitation to have a NeTTrom package...

It just doesn't seem to me that having it packaged buys you much.  A nettrom 
package would be no use after it had been initially installed, so the only 
advantage is the marginal benefit of being able to upgrade it with apt-get 
rather than needing to download the image and manually write it.  Given that 
updating the firmware is a slightly hazardous operation, I don't really want 
to make it happen automatically.

>OTOH, if we want "something which installs on any Netwinder", then the 
>install should probably have a kernel which boots from old NeTTrom, and 
>supports flashwriting the new one, with NeTTrom available for flashwriting.

Yeah.

p.