Re: "offline" install of Etch to SATA HDDs for MyBook World?
Jonsen, Dan wrote:
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> Do any of you know of a way to use an i386 Etch workstation to install a binary ARM distribution onto an "additional" set of HDs?
I don't know about etch, but I use sid/lenny and debootstrap to create armel
images all the time. Use the --foreign parameter.
The tricky part might be how to invoke the --second-stage. Maybe you could pass
init=/debootstrap/debootstrap --second-stage on the kernel command line, but it
will probably be more complicated than that because you need to mount proc and
export $PATH before debootstrap will complete. On all the targets I work with,
I have a console of some type (usually serial) to control the device with.
> Also, WD does put the source code for everything on the MyBook WEII on their website
Wow, I had no idea.... :)
Is this thing a better option than an NSLU2, for those with the budget? Hmmm...
b.g.
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Bill Gatliff
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