Re: install dpkg into arm board
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 12:46:52AM -0700, augsiva wrote:
> Is this thread alive , if so can you help in porting debian in IMX31, we
> have a board running linux in it with minimal package , but we need to
> install some debian packages supporting arm platform.So, we planned to port
> debian in it. Can i use the same bootloader for the debian also and can you
> explain in detail about how to develop debootstrap to generate a new
> rootfilesystem with debian in our IMX31 platform. please point me in correct
> direction to proceed.
Use whatever bootloader the system has. You should be able to use
debootstrap on the system, as long as you can get a few binaries onto
the system that it needs (I think wget and a couple of others are
needed, and probably perl).
One method would be to create the base of the chroot using a debian
system (like your PC) and do:
debootstrap --verbose --arch armel --foreign sid /mnt/targetdrive/newroot http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian
Then boot the system on an arm, and use chroot to finish the setup
chroot /newroot /debootstrap/debootstrap --second-stage
There are lots of ways to use debootstrap, either running it all on the
target, or running part on a different host, and just the second stage
on the target. It might even be possible to run the second stage in
qemu and have a completely ready rootfs to mount from whatever kernel
you already have for the system.
--
Len Sorensen
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