Re: second stage?
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Bill Gatliff <bgat@billgatliff.com> wrote:
> Paul Thomas wrote:
>>
>> I know this is a lot of info, but I would appreciate any help anyone
>> can offer. When I get this all worked out I plan to publish a
>> mini-tutorial on the opencircuits site.
>>
>
> I've taught on this topic at the Embedded Systems Conference, actually. I'd
> be happy to help you with that tutorial if you like!
>
> The first-stage debootstrap doesn't create very many device nodes, in
> particular the console node and most of the ttyS*'s. I haven't bothered to
> track the reason down, but I bet it's because they're created in a script
> that will only run during the second stage of the bootstrapping process---
> and a foreign-architecture debootstrap only runs the first stage. So I just
> create them manually.
>
> Then I boot the board to a shell, either nfsroot'ing to the new filesystem
> or in a chroot. Then I run /debootstrap/debootstrap --second-stage. After
> that, you'll just need things like an fstab, /etc/network/interfaces, and
> such.
>
> Once you've got that all set, you have a fully-functional [em]Debian
> environment.
>
>
> b.g.
>
> --
> Bill Gatliff
> bgat@billgatliff.com
>
Thanks Bill, I'll try that. I actually attended one of you sessions at
the 2007 ESC
thanks,
Paul
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