On Fri, 5 Jun 2009 13:32:11 -0300 Amandeep Bhullar <arm.debian@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Neil for the detailed reply. I now understand what you mean. I > have this situation: My major objective of installing Emdebian Crush > on the ARM board was to run Qt for Embedded Linux on the board. Since > Qt need to be configured and built after downloading .tar file, and > in absence of g++ or gcc running on the board, I wont be able to do > it. This is what I want to do > - http://doc.qtsoftware.com/4.5/qt-embedded-install.html There's a reason why Qt is not already in Emdebian Crush . . . . > Is there an alternative to having Qt installed on my board? Which of > the follwoing two alternative you suggest or any other you have in > your mind. > > 1. I dont mind a bigger (up to 70 - 80MB) filesystem but should have > ability to compile and build packages. Then use Emdebian Grip - although you'll need to be running armel. I'm working on adding the relevant -dev packages and support tools for Grip but you can always pull in the packages from Debian Sid instead because Grip is binary compatible with Debian. > I was wondering if I can use > # debootstrap --arch arm lenny /RootFS See multistrap or the Grip installation guides. > to create a filesystem and then create a jffs2 image from it and use > it. I tried it and it loads the filesystem just fine on the baord but > after that an error comes up - unable to open initial console. Your /etc/inittab needs adjustment before packing up the files to create the image. > Also > the file system created this way has no inittab under etc folder. I > wonder if you can comment on what in addition i must do to do this > file system work. Emdebian used Busybox initailly, I dont know what > the filesystem created like this is using. You have a chance to modify any file before you create the image. > 2. Second option is to keep using Emdebian Crush , configure and make > Qt for arm on my Debian desktop, bring entire Qt folder to arm board > and then just do a make install on the board. I am absolutely > clueless, if it is a good (workable) option at all or it sounds very > foolish. Using Crush for Qt is not a practical option. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms/
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