On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 23:34:50 +0200 Achim Scheidl <AchimRS@gmx.de> wrote: > I had little problems with rsync, later I found out that it needs one > of apt-utils or util-linux - not sure anymore util-linux - because that's Essential in Debian. apt-utils is not, so would have to be listed. > And I had massive problems with getty, which cost me more than a day. That is more typical of normal embeddedness - /etc/inittab and similar problems are usually hardware-specific or user-case specific. > In my case I reinstall a small ARM9 controller delivered without a > distribution (the vendor basically delivers a kernel with some files, > no package manager) So I put Emdebian over the already existing files > and now being able to easily install Apache, mySQL, PHP and all the > things I need... Putting a distribution over the top of existing files is usually asking for trouble. Wasn't there a way of creating a foreign filesystem on another box and only copying over files that have not been already created inside the Emdebian filesystem? Multistrap is probably the best tool for that > ... at the end I'm very happy with Emdebian, it is a very small and > stable Distribution, saving me weeks of trouble compiling the > sources. Perfect for my case :-) Feel free to add your experiences to the Wiki - it can only help someone else. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms/
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