Re: Native Debian on Zaurus 5500?
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 10:58:16AM +0200, Christian Walther wrote:
> I brought a Zaurus 5500 recently and I'm trying to find out what ROM
> suits my needs best. I like the idea of having Debian running on my
> Zaurus without any chroot-jail.So, is there any need to to have Debian
> chrooted, or would it be possible to install it on a SD-card normally,
> and use the card as the root, probably doing a pivot_root, or even by
> compiling a kernel with root=/dev/mmcda1?
It is possible to run native Debian using pivot_root, I'm running it that
way on my system. I don't have the resources to maintain a distribution
for that, the advantage of the chroot approach is that it has few
hardware dependencies.
> Compiling opie and gpe on Debian should be possible, so both could be
> used. (There are some gpe-packages in testing/unstable, so this has
> been done at least partialy).
If you create Debian packages for opie/gpe that work in an X11
environment that would be very useful. Last time I checked the ones in
unstable didn't work, but that was a long time ago.
> And my last question: When it is possible to do a "native" debian
> install, what binaries of a Sharp/OE ROM are needed, are there any
> binaries that are Zaurus specific?
My innstall it was basically a one-shot approach based on taking pieces
from the Sharp ROM as needed, and that isn't redistributable. You'll need
the kernel, SD/MMC driver, and a minimal system (capable of running a
shell script) to do the pivot_root. I used some of the Sharp components
for pcmcia related things such as the iwconfig tool and /etc/pcmcia/*
contents on top of the Debian pcmcia-cs package.
Let me know if you want the shell script I use for the pivot_root.
-Klaus
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