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Compact Flash Debian Gnu/Linux
Introduction
This is a Debian-based Linux system to run on compact flashes. Following are some of its features:
- Stable (Sarge) Debian distribution.
- Standard installation of about 150M in size.
- kernel 2.6.8.
- Writable fielsystems. It is designed to minimize writable accesses to the CF. However, it is recommended to use external storages, as flash memory is limited and not very reliable.
- Expandable to add more standard Debian packages through dpkg mechanism.
- Reliable EXT3 journalling filesystem.
- Designed for the OpenBrick-E, which is booted from the secondary IDE master drive (/dev/hdc). There are other images to allow booting from the "classic" OpenBrick, or systems that boot from the primary IDE master drive (/dev/hda).
Installation
To install the Debian filesystem on a compactflash system, you will need the following:
- Download the correct image for your compact flash.
- Using USB compactflash reader/writer to write the image to the compact flash. For example, use the following command to write the image to a 256MB compact flash for the OpenBrick-E, or systems booting from the secondary IDE master drive, (/dev/hdc).
gunzip -c debian-sarge-256-hdc.img.gz | dd of=/dev/sda bs=16k
- After the initial installation, it is recommended to run the "base-config" command if a standard Debian configuration is desired.
- Further customization is possible by running "aptitude" to install Debian packages.
Compact Flash images
For OpenBrick-E or systems booting from the secondary IDE master drive, (/dev/hdc).
For "classic" OpenBrick or systems booting from the primary IDE master drive, (/dev/hda).
Notes:
- The "root" password is blank. Please secure your installation immediately.
- There is no warranty. The software is meant for experts. It could destroy your hard drive.
- Please contact Hacom if you wish to utilize our technical services to customize this distribution for commercial embedded implementations.
- Please check the archive site at http://support.hacom.net/pub/debian/ for other Debian images.
