OESF Portables Forum
Everything Else => Zaurus Distro Support and Discussion => Distros, Development, and Model Specific Forums => Archived Forums => Debian => Topic started by: scottlfa on December 29, 2007, 09:56:14 pm
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Is it possible to make a bootable image of this (http://tiny.seul.org/en/index.html) for the flash (nand)? If it could boot from the same kernel as 2ro0's then it would make the perfect companion too the distro. With tweaking it would make a grand emergency recovery option for those Z's running debian.
Ideally if it could be the rootfs, flashed along with 2ro0's kernel. Bootable from the mtd like pdaxrom etc ... I ramble
May require kernel tweaking ... its 2.4.20 as it present base.
Just an idea
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I think it's theoretically possible, but the software for that distro seems...dated (2005-ish). I think you could install OpenZaurus or Angstrom or Debian and get the same software packages (or equivalent replacements--I'm not sure any of them still have Netscape as a package, for example ). Angstrom is close to producing a stable release, and its default install is pretty small (~20 MB?) if you get the console image.
Personally, I run Debian EABI off of a 4 GB SDHC card, but I boot Angstrom on internal Flash as a backup.