[clug] Embedded Debian - Live

[David Cottrill]

Do you have any suggestions for suppliers that will preload my images onto
the cards?

If so - do the hardware suppliers require *.img files or do they want
something more arcane and weird?

This one has been harder to get a hold of logically than the conceptual
running of operating systems to make others within so that the script can
chroot and build a new filesystem
Wheels within wheels...


On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Michael Cohen <scudette at gmail.com> wrote:

> David,
>  We use voyage linux (a debian based distro) for embedded stuff. I
> think the image is about 100-200MB though. Which is tiny these days
> (4Gb flash cards).
>
> Michael.
>
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 10:39 AM, David Cottrill
> <cottrill.david at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've jumped into the bottomless pit of rolling my own live Debian CF
> cards -
> > has anyone had experience with live-helper?
> > Live-magic seems rubbish - it has painfully few configuration options -
> an
> > aptitude interface would be perfect (for me). The screenshots around the
> web
> > are not current and display far more options than appear to be available.
> > I've got it to work correctly but it seems very keen to stop working.
> >
> > Right now I can squeeze the whole lot into ~60MB on disk and RAM at run
> time
> > but there is a lot more trimming to go (I need virtually none of the
> > standard libraries/programs).
> >
> > Has anyone got experience / clever ideas on how to implement persistence
> > without using seperate partitions?
> > Thanks,
> > David
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