[Arm-netbook] CT-PC89E - samsung 8.9in arm netbook - debian lenny successfully installed

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Wookey <wookey at wookware.org> wrote:
> +++ Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton [2010-03-01 14:19 +0000]:
> Not quite sure what you are trying to say there, but emdebian-squeeze
> is Debian using busybox instead of gnu coreutils, and with dependency
> changes to make for smaller packages and thus is much more broken and
> much harder to maintain/install. It was done for lenny-arm but not for
> armel and further releases are on hold whilst we get more relevant
> stuff into Debian so that the maintainence burden is not completely
> crazy.

 oo, ok.

> However using grip is dead easy: you can switch from Debian to
> emdebian-grip by simply changing your apt-sources to point at grip
> deb http://www.emdebian.org/grip/ lenny main
> or
> deb http://www.emdebian.org/grip/ sid main
>
> and aptitude update/upgrade at which point it will replace all your
> debian packages with emdebian packages, shrinking the footprint and
> package-lists accordingly. Packages which only exist in Debian, not
> emdebian continue to work

 is that it?? loovely, i'll do that immediatement, and then upload the
resultant rootfs.

 thanks wookey.