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<b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> lkcl luke <luke.leighton@gmail.com><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Linux on small ARM machines <arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, 22 April 2012, 1:12<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Arm-netbook] Request SD card image<br> </font> </div> <br>On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 10:28 PM, Paul Kench <<a ymailto="mailto:paulkench@yahoo.co.uk" href="mailto:paulkench@yahoo.co.uk">paulkench@yahoo.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br><br>> Annoyingly the script2fex thing generates identical files for them both. At<br>> least it lets me boot my debian image and have a network. X is
overrated!<br><br> :)<br><br> ah... you've got a debian image already? can you make it available?<br><br> l.<br><br><br>
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I was able to get the original ubuntu card to access wifi but not
ethernet. Apparently the evb.bin (script.bin) which it loads lets X
start but not the ethernet, whereas the "stock" bin lets the ubuntu
image access the ethernet, but crashes when X starts. (Thanks to Alejandro for the help and pointers).<br>
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<br><div id="yiv2060059060yui_3_2_0_20_1335032553294318">Also the wifi doesn't work, although it has the same kernel and modules as the ubuntu image.</div><div id="yiv2060059060yui_3_2_0_20_1335032553294363"><br></div><div id="yiv2060059060yui_3_2_0_20_1335032553294364">Here are the components</div><div id="yiv2060059060yui_3_2_0_20_1335032553294379"><br></div><div id="yiv2060059060yui_3_2_0_20_1335032553294380">uboot: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1397036/mele/mele_uboot.img<br>
</div><div id="yiv2060059060yui_3_2_0_20_1335032553294387"><br></div><div id="yiv2060059060yui_3_2_0_20_1335032553294388">boot partition: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1397036/mele/mele_boot_part.cpio.gz<br>
</div><div id="yiv2060059060yui_3_2_0_20_1335032553294404"><br></div><div id="yiv2060059060yui_3_2_0_20_1335032553294405">debian partition: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1397036/mele/mele_debian_armhf_minimal.cpio.gz<br>
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To extract a cpio image, mount the destination partition, cd into it: gunzip -c image_file | cpio -i</div><div id="yiv2060059060yui_3_2_0_20_1335032553294422"><br></div><div id="yiv2060059060yui_3_2_0_20_1335032553294423">To use the files, an SD card partitioned like the original SD is required.<br>
</div><div id="yiv2060059060yui_3_2_0_20_1335032553294486"><br></div><div id="yiv2060059060yui_3_2_0_20_1335032553294487">First,
type 83 (Linux) sectors 2048 - 34815, format it vfat. (Not sure which
of these factors are critical/necessary, I'm just slavishly copying for
now).</div><div id="yiv2060059060yui_3_2_0_20_1335032553294547">Extract the boot partition into it.<br></div><div id="yiv2060059060yui_3_2_0_20_1335032553294517"> <br></div><div id="yiv2060059060yui_3_2_0_20_1335032553294518">Second, type 83 (Linux), size whatever you like, format it ext4.</div><div id="yiv2060059060yui_3_2_0_20_1335032553294541">Extract the debian partition into it.<br>
</div><div id="yiv2060059060yui_3_2_0_20_1335032553294582"><br></div>Unmount your partitions and write the uboot into the SD card: dd if=uboot_image of=/dev/sdx bs=1024 skip=8<br>
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The usename is root, and the password is password. The image has ssh
server pre-installed, so anyone who uses is might want want to find the invocation that
regenerates the ssh keys. The image itself is a wheezy armhf image.<br><br>It will be interesting to see if my dropbox public folders get killed with the smaller image and the lack of working X. I will stick it on that ftp server later.<br><br><br><br><br> </div> </div> </div></body></html>