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Hi all.

I installed:

http://www.glomationinc.com/download/debian-lenny-arm-base.tgz

on my board but I read that debian-arm platform is now deprecated.

Does someone has successfully installed the armel port (if exists) of Debian on this board?

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Below are the steps that can be used to build a Debian file system on a ARM platform,

1) Download debootstrap-udeb package from Debian website
 wget http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/debootstrap/debootstrap-udeb_0.3.3.2etch1_arm.udeb
unpack it with the following command,
    dpkg-deb -x debootstrap-udeb_0.3.3.2etch1_arm.udeb /
to install the bootstrap package

2) Mount a clean partition on /mnt and run the bootstrap program to install base package
   debootstrap etch /mnt http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/

3) edit /etc/inittab to setup serial line
for example,
T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyAM0 57600 vt100



Substitute the Debian distribution version with the one to be installed in step 1 and 2.

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Ok I managed to get it!

The procedure is:

• Get http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/debootstrap/debootstrap_1.0.23.tar.gz
  
• Read README and install debootstrap
  
• Run debootstrap --arch=armel --foreign stable /mnt/mountedusborssd http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/
  
• Compile new kernel for armel platform, using the GESC documentation but with emdebian armel toolchain.
  
  I used the following packages:
  
  libc6-armel-cross libc6-dev-armel-cross binutils-arm-linux-gnueabi gcc-4.3-arm-linux-gnueabi g++-4.3-arm-linux-gnueabi
  
  from apt source:
  
  deb http://www.emdebian.org/debian/ lenny main
  
  
• Create /dev/ttyS0, set a getty to ttyS0 and boot it on GESC9260 to run "second stage" (read some more documentation for this).
  
• Make a lot of manual configuration to configure the just bootstrapped debian (you'll found a lot of guides online).
  

more complicate as stated, but it works.