Manual Debian
From Openmoko
This page is to explain how to run debian armel port on neo1973. This instructions are likely to work on freerunner, too.
1. (optional) install known good kernel
wget http://rabenfrost.net/celtune/uImage-2.6.24+svnr4194-r4165-r4-neo1973.bin ./dfu-util -d 0x1457:0x5119 -a kernel -R -D ./uImage-2.6.24+svnr4194-r4165-r4-neo1973.bin
2.1. (option #1) debootstrap your own armel rootfs
debootstrap your rootfs on debian or ubuntu
debootstrap --verbose --arch armel --foreign sid ./armel-chroot http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/
Format your sd card appropriately. I'm using an 8GB shcd card here.
umount /media/card mkfs.ext3 /dev/mmcblk0p1 mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /media/card
copy the armel chroot to your device by tar'ing it to preserve symbolic link cycles (https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1059 <= WONTFIX)
tar -C ./armel-chroot/ -c . | ssh root@192.168.0.202 tar -C /media/card -xv
ssh to your device and execure the following commands (just copypaste everything below)
echo "nameserver 192.168.0.200" > /media/card/etc/resolv.conf echo "127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost" > /media/card/etc/hosts echo "fix-gta01" > /media/card/etc/hostname echo -e "auto lo\n\ iface lo inet loopback\n\ auto usb0\n\ iface usb0 inet static\n\ address 192.168.0.202\n\ netmask 255.255.255.0\n\ network 192.168.0.0\n\ gateway 192.168.0.200\n\ up echo nameserver 192.168.0.200 >/etc/resolv.conf" > /media/card/etc/network/interfaces
now chroot into your armel rootfs and finish the install
chroot /media/card /debootstrap/debootstrap --second-stage echo "deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian sid main" > /etc/apt/sources.list apt-get update apt-get install openssh-server