Wow.. old post...
I am *really* interested to know what became of this. Do I understand correctly that you got a system working where you could just apt-get install stuff on the iliad, scotty1024?
I have seen teasers scattered all over the place about a running emacs on iliad, and here a working apt-get. Anybody have more info about this?
Currently my interest is in getting perl running on the iliad (and maybe a common lisp implementation, just for fun

, and being able to just do apt-get install perl would be great. But also a real bash shell, and a ton of other apps that are available to debian at the moment already.